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of Graphic Arts the remains of the Marsh Collections, and of an appeal to Congress for a special appropriation for the purchase of the Sewall Collection of engravings, etc. It is my duty, also, to call attention to the fact that a logical and systematic development of this section must remain an impossibility, so long as the appropriation for purchases is not measurably increased. During the period embraced by this report, there were expended for purchases for the Section of Graphic Arts only about $175. The number of accessions, and the condition of the collections in general, demonstrate, indeed, that artists and publishers and other friends of the museum are ever ready to aid it. But such aid can [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[hardly]] be regulated, and can but rarely be turned into the most desirable channels. The growth of the collections is, therefore, spasmodic, and - still worse - unsymmetrical and not strictly according to a well digested plan. There are many things needed which can only be bought, and others which must