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At the request of the Secretary, Dr. Wetmore explained the proposed building program, which includes two new wings to the present Natural History building, at a cost of approximately $3,000,000 each; a building for the History Collections, at $7,500,000; and a building for the Museum of Engineering and Industry, at $10,000,000, besides several buildings of moderate cost aggregating about $1,000,000 for the Zoological Park.

After full discussion, the following resolution was adopted:

Resolved; That the Permanent Committee be authorized to formulate a program to be presented to the Bureau of the Budget, and subsequently transmitted to Congress, comprehending the proposed additional buildings needed by the Smithsonian Institution.

The Secretary added that he had suggested to the Chairman of the Permanent Committee a scheme for a department of publicity and also in regard to the award of certain medals which the chairman might think fit to bring up later in the meeting.

In connection with the above report the Secretary spoke somewhat more fully in regard to the subjects mentioned, explaining the scope and value of the Gellatly Collection, worth several millions of dollars; that it was now housed in the Heckscher Building in New York, where under the terms of a lease it must stay for about four years; that Congress had consented to the submission of estimates in the Smithsonian budget for the expenses of maintenance and housing of the collection during this period, and that the first of these estimates had been approved by the Bureau of the Budget.

With regard to the Ranger Bequest, the Secretary explained that these pictures were acquired through a fund in the charge of the National Academy of Design, and were distributed to various galleries throughout the country, with the understanding that under the conditions of the will, after ten years had elapsed after the death of the artists the National Gallery of Art could select such works as it desired for permanent exhibition here. The present

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