104 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1957 



AUDITORIUM 

 The series of illustrated lectures was continued as follows: 



1956 



October 16. Dr. Richard Edwards, Washington University (St. Louis). 



"Unique Aspects of Chinese Painting." Attendance, 119. 



November 13. George N. Kates, "The Imperial Lakes of the Forbidden City, 



Peking." Attendance, 208. 

 1957 



January 15. Dr. Carl H. Kraeling, Oriental Institute, University of Chi- 



cago. "Recent Explorations in Libya." Attendance, 63. 



February 12. James F. Cahill, Freer Fellow. "Painting — Albums in China 



and Japan." Attendance, 119. 



March 19. E. Arthur Lane, Keeper of Department of Ceramics, Victoria 



and Albert Museum, London. "Islamic Pottery, XIV- 

 XVIII Centuries." Attendance, 116. 



April 16. Dr. Alexander Soper, Bryn Mawr College. "The Southern 



Contribution to Early Buddhist Art in China." Attend- 

 ance, 71. 



Three outside organizations used the auditorium, as follows: 



1956 



November 27, 28. The United States Department of Agriculture held meetings 

 for field staff members of the Federal Extension Service. 

 Attendance, 78 and 95, respectively. 

 1957 



February 5. Under the auspices of the Turkish Embassy, Prof. Nureddin 



Sevin, Ankara State Conservatory, Ankara, Turkey, lec- 

 tured on "Turkish Art Tbrough the Centuries." (Illus- 

 trated.) Attendance, 163. 



February 25. The Agriculture Extension Wives Group held a conference. 



Attendance, 14. 



Four other meetings were held in the building by the Board of 

 Governors, Washington Society, Archaeological Institute of America, 

 Eutherf ord J. Gettens, president, as follows : 



July 11, 1956 Attendance, 8 



October 1, 1956 Attendance, 9 



February 28, 1957 Attendance, 8 



May 20, 1957 Attendance, 10 



STAFF ACTIVITIES 



The work of the staff members has been devoted to the study of new 

 accessions, of objects contemplated for purchase, and of objects sub- 

 mitted for examination, as well as to individual research projects in 

 the fields represented by the collections of Chinese, Japanese, Persian, 

 Arabic, and Indian materials. Reports, oral or written, and ex- 

 clusive of those made by the technical laboratory (listed below) were 

 made on 3,660 objects as follows: For private individuals, 1,603; for 



