82 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1956 



There were 1,866 visitors to the office for the following purposes : 



For general information 692 



To submit objects for examination 374 



To see staff members 133 



To take photographs in court or exhibition galleries 121 



To study in library *67 



To see building and installations 30 



To examine, purchase, or borrow slides 29 



To sketch in galleries 11 



To use Herzfeld Archive 1 



To see objects in storage : 



Far Eastern paintings and textiles 103 



Far Eastern metalwork 20 



Far Eastern pottery 39 



Far Eastern jade, lacquer, wood, ivory, etc 33 



Near Eastern painting, miniatures, MSS 89 



Near Eastern metalwork 8 



Near Eastern pottery 11 



Near Eastern glass, bookbindings, etc 8 



Christian Art (Washington MSS.) 59 



American Art 183 



♦Library closed after Dec. 2, 1954, 



AUDITORIUM 

 The series of illustrated lectures was continued as follows : 



195i 

 October 20. Soame Jenyus, British Museum, "Kakiemon Porcelains of 



Japan." Attendance, 123. 

 November 16. Dr, Schuyler Cammann, University Museum, Philadelphia. 



"Symbolism in Chinese Bronze Mirrors," Attendance, 128. 



19SS 



January 18, George N. Kates. "Chinese Household Furniture," Attendance, 

 201. 



Febniary 15. Prof. Sirarpie der Nersessian, Dumbarton Oaks. "Armenian 

 Illuminated Manuscripts in the Freer Gallery of Art." At- 

 tendance, 128. 



March 15. Dr. George C. Miles, American Numismatic Society. "Arabic 



Inscriptions in Art and History." Attendance, 96. 



April 19. Eliot O'Hara, "Oriental Brushwork." (Motion pictures.) At- 



tendance, 320. 



In addition, one staff member gave a lecture in the auditorium : 



1955 



March 16. Dr. Ettinghausen addressed members of the American Associa- 



tion of University Women, Arlington Branch, and others on 

 Near Eastern art in the Freer Gallery. Attendance, 45. 



