REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 



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made upon the inner resources of the gallery by that smaller section 

 of the public which has an especial interest in the field of art rep- 

 resented in the collect ion,s. It is interesting to note the steady 

 growth of this group with its demands analyzed in Figure 3. 



FIELD WOKK 



Owing in part to conditions in China and in part to the large 

 amount of material already secured for study, Mr. C. W. Bishop, as- 

 sociate curator, was, as stated in the report for last j^ear, temporarily 

 recalled to the gallery. He traveled by w^ay of Egypt and the prin- 

 cipal western European countries, where he visited collections and 

 sites of importance and held discussions with a number of promi- 

 nent archeologists. Since his arrival in Washington he has been en- 

 gaged principally in working up the material collected during his 

 four years and a half in the field. 







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Figure 2 



Dr. C. Li and Mr. K. Z. Tung, the Chinese members of the field 

 staff, were left in China in order to maintain the contacts already 

 established with various Chinese scientific bodies and to prepare the 

 way for further field work at an early date. In both these tasks they 

 have achieved gratifying success. Negotiations are at present being 

 conducted with the newly-founded bureau of scientific research, an 

 organization whose character and aims correspond somewhat closely 

 to those of the Smithsonian Institution, for cooperation in archeo- 

 logical investigation. 



Early in the present summer Doctor Li was called to the irallery 

 to discuss future field work and to complete, with the aid of the facil- 

 ities now available in Washington, his report on his excavations in 

 southwestern Shansi Province. He plans, upon his return to China, 

 to establish a field station as a semipei'manent base of operations, thus 

 permitting the uninterrupted prosecution of excavation for much 

 longer periods. 



