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ical or esthetic value. Twenty-six inscriptions were submitted for 

 translation. Reports on these things were made to owners or senders. 



THE LIBRARY 



During the year the library has been increased by 254 volumes, 32 

 unbound jDeriodicals, and 41 pamphlets. In addition, 122 bulletins, 

 reports, and catalogues were received. 



Since the date of the last report the cataloguing of the library has 

 been completed. Indexing of foreign periodical publications, includ- 

 ing bound volumes of Kokka and T^oung Pao^ has been begun. 



LECTURES 



Lectures offered to the public during the past year have been as 

 follows : 



In November — A series of lectures with lantern slides on The 

 Literary Backgrounds of Islamic Painting in Persia, by Sir E. Deni- 

 son Ross, of the School of Oriental Studies, London — 



November 21 : The Epics. 

 November 23: Timurid Literature. 

 November 25 : Safavid Literature. 



On Friday, January 22, an illustrated lecture on the excavations 

 at the Tell Halaf in northern Syria, entitled " The Wonders of the 

 Tell Halaf," by the excavator. Dr. Baron Max von Oppenheim. 



On Tuesday, March 1, an illustrated lecture on The Ancient Art 

 of Siberia, by Dr. Alfred Salmony, director of the Museum fiir 

 Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne. 



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. 



The total attendance of visitors coming in at the main entrance 

 was 122,940— week days, 78,247; Sundays, 44,693. This year the 

 average Sunday attendance was more than three times that of an 

 average week day, 859 being the average for Sunday and 251 that 

 for a week day. As before, the highest monthly total attendances 

 were reached in April (14,655) and August (12,653) ; the lowest 

 attendance was, as usual, in December (6,573), 



The total lecture attendance was 825, with an average of 165. To- 

 gether with visitors admitted to the offices on Mondays (15), the 

 total attendance at the gallery during the year was 123,780, 



There were 1,901 visitors to the offices during the year. Of these, 

 91 came for general information, 268 to see objects in storage, 37 to 

 examine the building and installation, 142 to study in the library, 

 187 to see the facsimiles of the Washington manuscripts, 35 to get 



