114 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1962 



for dealers, 1,785 ; for other museums, 5,839. In all, 440 photographs 

 were examined, and 920 Oriental language inscriptions were trans- 

 lated for outside individuals and institutions. By request, 24 groups 

 totaling 489 persons met in the exhibition galleries for docent service 

 by the staff members. Five groups totaling 20 persons were given 

 docent service by staff members in the storage rooms. 



Among the visitors were 61 distinguished foreign scholars or per- 

 sons holding official positions in their own countries who came here 

 under the auspices of the Department of State to study museum ad- 

 ministration and practices in this country. 



During the j^ear the technical laboratory can'ied on the following 

 activities : 



Objects examined by various methods including microscopic, microchemical, 

 X-ray diffraction, ultraviolet light, spectrochemical analysis, and specific grav- 

 ity determination : 



Freer objects examined 140 



Outside objects examined 113 



The following projects were undertaken by the laboratory during 

 the year : 



1. For a period of 2 weeks in October and November 1961, Miss E. West 

 worked as a guest of the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, 

 New York University, where she continued the spectrochemical analyses of in- 

 scribed Chinese ceremonial bronzes in the Freer collections. 



2. R. J. Gettens continued as editor and Miss West as assistant editor of IIC 

 Abstracts published by the International Institute for Conservation of Historic 

 and Artistic Works, London, England. 



3. Continued systematic collection of data on technology of ancient copper 

 and bronze in the Far East. 



4. Continued analysis by wet chemical methods of Chinese bi'ouzes in the 

 Freer collections. 



By invitation the following lectures were given outside the Gallery 

 by staff members (illustrated miless otherwise noted) : 



1961 



September 13. Dr. Pope, at the College Art Association, New TorK City, 



"Collecting Oriental Art in America." Attendance, 250. 



September IS. Dr. Stern, at the Kunstindustrie Museum, Copenhagen, Den- 



mark, "Popular Painting in Tokugawa Japan." Attend- 

 ance, 100. 



September 25. Di*. Cahill, at the Society for Asian Art, San Francisco, 



Calif., "Some Distinctions in Chinese Paintings." At- 

 tendance, 100. 



September 25. Mr. Gettens, at the International Institute for Conservation 



of Historic and Artistic Works, conference in Rome, Italy, 

 "Museum Climate." Attendance, 190. 



September 26. Mr. Gettens, at the International Institute for Conservation 



of Historic and Artistic Works, conference in Rome, 

 "Proposal for a Handbook on Painting Material." At- 

 tendance, 190. 



