204 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1964 



Since many instructors at the university Oriental Art courses 

 depend on the library for supplementary material and visual aids, 

 the importance of the slide collection has markedly increased. The 

 library acquired 1,412 new slides, and 2,778 were bound, labeled, 

 classified, or repaired. Slide loans totaled 2,962, of which 487, or 

 17.5 percent, were for the use of the Galleiy staff in their lectures. 



There were 434 requests for bibliographic information by telephone 

 and letter. Visitors were frequent: 686 scholars and students who 

 were not members of the Freer staff used the library resources, 5 saw 

 and studied the Washington Manuscripts, and 6 came to see the 

 library equipment and facilities. 



After years of searching, two copies of Shih-chu-chai shu-hua p'u 

 {Painting iiianual from the Ten Bamhoo Studio) were acquired. The 

 larger copy is midated, and has 181 colored illustrations on 45 canon 

 folds, while the second copy has the illustrated text in eight pen, pub- 

 lished in Shanghai and dated 1879. 



Another rare and valuable book, acquired for the documentation 

 of Moronobu's works, is Byohu kakemono edzukushi {Designs for 

 screens and kakemono), Tokyo, 1701 (first edition published in 1682). 

 This work clearly establishes that Moronobu was familiar with, and 

 followed, other teclmiques and schools of art besides Ukiyoe. 



The following gifts deserve special mention because of their out- 

 standing quality. Kokuho henshu-iin {National treasures of Japan), 

 Tokyo, Mainichi Shimbun-sha, 1963 — , is a folio set eventually to 

 be complete in six volumes; it is made available to us through the 

 "Weedon gift. Another set, Nikuhitsu Ukiyoe {Ukiyoe painting), 

 Tokyo, Kodansha, 1962-63, two folio volumes, is the gift of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Felix Juda. The staff continues to be generous with their 

 writings and the literature sent to them. 



Holdings of Wliistler correspondence, 630 leaves in all, were lami- 

 nated by the Archival Restoration Associates, Inc. 



Mrs. Bertha M. Usilton, librarian since 1944, retired on June 30; 

 Mrs. Constance B. Olsen will take charge of the library with the be- 

 ginning of the new fiscal year. 



PUBUCATIONS 



Two publications were issued by the Gallery as follows : 



Ara Orientalis, Vol, V. 19 articles in English, French, or German, 18 book 

 reviews, 1 bibliography, 2 notes, 3 memorials. 354 pp., 206 plates, text 

 illustrations. (Smithsonian Institution Publication 4540.) 



Oriental Studies, No. 6 : Armenian Manuscripts in the Freer Gallery of Art, by 

 Sirarpie Der Nersessian, 145 pp., 108 plates. (Smithsonian Institution 

 Publication 4516.) 



