80 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 195 5 



Cataloging included 471 analytics, 219 books and pamphlets, and 35 

 titles recataloged and reclassified. A total of 3,188 cards was added 

 to the catalog and shelf lists. The specialized nature of the library 

 and its unique importance for the study of Oriental art are under- 

 scored by the fact that less than 10 percent of the necessary cards are 

 available at the Library of Congi*ess. 



Six bibliogi'aphies were prepared in response to outside requests, 

 and two were made for Freer Gallery publications which were also 

 indexed by the librarian. In all, 426 items were bound, labeled, 

 repaired, or mounted. 



Since December 2, 1954, the library has been closed to the public 

 for extensive reconstruction, including the installation of steel stacks 

 and special folio shelves. Rearrangement under way and to be com- 

 pleted at the time of reshelving involves discontinuing the old 

 geographical divisions and shelving of all Western material by classi- 

 fication, and moving all periodicals from an obscure closet into the 

 library. Orientalia will be cataloged and shelved separately as before, 

 but all have been marked with special insignia for ready identifica- 

 tion. These changes will greatly increase the librarian's control over 

 her material and facilitate its use by the staff and the public. 



PUBLICATIONS 

 Four publications were issued by the Gallery as follows : 



Ars Orientalis, The arts of Islam and the East, vol. I, 267 pp. -}- 93 collotype pis. 

 and text illus. ( Smithsonian Piibl. 4187. Published jointly with the Depart- 

 ment of Fine Arts, University of Michigan. Two members of the staff 

 contributed to this issue.) 

 Gettens, Rutherford J., and Usilton, Bertha M. : Abstracts of technical studies in 

 art and archaeology, 194.3-1952. 408 pp. Occasional Papers, vol. 2, No. 2. 

 (Smithsonian Publ. 4176.) 

 The Freer Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution. Revised edition, 16 



pp. + 9 halftone illustrations and 3 plans. (Smithsonian Publ. 4185.) 

 Annotated outline of the history of Japanese art. Revised edition. (Multi- 

 graphed. ) 



Papers by staff members appeared in outside publications as 

 follows : 



Wenley, A. G. : A spray of bamboo, by Wu Ch^n, in Archives of the Chinese Art 

 Society of America, vol. VIII, 1954. 



Pope, J. A. : Blue-and-white in London, in Far Eastern Ceramic Bulletin, vol. VI, 

 No. 2, serial No. 26, 1954. 



. Communication on Bahrami's paper on Chinese porcelains, in Far East- 

 ern Ceramic Bulletin, vol. VI, No. 4, serial No. 28, 1954. 



The art of Gandhara, in Baltimore Museum of Art News, No. 18, 1955. 



Ettinghausen, R. : The "snake-eating stag" in the East, in Late Classical and 

 Medieval Studies in honor of Albert Mathias Friend, Jr. Princeton, 1955. 



. D. S. Rice, The baptistere de St. Louis, Paris, 1954, reviewed in The 



Muslim World, vol. 44, No. 1. 



