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THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART.

Care of the Collections.

works by displacing inferior examples. Space also becomes available at times due to the withdrawal of loan collections by their owners.

The following paragraphs recite certain matters pertaining to the work of the Gallery during the year:

Mr. Francis D. Millet, Chairman of the Smithsonian Advisory Committee for the National Gallery of Art, lost his life in the wreck of the Titanic, April 15, 1912, and his place was filled during the year by the appointment of Mr. C. Y. Turner, Director of Maryland Institute Schools of Art and Design, Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Turner's appointment is dated April 15, 1913.

There are certain features of Gallery affairs which do not directly concern the curator but as Secretary of