54 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1945 



Indian arts : 



Manuscripts 14 



Paintings 75 



Sculptures 8 



Islamic inetalwork 32 



Korean pottery 24 



Near Eastern pottery 66 



Persian arts : 



Bookbindings 8 



Manuscripts 22 



Paintings 138 



Silver 4 



Syrian glass 16 



ATTENDANCE 



The Gallery has been open to the public every day except Christmas 

 Day and Mondays up to Monday, January 29, 1945, on which day it 

 began to be open to the public 7 days a week. 



The total number of visitors coming in at the main entrance was 

 72,149. Thirty-seven other visitors on Mondays previous to January 

 29 made a grand total of 72,186. The total attendance on weekdays 

 was 41,671; on Sundays, 30,478. The average weekday attendance 

 was 148; the average Sunday attendance, 586. The highest monthly 

 attendance was in April, with 7,981 visitors ; the lowest, in December, 

 with 3,611 visitors. 



There were 1,412 visitors to the main office during the year; the 

 purposes of their visits were as follows : 



For general information 349 



To see members of the staff 527 



To read in the library 216 



To make tracings and sketches from library books 5 



To see building and installations 12 



To make photographs and sketches 15 



To see exhibition galleries on Monday 5 



To examine or purchase photographs and slides 336 



To submit objects for examination 228 



To see objects in storage 263 



Washington Manuscripts 23 



Far Eastern paintings and textiles 53 



Near Eastern paintings and manuscripts 37 



Tibetan paintings 1 



Indian paintings and manuscripts 7 



American paintings 55 



Whistler prints 4 



Oriental pottery, jade, bronze, lacquer, and bamboo 67 



Gold Treasure and Byzantine objects 7 



All sculpture 8 



Syrian and other glass 1 



