60 ANNUAL, REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1924 



ATTENDANCE 



The gallery has been open every day, with the exception of Mon- 

 day, from 9 o'clock until 4.30, and with the exception, also, of four 

 days when it was closed by Executive order at the time of the death 

 of President Harding. The total attendance for the year was 111,942. 

 The aggregate Sunday attendance was 28,925, making an average 

 of 546; the week-day attendance amounted to 83,017, with an aver- 

 age of 324. Of these visitors, 482 came to work in the study rooms 

 or to examine objects not on exhibition ; 70 to make a study of the 

 building, storage facilities, lighting, wall-coloring, etc.; 10 to make 

 copies or studies from objects in the collection, and 35 brought 

 objects in their possession for examination and information. 



On February 7, 8, and 9 the auditorium of the Freer Gallery was 

 placed at the disposal of the Library of Congress for the presenta- 

 tion of three recitals of chamber music. These concerts were the 

 gift to the Library of Mrs. Frederic Shurtleff Coolidge, to accom- 

 pany her gifts of the manuscripts of 13 modern compositions to the 

 music division. Seven of these were performed. 



On April 29 Professor Paul Pelliot, of the College de France, gave 

 an illustrated lecture on " Chinese bronzes, jades, and sculptures." 

 The total attendance at the concerts was 1,080, and at the lecture 

 202, making a grand total attendance for the gallery of 113,224. 



PERSONNEL 



Miss Grace L. McKenney entered as an assistant on October 22. 

 1923. 



Miss Mildren M. Tytus worked as an assistant from November 

 12 to May 17. 



Mrs. Kita W. Edwards was transferred from the office of corre- 

 spondence and documents on February 16, and was regularly ap- 

 pointed to the position of stenographer on April 1. 



Miss Chie Hirano, librarian of the department of Chinese and 

 Japanese art of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Mr. K. S. 

 Wang, have worked on the cataloguing of Japanese and Chinese 

 books. 



FIELD WORK 



Since the activities of the expedition sent to China under the 

 joint auspices of this gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts, Bos- 

 ton, have been conveyed to you in detail from time to time through 

 the reports and correspondence of the field staff, I venture merely 

 to remind you now of the fruitful investigations carried on during 

 the year at Hsin-chengf Hsien in Honan; at I Chou in Chihli; at 

 the tombs of Han Wu Ti, Ho Chii-ping, and others in Shensi ; and, 



