50 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1947 



4. 95 objects including jiottery and metalwork of no special material value, 

 but of some scientific interest. 



It is the donor's wish that these materials be used for study and 

 publication by members of the Institution staff and other qualified 

 scholars, and that the objects be available for exhibition in the Institu- 

 tion at the discretion of the Director of the Freer Gallery of Art. 



ATTENDANCE 



The Gallery was open to the public from 9 to 4 : 30 every day 

 except Christmas Day. The total number of visitors to come in 

 the main entrance was 107,237. The weekday total was 80,031, and 

 the Sunday total was 27,206. The average weekday attendance was 

 256, the average Sunday attendance, 523. The highest monthly at- 

 tendance was in April with 15,794 visitors; the lowest, in February 

 with 4,053 visitors. 



There were 1,915 visitors to the main office during the year; the 

 purposes of their visits were as follows : 



For general information 1, 559 



To see staff members 96 



To read in the library 250 



To make sketches and tracings from library books 9 



To see building and installations 18 



To make photographs in Court and sketches in the exhibition 



galleries 27 



To examine, borrow, or purchase photographs and slides 389 



To submit objects for examination 471 



To see objects in storage : 



Washington Manuscripts 49 



Far Eastern paintings and textiles 74 



Near Eastern paintings and manuscripts 28 



Tibetan paintings 5 



Indian paintings and manuscripts 9 



American paintings 28 



American pottery 3 



Whistler prints 19 



Oriental pottery, jade, bronze, lacquer, and bamboo 83 



Gold treasure and Byzantine objects 15 



All sculpture 10 



Syrian and other glass 4 



327 



DOCENT SERVICE, LECTURES, MEITTINGS 



By request, 10 groups met in the exhibition galleries for instruction 

 by staff members. Total attendance was 183. 



