REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



57 



Italian. 



Furniture 

 Pottery __ 

 Textiles __ 



Japanese. 



Lacquer 



Metal work : 



Bronze 



Iron __1 



Silver 



Paintings 



Pottery 



Print blocks (wood). 



Sculpture : 



Stone 



Wood 



Textiles 



Korean. 



Glass 



Jade and other hard stones. 

 Metal work : 



Bronze 



Gold 



Silver 



Pottery 



Sculpture, stone 



Near Eastern and East Indian. 



Books, illustrated 



Ivory 



Metal work : 



Bronze 



Silver 



Paintings 



29 



42 



4 



1 



804 



821 



20 



3 

 60 



7 

 4 



189 

 6 

 2 



229 

 14 



18 



1 



3 



19 



139 



Near Eastern and East Indian — ('out. 



Pottery 



Textiles 



Palmyran. 



Sculpture, stone. 



Tibetan. 



Paintings 



Unclassified. 



Metal work 



Pottery 



Sculpture, stone 



Textiles 



Miscellaneous materials 



STUDY ACCESSORIES. 



Dies 



Electrotype plates 



Library : 



Books 



Manuscripts 



Reproductions 



Rubbings 



Photographs : 



Lantern slides 



Negatives 



Print blocks (wood) 



Whistleriana. — 19 portraits of- Whist- 

 ler, reproductions, photographs, 

 clippings, Whistler letters, and 

 other documents. 



EQUIPMENT. 



Office, storage, and gallery furni- 

 ture, etc 



317 

 10 



13 



49 

 10 

 57 

 11 

 50 



107 



2,344 



3 



170 



222 



3, 179 

 693 



122 



Work accomplished during the year includes unpacking and check- 

 ing the collection and placing the objects in their respective storage 

 spaces; examination and classification of the Japanese pottery and 

 Chinese paintings ; urgently needed restoration work on 27 oil paint- 

 ings; renumbering, measuring and cataloguing of the entire col- 

 lection. This latter task, though well under way, is by no means 

 completed. 



ACQUISITIONS BY PURCHASE. 



Sculpture, stone : 



Chinese, period of the Six Dynasties. Two large slabs carved in high relief 

 with Buddhist scenes. 



Chinese, T'ang? A tiger. 

 Photographic negatives — 70, representing objects in the Freer collection. 



BUILDING AND INSTALLATION. 



The principal work accomplished during the year includes com- 

 pletion of certain electrical equipment and of gallery equipment such 

 as register faces, pipe rails, and skylight glass; the installation of 

 two additional lavatories and a carpenter's workshop ; the provision 

 of asbestos screens for the windows of the peacock room to prevent 

 condensation of moisture on the glass ; the building of partitions in 



