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Guide to Signs and Symbols used on Chinese military maps were made 
and a compilation of a glossary of Chinese geographical and topo- 
graphical terms was edited and revised for the Army Map Service. 
The Chinese character for “Victory” was made for an artist to be 
used in connection with a publication on the United Nations. Photo- 
graphs made by the Freer Gallery field staff in China were reproduced 
for the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department (27 
prints). For another agency, several Japanese documents were ex- 
amined. 
Other services have been given to various persons. For example, 
63 photographs of Chinese paintings were presented to Dr. Shih- 
chieh Wang, Secretary General of the People’s Council and Central 
Planning Board of China and a member of the Chinese Goodwill 
Mission; 557 photographs were given to members of the armed ser- 
vices who visited the offices; 24 military students of the School of 
Foreign Service, Georgetown University, were shown through the 
Chinese exhibition galleries; and in Santa Fe, N. Mex., a lecture on 
“Flower Painting in the Near and the Far East” was given by a staff 
member using Freer Gallery material, for the benefit of the Indian 
Service Club. 
CHANGES IN EXHIBITION AND REPAIRS TO THE COLLECTION 
Six hundred eighty-eight changes in exhibition have been made, as 
follows: 
American paintings: 
Oils, 79; water colors, 35; pastels, 22. 
American prints (Whistler) : 
Etchings, 32; lithographs, 21. 
Biblical manuscripts, 6. 
Coptic book covers, 4. 
Chinese arts: 
Bronzes, 47; bronze and jade, 4. 
Ceramics, 40. 
Jade, 152. 
Marble, 2. 
Paintings, 117. 
Silver, 36. 
Sculpture, bronze, 32. 
Sculpture, stone, 30. 
Korean pottery, 27. 
Syrian glass, 2. 
Repairs to the collection were as follows: 
One Chinese bronze repaired; 1 Persian painting remounted; 5 Japanese paint- 
ings remounted ; 31 Chinese paintings bound in portfolio form. 
Sculptured head 44.2 cemented upon its original place on the figure of the 
dancer of the Chinese Buddhist relief 24.2. 
