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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   1411

Regents. 

The Secretary reported on the Federal budget as approved by the Bureau of the Budget for the fiscal year 1956. The request had been reduced by $483,000 but $4,000,000 had been allowed. The request for enlarging the Natural History Building at an estimated cost of $5,730,000 was disallowed. The increase over the 1954 and 1955 budget requests for salaries and expenses was largely for nonrecurring building restoration items. 

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

On motion duly made, seconded and carried, it was 
VOTED that the income of the Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, together with such allotments from the unobligated funds as are needed to meet necessary expenses, be appropriated for the service of the Institution, to be expended by the Secretary, with the advice of the Executive Committee, with full discretion on the part of the Secretary as to items. 

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN ART COMMISSION 

The thirty-second annual meeting of the Smithsonian Art Commission was held on December 7, 1954. Fourteen members were present and, acting as the advisory committee on the acceptance of works of art which had been offered to the National Collection of Fine Arts since the last meeting, recommended the following works for acceptance:

Oil painting, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Europe, 1949, by Captain Sir Oswald Birley (1880-1952), offered by British Friends of the artist to the people of the United States, accepted for the National Portrait Gallery.
 
Oil painting, The Bathers by Robert Reid, N.A. (1862-1929), offered by Mrs. F. M. Wigmore, in memory of her husband, Francis Marion Wigmore, accepted for the National Collection of Fine Arts.