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[[preprinted]] SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 692 [[/preprinted]] [[preprinted in left margin]] MADE BY BAKER-VAWTER CO. [[/preprinted in left margin]] belonging to the United States, which may be in the city of Washington, in whosesoever custody they may be, shall be delivered to such persons as may be authorized by the Board of Regents to receive them, and shall be so arranged and classified in the building erected for the institution as best to facilitate the examination and study of them". The Secretary also brought to the notice of the Board that in 1903, Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston provided in her will that her collection of old masters should be deposited in the National Gallery of Art, and a friendly suit was brought by the executors which resulted in the following decision of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (Equity No.25160,Doc.):- "That there has been established by the United States of America in the City of Washington a National Art Gallery x x x x and that the said National Art Gallery is the National Art Gallery established by the United States of America at, and in connection with, the Smithsonian Institution located in the District of Columbia and described in the Act of Congress entitled An Act to establish the Smithsonian Institution for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge Among Men, approved August 10, 1846, 9 Stat. L. 103 (Title LXXIII, Section 5579 R.S.,U.S.) and the subsequent Acts of Congress amendatory thereof". THE DOGNIN COLLECTION OF MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. The Secretary went on ot say that over a year ago, Mr. Paul Dognin, of Wimille, France, offered to sell for $50,000 his collection of moths and butterflies, consisting of more than 82,000 specimens including not less than 3,000 types of American species described by Dognin and about 250 types, almost entirely American, of other describers. Certain persons stood ready to buy it for the British Museum. As American has the lead in economic problems connected with entomology, the collections of this country should be the most complete of any country. Accordingly, Dr. William Schaus, Honorary Assistant Curator in the Division of Insects of the U. S. National Museum, undertook, with the sanction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and of Dr. L. O. Howard, to raise by private subscriptions the sum required to purchase the Dognin collection for the National Museum. This he accomplished, and the collection has reached the [[initialed]]CDW[[/initialed]]
