12 The New-York Historical Society very old, some more than 25 years, and for that reason should be remade. Few are colored, and on the whole, the collection lacks completeness in any of the subjects involved; it should be greatly enlarged, colored and brought up to date not only to take care of our own needs but to permit its use by a lending service to other educational programs. Except for the W.P. A. Field Activity Service carried on with school children, the Society has but little docent service. Such groups as apply for conducted tours of the building are guided by the Director, Art and Museum Curators and chiefly by the Public Relations Department, according to the special or general interests expressed. The Institute of Fine Arts of New York University again brought its class interested in museum construction and administration to our building, and the Director explained all the details of the construction of our new building as well as the methods employed in the museum and related departments. The Society would like to enlarge the scope of its instruction, such as this course, and the one given by the Art Curator to the School Art League of New York but it is hardly to be expected that such instruction can be provided without a grant from one of the educational foundations to finance it; otherwise the Society would need to sacrifice its own work to do it. It must be remembered that for one hundred and thirty-five years the Society could not afford the services of curators such as we have today, and the backlog of work to be done in cataloguing the art, museum and library collections is a great task, to which we are primarily devoted, at the same time meeting the requirements of our members and the public who come or write to the Society. The catalogue of our American portraits with 400 illustrations is now in press, the first of a series of publications contemplated. Appended to this report is an addenda comprising a compilation of the works in our library printed by William Bradford, New York's first printer, who came here in 1693 from Philadelphia.