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Art Commission." A wood gravure of "Rockwell Studio," by Ma- 

 cowin Tuttle, was accepted by the Commission for the collection. 

 Five miniatures were acquired through the Catherine Walden Myer 

 fund. Six special exhibitions were held as follows: The art of the 

 Mexican school children, 262 items; joint exhibition of the Twenty 

 Women Painters and the Landscape Club, of Washington, D. C; 74 

 water colors by William Spencer Bagdatopoulos ; 85 paintings,' 20 

 framed and 41 unframed water colors, 34 etchings, and 33 pieces of 

 sculpture from the National Collection of Fine Arts; 3 portraits by 

 Henrique Medina; and 260 naval historical prints from the Eber- 

 stadt Collection. 



Freer Gallery of Art.— Additions to the collections included Chinese 

 bronze, gold, and jade objects; Arabic manuscripts; Chinese, Indian, 

 and Persian paintings; Chinese porcelain; Persian pottery; and 

 Egyptian stone sculpture. The year's curatorial work has been de- 

 voted to the study of Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Persian, Aramaic, 

 and Armenian art objects and of associated texts, inscriptions, or 

 seals. The results of these studies have been incorporated in 'the 

 Gallery records. Many similar objects have been brought or sent to 

 the Director by their owners for expert opinion on their identity, 

 age, etc. Changes in exhibition in the Gallery have involved a total 

 of 75 objects. The number of visitors for the year was 120,427. Two 

 lectures on Musulman painting were given by Eustache de Lorey, of 

 Paris; 9 groups were given instruction in the study rooms, and 10 

 groups were given docent service in the exhibition galleries. 



Bureau of American Ethnology.- -Mr. Stirling, chief, besides his 

 administrative duties, made a reconnaissance trip to Mexico, during 

 which he selected a site in the Canton of Tuxtlas south of Veracruz 

 for archeological excavation during the coming year. Dr. Swanton 

 devoted most of the year to field work and investigations relating to 

 his work as chairman of the United States De Soto Expedition Com- 

 mission. Dr. Michelson undertook field work among the Montag- 

 nais-Naskapi Indians of the northern shore of the St. Lawrence 

 River and vicinity. Dr. Harrington completed a comparative study 

 of the Tano-Kiowan family of languages. Dr. Roberts continued his 

 archeological work at the Lindenmeier site in northern Colorado, 

 where he unearthed a large collection of specimens relating to Folsom 

 man, so far as known the earliest of New World inhabitants. Dr. 

 Steward completed his final report on the tribes of the Great Plains- 

 Plateau area. In April 1938, he left for Ecuador to begin extensive 

 ethnological studies in the western part of South America. The 

 Bureau published an annual report and three bulletins. 



International Exchanges.— The International Exchange Service 

 under the Smithsonian Institution acts as the official agency of the 



