50 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1949 
A. and Richard M. Finlayson of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 
and the structural work is being done by the Gallery cabinet shop. 
CHANGES IN EXHIBITIONS 
Changes in exhibitions totaled 53, as follows: 
American paintings ois). ies ih eee SE ers ee eee 25 
Peacock Room (Gemporarilyclosed) 2224 ee ee cee Bee 1 
Chinese: eilpronzes2 24 iis 2 Sebi Soe PSR Pe ene. 2 2 
@hinesenpaintin pssst so eS OM eee) Se Pe a ek hed Dae oS 4 
Chinese pottery22 55+ 2 sacs Semen ee en 5 
Japanese pammbings: 20 :Gou08 ) eit OU is Sa) RE 16 
This unusually small number of exhibition changes is accounted 
for by the lack of a painter in the Gallery. 
LIBRARY 
During the year the following work was accomplished in the 
library: 
Accessions, including books, pamphlets, charts, rubbings, and study 
photographs, 753; cataloging of all kinds, including cards typed and 
filed, 4,448; binding, repairing, and mounting, 693. 
An inventory of the library holdings was completed, and statistics 
now show the number of books, pamphlets, and other items, rather 
than the number of titles. The periodicals, including museum publi- 
cations, were inventoried, revised, and alphabetically shelved in the 
periodical room. 
PUBLICATIONS 
The following new edition of a former title was published: Annotated 
Outline of the History of Japanese Art, new issue, March 1949. 
Occasional Papers, vol. 1, No. 2: Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, 
Prints, and Copper Plates by and Attributed to American and Euro- 
pean Artists, together with a List of Original Whistleriana, in the 
Freer Gallery of Art, by Burns A. Stubbs, was published in August 
1948. 
REPRODUCTIONS 
During the year the photographic laboratory made 4,332 prints, 
713 glass negatives, 607 black-and-white slides and 269 color slides. 
ATTENDANCE 
The Gallery was open to the public from 9:00 to 4:30 every day 
except Christmas Day. The total number of visitors to come in the 
main entrance was 74,846. The weekday total was 59,595, and 15,096 
visitors came on Sundays. The averages were: Weekdays, 198; Sun- 
days, 290. The highest monthly attendance was in August with 
8,300 and the lowest was in December with 2,622. 
