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study room 2; the construction of storage cases for Chinese and Japa- 

 nese panel pictures, for pottery, and for stone sculpture. Still under 

 way is the rebuilding of the dais in gallery 18 ; the recoloring of the 

 gallery walls throughout; the construction of storage bags and boxes 

 for Japanese screens. 



Early in June, the Institution formally and with certain reserva- 

 tions accepted the building from the architect, Mr. Charles A. Piatt. 



Thanks are due Mr. Stephen Warring, to whose care in packing 

 and unpacking the collection may be attributed the transference of 

 the whole from Detroit to the storages of the Freer Gallery without 

 a mishap; Prof. Edward S. Morse for his expert opinion on the 

 Japanese pottery; Mr. H. E. Thompson for his skillful work of 

 restoration on the Whistler oil paintings; and, above all, Miss 

 Ehoades and Miss Guest, both of the staff, without whose constant 

 devotion to the Freer Gallery and its every interest, most of the 

 progress here recorded would have been impossible. 



Respectfully submitted. 



J. E. Lodge, 

 -Curator, Freer Gallery of Art. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 



Secretary ', Smithsonian Institution. 



