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ing cards typed and filed, 4,096; binding, labeling, repairing, and 

 mounting, 496. Mr. Freer's letters from Canfield, Dewing, Metcalf, 

 Thayer, Trj'on, and other artists represented in the collection were 

 arranged chronologically and listed on cards which were filed; this 

 project is continuing and these letters will be indexed in the future. 

 Cataloging was completed of the collection of rare books purchased 

 by Mr. Freer in the Orient; and two bibliographies were prepared 

 for publication. Work continued on the major project of indexing 

 botli the English and Japanese editions of the Japanese periodical 

 Kokka. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Five publications of the Gallery were issued during the year : 



Ettinghausen, Richard : Studies in Muslim Iconography, I. The Unicorn. Occa- 

 sional Papers, vol. I, No. 3. S. I. Publ. 3993. September 1950. 



Freer Gallery of Art Pamphlet, revised edition. September 1950. 



Gallery Book VIII— The Art of India. October 1950. 



Steindorff, George : A Royal Head from Ancient Egypt. Occasional Papers, vol. 

 I, No. 5. S. I. Publ. 4022. February 1951. 



The Whistler Peacock Room. An illustrated pamphlet containing a brief 

 description and history of the Peacock Room decorated by James A. McNeill 

 Whistler. S. I. Publ. 4024. April 1951. 



Papers by staff members in outside publications were as follows: 



Pope, John A. : Ming blue-and-white at Philadelphia. Oriental Art, vol. 3, No. 

 1 (1950), pp. 21-27. 



Selected Chinese antiquities from the collection of Gustav Adolf, Crov?n 



Prince of Sweden, by Nils Palmgren. (A review.) The Far Eastern Quar- 

 terly, vol. 10, No. 1 (Nov. 1950), pp. 85-89. 



■ Letter from the Near East. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 13, 



Nos. 3 and 4 (Dec. 1950), pp. 558-564. 



Wenley, A. G. : Selected Chinese antiquities from the collection of Gustav 



Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden, by Nils Palmgren. (A review.) The Journal 



of the American Oriental Society, vol. 69, No. 3 (Oct./Dec. 1949), pp. 238-239. 



REPRODUCTIONS 



During the year the photographic laboratory made 3,809 prints, 

 433 glass negatives, and 189 lantern slides. 



BUILDING 



The cabinet shop has been kept busy with the usual work of making 

 necessary equipment, doing repair work on the collections and mak- 

 ing minor repairs on the building. A temporary painter made a 

 small start on the long-accumulated backlog of work in the redecora- 

 tion of the exhibition galleries and painting other parts of the 

 building. 



