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BUILDING 



The work of repairing the building has included this year the 

 repainting of the corridors on the lower floor, and of Galleries III 

 and IV. The shop has been constantly occupied with the building of 

 equipment of various sorts, including new cases for bronze storage, 

 other exhibition cases and easels, and, interesting for its novelty, a 

 motor-driven machine for the unrolling of Chinese scrolls before a 

 moving-picture camera. The report of the superintendent, which 

 gives a detailed account of shop work, accompanies this report as 

 Appendix C (not printed). 



ATTENDANCE 



The gallery has been open every day, from 9 until 4.30 o'clock, 

 with the exception of Mondays, Christmas Day, and New Year's 

 Day. 



Tlie total attendance for the year was 120,651; the total attendance 

 for week days, 80,62-1; the total Sunday attendance, 40,027. The 

 average Sunday attendance is more than twice as great as that of 

 week days; 769 being the average Sunday attendance, and 310 the 

 average for week days. The two peaks of the year were reached in 

 August and April, with totals of 17,800 and 17,541, respectively; 

 the lowest attemlance was that of January, with a total of 5,561. 



The total number of visitors to the offices was 1,349. Of these, 

 156 came for general information; 172 to call upon upon members 

 of the staff; 308 to see objects in storage; 110 to submit objects for 

 examination; 16 to study the building and installation methods; 128 

 to study in the library; 95 to see the reproductions of the Washington 

 Manuscripts; 15 to nudce photographs and sketches, and 3 to make 

 tracings; while 212 came to ]Hirchase photographs. 



Sixteen groups, ranging from 1 to 30 persons, were given docent 

 service in the exhibition galleries, and 10 classes in groups ranging 

 from 3 to 8 persons were given instruction in the study room. 



Two lectures by eminent authorities in their respective fields were 

 given during the winter in the auditorium at the Freer Gallery. 

 These were as follows : 



January 6, 1930: Sir Aurel Stein on " The Caves of the Thousand 

 Buddhas"; illustrated. 



February 20, 1930: Dr. A. K. Coomaraswamy on "Indian Sculp- 

 ture: Intention and Development"; illustrated. 



On May 7, at 5 o'clock, in compliment to the Library of Congress, 

 the auditorium was opened to the society of "The Friends of Music 

 in the Library of Congress," for a concert of music written for 

 harpischord, piano, viola d'amore, and viola. 



