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and foreign artists, and several items of Austrian, Dutch, French, 

 Swedish, and Bohemian glass. Eight miniatures were acquired 

 through the Catherine Walden Myer fund. A gift in memory of 

 Alice Pike Barney (1800-1931), Washington artist, brought the In- 

 stitution a collection of 278 paintings, to be used as the nucleus of a 

 loan collection, and a fund of $15,000 to be used in maintaining the 

 collection and in organizing and circulating traveling art-appreciation 

 exhibits in this country. Sixteen special exhibits were held during 

 the year, one of the most noteworthy being the Centennial Anniversary 

 Exhibition of Paintings by Thomas Wilmer Dewing. Also of special 

 interest was the opening, on February 23, of the Albert Pinkham 

 Ryder Room of the John Gellatly Collection, exhibiting together the 

 17 Ryders in the collection. 



Freer Gallery of ^^25.— The Freer collections were enhanced by the 

 accession of Chinese paintings, pottery, and bronzes ; Japanese paint- 

 ings; and Persian metalwork. The cleaning and restoration of the 

 Whistler Peacock Room were completed, and the room was reopened 

 to the public on October 13, 1950. The staff members devoted their 

 time to the study of new accessions and of objects contemplated for 

 purchase and to general research in the field of Oriental and Islamic 

 art. Reports were made on 2,377 objects. Two members of the staff 

 spent parts of the year pursuing research projects in other countries : 

 Jolm A. Pope studied Chinese porcelain collections in Tehran and 

 Istanbul, and Dr. Richard Ettinghausen began a year's trip to the 

 Near East, studying in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Vis- 

 itors to the Gallery totaled 62,895 persons. The Gallery issued 

 five publications during the year and assisted in the publication of the 

 final number of At8 Islamica^ under Dr. Ettinghausen's editorship. 



Bureau of American Ethnology. — Ethnologists and arclieologist^ 

 on the Bureau staff continued their respective researches, Directoi- 

 Stirling in Panama, Dr. Collins in the Canadian Arctic, Dr. Harring 

 ton in Montana and Mexico, and Dr. Fenton in New Mexico, Cali- 

 fornia, and Montana. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., continued as 

 director of the River Basin Surveys, a unit of the Bureau now in its 

 sixth year of operation, and completed the collection of the first volume 

 of River Basin Surveys papers. Since the beginning of the River 

 Basin Surveys field work 2,894 archeological sites have been located 

 and recorded, and 545 of these have been recommended for excavation 

 or additional testing. This year's excavation work covered 20 reser- 

 voir areas in 10 States, with 26 excavating parties in the field. 



The Institute of Social Anthropology, an autonomous unit of tlie 

 Bureau financed through transfer of funds from the Department of 

 State, carried on its research and teaching programs in Brazil, Co- 

 lombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. 



