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animation by private owners, to the total number of 1,918 objects and 

 110 reproductions of objects. Written translation of 132 oriental 

 language inscriptions were made on request. Docent service and 

 public lectures given by staff members are listed below. 



WAR WORK 



In addition to their regular curatorial work, a large part of the 

 time of two members of the staff was given to work for other Gov- 

 ernment agencies directly concerned with war work. One of these 

 members was detached from the Gallery to work at the Office of War 

 Information 4 days a week for a period -of 6 months. Other work, 

 involving the correction and revision of official Government publica- 

 tions on China and Japan, was done at the Freer Gallery, where also 

 working space and assistance was given to a group of four persons 

 from the American Committee for the Protection and Salvage of 

 Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, working on the proj- 

 ect for Korea. Several individuals from branches of the armed 

 services were assisted in special studies and given 122 photographs. 

 Fifty-eight photographs of Chinese objects in the collection were pre- 

 sented to a representative of the National Library of Peiping. 



Repairs to the collection can be summarized as follows : 



Chinese paintings remounted 243 



Tibetan painting remounted 1 



Chinese lacquer figure repaired 1 



Chinese stone sculpture repaired 1 



Chinese wood sculpture repaired 1 



Persian manuscript page repaired 1 



Changes in exhibition totaled 1,373, as follows : 



American paintings 95 



Arabic arts : 



Bookbindings 6 



Manuscripts 45 



Paintings 16 



Wood carving 3 



Armenian manuscripts 8 



Chinese arts: 



Bamboo, carved 4 



Bronzes I 200 



Ceramics 148 



Gold and silver-gilt 21 



Jade 328 



Lacquer 1 



Marble 4 



Paintings 40 



Stone sculpture 26 



East Christian paintings 6 



Egyptian stone sculpture 1 



Greek manuscripts 4 



