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by the artist, William F. Halsall, of Provincetown, Mass., whose death occurred November 10, 1919. The Gallery is deeply indebted to Mr. Hallsall for the gift of a superb painting "The Song of the Sea" on December 28, 1916, now in its place on the Gallery walls. Removal of the Battleship painting from the Gallery made it possible to restore to the Gallery the very large triptich, a fire etching by James William Fosdick, entitled "Adoration of Saint Joan of Arc," belonging to the Evans collection. Frequent changes and readjustments in installation of works were made. Labels were added where needed and the glass of most of the paintings was removed and cleaned. Toward the close of the year negatives were secured of all the important work of painting and sculpture in the Gallery and three prints of each were made and properly labeled. Much time was spend by the Curator in identifying the very large collection of plaster busts of prominent personages, mostly of past generations. Owing to the failure of the sculptor or of the custodian of casts in the early days to mark the busts a number cannot now be identified. It should be stated, however, that many of thee busts are of persons prominent in history, literature of science and are not as a whole of a degree of excellence permitting their assignment to the Gallery as works of art. The preparation of a catalogue of the Gallery bringing the record up to dat was carried to practical completion. The last issue of the catalogue, prepared by Assistant Secretary Rathbun, is dated 1916, and it is regarded as important that an interval of more than four years should