REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 25 



Gallery IX Whistler oil paintings: landscapes and figures. 



Gallery X Water colors by Whistler and W. Homer. 



In all, 450 changes in exhibition were made during the year, dis- 

 tributed as follows: 



American paintings and prints, 126. 



Biblical manuscripts and paintings, 5. 



Chinese ceramics, 8. 



Chinese Jade, 24. 



Chinese sculpture, 2. 



East Indian manuscripts and paintings, 49. 



East Indian scuplture, 6. 



Japanese paintings, 35. 



Near Eastern book-bindings, 11. 



Near Eastern ceramics and glass, 40. 



Near Eastern manuscripts and paintings, 144. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Brown, W. Norman. The story of Kalaka, Smithsonian Institution, Freer 



Gallery of Art, Oriental Studies, No. 1, 1933. 

 Bishop, C. W. (ed.), with K. Huang, W. J. Chang, K. Z. Tung (joint authors). 



Excavations of a West Han Dynasty site, Shanghai, 1932. 



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 120,707; the total attendance for week days 78,247; the total 

 Sunday attendance, 38,990. The usual ratio between Sunday and 

 week-day attendance of 3 to 1, was maintained— the Sunday attend- 

 ance averaging 750, the week-day attendance, 251. The highest 

 monthly total attendances were reached in April (18,822) and August 

 (14,542); the lowest attendance was in December (4,929). 



The total attendance of visitors on Mondays was 25, making a 

 grand total attendance of 120,732. 



There were 2,082 visitors to the offices during the year. Of these, 

 118 came for general information, 280 to see objects in storage, 36 to 

 examine the building and installation, 185 to study in the library, 122 

 to see the facsimiles of the Washington Manuscripts, 36 to make 

 tracings and sketches from library books, 29 to get permission to make 

 photographs and sketches, 250 to examine or purchase photographs, 

 126 to submit objects for examination, 375 to see members of the staff. 

 Sevcnt3^-four groups, ranging from 1 to 80 persons (total, 329) were 

 given docent service upon request, and 18 groups, ranging from 6 to 

 13 persons (total, 171) were given instruction in the stud}^ rooms. 



