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print can be obtained as gifts, except upon rare occasions and at long intervals. Such specimens must be bought, and it is moreover necessary that the curator should be in a position to secure them whenever and wherever they offer. Really desirable specimens rarely have to wait for a purchaser, and such opportunities must therefore be quickly seized when they occur.

While, as has been pointed out, the principal aim of the Section of Graphic Arts is to represent art as an industry, there are yet other possibilities within its grasp that should not be lost sight of, and of which it may, indeed, be said that they are the natural outgrowth of its activity. The attempt to illustrate the technical processes of ^[[graphic]] art and the historical development of these processes, unavoidably leads, as has already been shown, to the formation of a collection embodying the results reached, that is to say, to a collection of drawings, printings, and prints. It will probably be advisable to restrict the acquisition of drawings and paintings, for the present at least, to only such examples as are absolutely necessary for the elucidation of strictly technical details. There is less call, however, for such