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Smithsonian Institution  1265

CANAL ZONE BIOLOGICAL AREA 

The Secretary reported last year that under Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1946, the President had placed under direction of the Smithsonian Institution a biological laboratory called the Canal Zone Biological Area, located in the Canal Zone, Panamá.

The Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the present year (1948) includes proper authority to the Institution to operate the laboratory, and there will be available from appropriated funds about $5,000 for it. This will be used in renovation and repair which has gotten behind during the period of the war. 

The Secretary visited the laboratory in March and April 1947. Mr. Clark, Fiscal Officer for the Institution, was there in October 1947, to check over methods of accounting and inventory to insure that these meet the most recent requirements of the General Accounting Office. 

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN ART COMMISSION 

The Secretary made the following report:

The twenty-fifth annual meeting was held on December 2, 1947. Eleven members were present, and, acting s the Advisory Committee on the acceptance of works of art which has been offered to the National Collection of Fine Arts since the last meeting, recommended the following works for acceptance for the National Collection of Fine Arts: 

Marble bust of Capt. John Ericcson (1803-1889) by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, N.A. (1848-1907), Marble cut by Jonathan Scott Harley for Augustus Saint-Gaudens who modified the bust by Horace Kneeland which is now in the National Museums, Stockholm, Sweden. Bequest of Geogiana Wells Sargent. (For the National Portrait Gallery)

A.W.