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specific school or specific works of art. Beginning in December, 

 special tours for members of the armed forces were arranged for 

 Saturday afternoons. 



National Collection of Fine Arts — The necessary plans were made 

 during the year for the protection and evacuation of works of art 

 in the National Collection. Four oil paintings and a number of 

 other works of art were accepted for the collection by the Smith- 

 sonian Art Commission. Three miniatures were acquired through 

 the Catherine Waklen Myer fund. Eight special exhibitions were 

 held as follows : Miniatures lent by Count and Countess Bohdan de 

 Castellane; oils and water colors by Roy M. Mason, N. A.; oils, 

 prints, and drawings by Antonio Rodriguez Luna, of Mexico; jade 

 lent by Georges Estoppey; paintings on metal and prints by Buell 

 Mullen; oils, water colors, and prints by members of the Landscape 

 Club of Washington, D. C. ; plaster busts by Marina Nunez del 

 Prado, of Bolivia; oil paintings, pencil drawings, lithographs, and 

 water colors by Ignacio Aguirre, of Mexico. 



Freer Gallennf of Art. — Additions to the collections included Per- 

 sian and Syrian brass; Chinese bronze; Chinese jade; Arabic man- 

 uscript; Arabic, Chinese, and Persian painting; Arabic, Mesopo- 

 tamian, Persian, and Syro-Egyptian pottery. The regular work of 

 the curatorial staff was devoted to the study and recording of these 

 new acquisitions and other art objects already in the collection. In 

 addition, 770 objects and 235 photographs of objects were submitted 

 to the Director by their owners for informati(m as to identity, prov- 

 enance, quality, date, or inscriptions. Besides this usual work, the 

 staff devoted much of its time during the winter and spring to work 

 connected with the war. The total number of visitors to the Gallery 

 for the year was 87,890. A number of groups were given docent 

 service in the exhibition galleries and study rooms. Carl Whiting 

 Bishop associate in archeology, a member of the Gallery staff since 

 1922, died on June IG, 1942. From 1923 to 1927, and from 1929 to 

 1934, Mr. Bishop was in charge of the Freer Gallery field work in 

 China. He published numerous articles on Chinese archeology in 

 various journals and was widely known as an authority on the 

 earlier phases of Chinese culture. 



Bureau of American Ethnology. — The time of the members of the 

 Bureau's scientific staff has been devoted more and more to activities 

 concerned with the war effort. Their specialized geographical, 

 racial, and linguistic knowledge has been in constant demand by the 

 Army, Navy, and other war agencies, and certain staff members 

 have cooperated closely with the Ethnogeographic Board, an agency 

 that acts as a clearinghouse for anthropological, geographical, and 

 related information needed in the war effort. As time permitted, 

 the Bureau continued its normal work of studying the American 



