SECRETARY'S REPORT 45 



The repair and restoration of the ceiling of the Whistler Peacock 

 Room, mentioned in last year's report, has been completed. The 

 final work of cleaning and restoring the wainscoting, shutters, and 

 doors, now in progress, is being carried on as before by John and 

 Richard Finlayson, of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 



CHANGES IN EXHIBITIONS 



Changes in exhibitions totaled 149, as follows: 



American paintings 82 



Chinese bronzes 10 



Chinese gold 2 



Chinese silver gilt 2 



Indian paintings 29 



Indian stone sculpture 4 



Japanese lacquer 12 



Japanese paintings 4 



Japanese wood sculpture 2 



Persian wood carving 2 



LIBRARY 



During the year the following work was accomplished in the library : 

 Accessions, including books, pamphlets, periodicals, rubbings, study 

 material, and photographs, 826; cataloging of all kinds, including 

 cards typed and filed, 5,518; binding, repairing, and mounting, 762. 

 The Japanese publication Bijutsu Kenkyu was analyzed, and work 

 on the analyzing of the Japanese periodical Kokka was started. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Two publications of the Gallery were issued during the year: 



Guest, Grace Dunham: Shiraz Painting in the Sixteenth Century (Oriental 



Studies No. 4). S. I. Publ. 3978. October 1949. 

 Stubbs, Burns A.: James McNeill Whistler, A Biographical Outline Illustrated 



from the Collections of the Freer Gallery of Art (Occasional Papers, vol. 1, 



No. 4). S. I. Publ. 3994. February 1950. 



One article by a staff member appeared in an outside publication: 



Wenley, A. G.: The Question of the Po-Shan-Hsiang-Lu. Archives of the 

 Chinese Art Society of America, vol. 3, p. 5, 1948-1949. 



REPRODUCTIONS 



During the year the photographic laboratory made 3,631 prints, 

 434 glass negatives, and 19 lantern slides. 



BUILDING 



The cabinet shop has been constantly occupied in the usual work of 

 making necessary equipment, certain repairs to the collections, the 



