All the necessary preparations for receiving the Gray collection of engravings are being made in the upper room of the Fogg Art Museum. The new cases, which have been made of quartered oak and lined with Spanish cedar, now await the engravings.

This valuable collection, which is now to be permanently settled in the Fogg Art Museum, was loaned by Harvard College to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts over twenty-one years ago. It comprises the original engravings by some of the great German and Italian artists, the most important being the impressions of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. These original works, which are of immense value to the student, will afford a great chance for intimate study of the Fine Arts. It is the first really important group of engravings or photographs of intrinsic value that the Museum has ever received.

Besides these engravings, a large number of photographs have been received from the German School and the German Institute of Athens, for the reproducing of Greek Sculpture. A collection from India representing the life and customs of that country has also been received this summer. An important addition to the statuary is a cast relief from the Arch of Trajar, at Beneventum. This is a cast of the Graeco Roman relief sculpture.