30 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 19 3 5 



To make tracings and sketches from library books 29 



To obtain permission to photograph or sketch 10 



To examine or purchase photographs 371 



To submit objects for examination 119 



To see members of the staff 234 



DOCENT SERVICE 



Seventy-eight groups ranging from 1 to 40 persons (total 447) 

 were given docent service in the exhibition galleries upon request 

 (of these, 6 groups totaling 11 persons, on Mondays) . Sixteen groups 

 ranging from 11 to 18 persons (total 221) were given instruction in 

 Chinese arts in the study rooms. 



AUDITORIUM 



The following groups have held meetings in the Auditorium : 



October 27, 1934: Teachers of art in the Public Schools of the District of 



Columbia, and students. Attendance 200. 

 May 24, 1935: The technical section of the American Association of Museums. 



Attendance 15. 



PERSONNEL 



Mr. and Mrs. Carl W. Bishop returned to the Gallery on Novem- 

 ber 7, 1934. 



Grace T. Whitney worked intermittently at the Gallery between 

 October 10, 1934, and June 24, 1935, on translation of Arabic and 

 Persian texts. 



Grace Aasen Parler, librarian, was permanently transferred from 

 the Smithsonian Library to the Freer Gallery Library on January 1, 

 1935. 



Walter McCree, laborer, was permanently appointed to succeed 

 John Pinkney, July 1, 1934. 



Respectfully submitted. 



J. E. Lodge, Curator. 



Dr. C. G. Abbot, 



Secretary^ Smithsonian Institution. 



