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The Smithsonian Institution during the year transferred to the Museum its collection of portraits of [[strikethrough]] ancient and [[/strikethrough]] American and foreign scientists and men prominent in political or civil life.  This series nearly 2500 engravings and photographs [[strikethrough]] which will be and will [[/strikethrough]] and will be a valuable nucleus for the formation of a National Gallery of portraits of representative men.