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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  194 
  3 
  

  

  66 
  pamphlets 
  added 
  by 
  purchase, 
  and 
  77 
  volumes 
  of 
  bound 
  periodicals. 
  

   The 
  Parke-Bernet 
  priced 
  catalogs 
  accounted 
  for 
  53 
  volumes 
  and 
  60 
  

   pamphlets 
  among 
  the 
  purchases. 
  

  

  Miss 
  Anna 
  M. 
  Link 
  was 
  appointed 
  librarian 
  October 
  16, 
  1942. 
  

  

  OTHER 
  ACTIVITIES 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  paintings 
  have 
  been 
  cleaned 
  or 
  restored 
  since 
  Jiily 
  

   1, 
  1942 
  : 
  

  

  "The 
  Storm 
  King 
  on 
  the 
  Hudson," 
  by 
  Samuel 
  Colman, 
  was 
  relined. 
  

  

  "Mountain 
  Scene," 
  by 
  F. 
  E. 
  Church, 
  was 
  cleaned. 
  

  

  "Mountain 
  Scene," 
  by 
  I. 
  Diday, 
  was 
  cleaned. 
  

  

  "Painting 
  Representing 
  Falls, 
  supposed 
  to 
  be 
  Genesee 
  Falls, 
  N. 
  Y." 
  by 
  William 
  

   Winstanley, 
  was 
  relined 
  and 
  restored. 
  From 
  the 
  geologic 
  formation 
  seen 
  in 
  

   the 
  painting, 
  it 
  was 
  determined 
  that 
  the 
  falls 
  could 
  not 
  be 
  Genesee 
  Falls 
  of 
  

   New 
  York, 
  but 
  could 
  be 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Great 
  Falls 
  of 
  the 
  Potomac. 
  This 
  painting 
  

   belonged 
  to 
  George 
  Washington 
  and 
  is 
  now 
  the 
  property 
  of 
  the 
  division 
  of 
  history 
  

   of 
  the 
  National 
  Museum. 
  

  

  "Moonlight 
  Scene 
  from 
  a 
  Grotto 
  on 
  a 
  Rocky 
  Coast," 
  by 
  an 
  unknown 
  artist, 
  

   was 
  cleaned. 
  This 
  painting 
  belonged 
  to 
  George 
  Washington 
  and 
  is 
  now 
  the 
  

   property 
  of 
  the 
  division 
  of 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Museum. 
  

  

  "Portrait 
  of 
  Judge 
  Denny," 
  by 
  Thomas 
  Sully, 
  was 
  relined. 
  Property 
  of 
  the 
  

   Supreme 
  Court. 
  

  

  "Portrait 
  of 
  Col. 
  Timothy 
  Pickering" 
  was 
  varnished 
  and 
  the 
  frame 
  restored. 
  

   Property 
  of 
  the 
  War 
  Department. 
  

  

  Advice 
  and 
  supervision 
  was 
  given 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Capitol 
  re- 
  

   garding 
  the 
  large 
  Halsall 
  naval 
  painting, 
  "The 
  Monitor 
  and 
  Merri- 
  

   mac," 
  painted 
  in 
  1884. 
  

  

  Eight 
  exhibition 
  cases 
  containing 
  ancient 
  necklaces, 
  rare 
  Persian 
  

   paintings, 
  ceramics, 
  jewelry, 
  cameo 
  glass, 
  and 
  miniatures 
  were 
  moved 
  

   from 
  the 
  first 
  floor 
  to 
  the 
  ground 
  floor. 
  

  

  Eight 
  of 
  the 
  antique 
  wooden 
  and 
  terra-cotta 
  statues 
  in 
  the 
  Gellatly 
  

   Collection 
  are 
  now 
  shown 
  on 
  shelves 
  against 
  a 
  monk's-cloth 
  back- 
  

   ground. 
  The 
  rearrangement 
  made 
  possible 
  the 
  removal 
  of 
  two 
  large 
  

   pedestals, 
  greatly 
  improving 
  the 
  general 
  appearance 
  of 
  the 
  large 
  

   gallery. 
  

  

  Another 
  rearrangement 
  made 
  possible 
  by 
  the 
  addition 
  of 
  two 
  exhibi- 
  

   tion 
  cases 
  has 
  brought 
  together 
  nearly 
  all 
  the 
  rare 
  Chinese 
  glass, 
  

   jade, 
  and 
  pottery. 
  

  

  K. 
  T. 
  Wu 
  and 
  C. 
  M. 
  Wang, 
  of 
  the 
  Library 
  of 
  Congress, 
  translated 
  

   the 
  inscription 
  on 
  the 
  Northern 
  Wei 
  stele 
  (357, 
  Gellatly 
  Collection), 
  

   and 
  made 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  rubbings 
  of 
  this 
  Chinese 
  statue. 
  

  

  The 
  huge 
  vase 
  showing 
  a 
  copy 
  of 
  Guido 
  Keni's 
  "Aurora" 
  and 
  a 
  

   self 
  portrait 
  of 
  Guido 
  Reni 
  (226, 
  Pell 
  Collection) 
  was 
  appropriately 
  

   placed 
  in 
  the 
  center 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Museum 
  rotunda. 
  

  

  The 
  largest 
  task 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  was 
  the 
  making 
  of 
  a 
  sheet 
  catalog 
  with 
  

   cross 
  references 
  of 
  the 
  paintings 
  and 
  sculpture 
  of 
  the 
  collection. 
  The 
  

  

  