8 
THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
ble for the installation of paintings have been obtained. Al- 
though ample in the beginning, these accommodations were soon 
outgrown, and it has been necessary to provide for the overflow in 
various other places, the few pieces of sculpture acquired being 
displayed in the north lobby and the rotunda. The importance 
of giving early consideration to the erection of a building especially 
designed for the National Gallery of Art is thus strongly empha- 
sized, for without appropriate and adequate facilities for promot- 
ing the objects with which it has been entrusted, further progress 
and the encouragement of benefactions will be difficult. Most 
gratifying is the recent decision of the donor to begin the construc- 
tion of the building to house the Freer collection as soon as the 
plans can be perfected. 
The objects enumerated in the several catalogues beginning on 
page 92 of this volume are such only as have been specifically re- 
ceived and accepted for the Gallery. Articles of more or less 
esthetic merit are also to be found in other branches of the National 
Museum, as in archeology, ethnology, history, textiles, ceramics 
and religious ceremonial. 
The personnel of the advisory committee for the Gallery, named 
on page 21, remains the same except that the office of chairman, 
left vacant by the lamented death of Francis Davis Millet, is now 
filled by Mr. C. Y. Turner, of Washington and Baltimore. 
January, 1916 
