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and 327 by purchase. Among the outstanding purchases were 

 Nikon shucho shina-kodo seika (selected relics of ancient Chinese 

 bronzes from collections in Japan), compiled by Sueji Umehara and 

 issued in a limited edition in six volumes, 1960-61 ; Shosoin Homotsu 

 (treasures of the Sh6s5in), which is to be completed in 1962 in three 

 folio volumes; Figure 'prints of Old Japan^ a pictorial pageant of ac- 

 tors and courtesans of the eighteenth century reproduced from the 

 prints in the collection of Marjorie and Edwin Grabhoi'n^ with an 

 introduction by Harold P. Stern, San Francisco, 1959, Xero- 

 graphic copies of microfilms of two rare manuscripts were made. (1) 

 Toban shbnpin zukan (album of sword guard masterpieces). This 

 illustrated manuscript written in 1783 (De Rosny's catalogue) and 

 never published is now in the Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm, Nor- 

 denskjold Collection, No. 525. In 1912 Henri L. Joly made a copy 

 and translation and issued privately 15 copies, none of which has 

 been located. (2) Wu GUi-chen shu-hua chi (record of calligraphy 

 and painting seen by the author, Wu Ch'i-chen), written in mid-17th 

 century giving the descriptions of the works, comments, and infor- 

 mation on the collections owning them, with the dates on which he 

 saw them. Six volumes of text with one volume of catalogue or in- 

 dex. A copy of the manuscript is in the Ssu-k'-u-ch'-iian-shu (the 

 good repository of manuscripts of Chinese books) but the book was 

 never printed ( ? ) . The copy in the Gunnar Martin Collection, Stock- 

 holm, was presumably copied from the /Ssu-k^u-ch^iian-shu manuscript, 

 and is the only copy outside China ( ? ) . The book is of particular 

 importance because the author saw many of the important collections 

 of his day and records their contents carefully. Many of the paint- 

 ings he describes are still extant in the Ku-kung Collection, the Freer 

 Gallery of Art, and other collections. Two outstanding gifts were 

 Chinese painting, by James F. Cahill, Geneva, Skira, 1960 (gift of 

 author) ; Persian painting by Basil Gray, Geneva, Skira, 1961 (gift 

 of publisher) . 



The year's record of cataloging included a total of 967 entries of 

 which 534 analytics were made, and 197 new titles of books, pamphlets 

 and scrolls were cataloged. Only one-ninth of the cards required 

 were available in printed cards from the Library of Congress. 



The current state of the cataloging has given opportunity for 

 special projects. Mrs. Hogenson began indexing the correspondence 

 of Charles Lang Freer. Mrs. Usilton prepared a subject index for 

 Technical Studies in the Field of Fine Arts, vols. 1-10; revised and 

 enlarged the Bibliography for the Chinese Outline; and continued 

 to serve as assistant editor of IIC Abstracts: Abstracts of the Tech- 

 nical Literature of Archaeology and the Fine Arts. 



There were 162 requests for bibliographic information by tele- 

 phone and letter. In all, 515 scholars and students who were not 



