Fogg Art Museum Report.

The annual report of the Fogg Art Museum, issued by the Director, Professor Charles H. Moore, shows that there have been a number of important accessions to the Museum during the past year.

From Mr. E. W. Forbes '95 the Museum has received as an indefinite loan two Italian tempera pictures on panels: a "Madonna and Child" by the early Venetian master Bartolommeo Vivarini, and a "Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John," by Perellino, a follower of the Florentine master, Giuchi. A number of examples of the art of the early English school of water-color painters have also been placed upon exhibition.

The more important additions to the Gray collection of engravings are two etchings by Rembrant and four plates of Turner's "Liber Studiorum" in the etched state, and also a portrait of Gustav Kruell engraved on wood by himself, presented by Professor C. E. Norton. A large number of plates, including the so-called Richmondshire series, have been presented to the Museum collection by Mr. F. Bullard '86.

To the collection of the Department of Fine Arts, permanently deposited in the Museum, two plates in the etched state of Turner's "Liber Studiorum" have been added. The prints are entitled "Hind Head Hill" and "Twickenham."

The Museum has made during the past year 5,981 additions to its collection of photographs, including the following groups of subjects: medieval German architecture; medieval, Renaissance and modern Italian architecture and sculpture; ancient painting; Renaissance painting, chiefly Italian. The whole number of photographs now in the collection is 36,930, and of these 31,475 are catalogued and arranged in cases.

A number of books, purchased with the income of the Searle fund, have been added to the Museum library and additions have also been made to the library of the Randall collection by purchase from the income of the Randall fund.

The most pressing needs of the Museum, Professor Moore states, are first, the addition to the building, of two properly lighted wings, which would cost $50,000 and $40,000, respectively; second, an additional endowment for the larger expenses of administration and for the purchase of desirable works of art; third, a more adequate provision for small incidental expenses.