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CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA. 



Professor Henry Hyvernat reports that the recent transfer and 

 impending reorganization of the university museum make it impossible 

 to give a report at present. The university is said by Merrill to possess 

 a botanical collection of over 30,000 specimens, especially rich in plants 

 of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast, gathered by Professor 

 Edward L. Greene, and containing types of several hundred species 

 described by him. 



CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART. 



STAFF. Director, Frederick B. McGuire; Assistant director, C. 

 Powell Minnigerode; i clerk and stenographer, i janitor, i engineer, 

 i foreman, 7 guards and attendants and 3 char-women. 



ART. Sculpture, about 350 pieces, including original marbles, 

 casts of antique, renaissance, and modern sculpture, and 107 original 

 Barye bronzes; Prints and engravings, the St. Memim collection of 

 820 engraved portraits; Oil paintings, 28o; Water colors, 15; 

 Cloisonne, 6 pieces; Porcelains and glass, 15 pieces; Electrotype 

 reproductions, 141 pieces. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. The art gallery and school were founded 

 and endowed by the late William Wilson Corcoran in 1869, and opened 

 to the public in 1874 in the building on the corner of Pennsylvania 

 Avenue and 1 7th Street. The gallery was opened in the new building 

 in 1897.. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. Annual income : from endowment, $35,000; 

 from the art school, about $5000; from admission fees, about $3000. 



BUILDING. Erected in 1893-7, at a cost of $650,000, paid from 

 the endowment fund. About 35,000 square feet of floor space is 

 available for exhibition purposes, and about 4000 for offices, work- 

 rooms, etc. 



ADMINISTRATION. By a director, responsible to a board of 

 trustees. 



SCOPE. In connection with the gallery there is a free art school 

 with classes in drawing and painting from the cast, life, etc., also por- 

 trait and still-life classes. The students number about 300. Loan 

 collections and special exhibitions are placed in the gallery from time to 

 time. 



LIBRARY. 1000 volumes on the fine arts, used chiefly as a 

 reference library by members of the staff and students of the school. 



PUBLICATIONS, (i) Annual reports. (2) Catalogs of the perman- 

 ent collection. (3) Catalogs of special exhibitions. 



