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Sub-Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings. 

 I. — Arrangment and Cataloguing, 8fc. 



The Chinese, Japanese, and Indian paintings, which had been 

 removed for storage in the Post Office Tube, were brought back 

 without injury at the beginning of the year and returned to their 

 places in the collection. 



The framed pictures in the Stein Collection have been labelled 

 and arranged in the special cases designed for them. 



The several collections of Chinese paintings, hitherto kept 

 separate, have been incorporated in a single series, arranged accor- 

 ding to period. The items have all been re-numbered. A similar 

 task has been undertaken with regard to the Japanese paintings, 

 the Morrison Collection having to be incorporated with the main 

 collection. The paintings have been checked for this purpose, and 

 the work is in process of being carried out. The prints after 

 Japanese Masters have been re-arranged in portfolios. 



Two books of reference and 35 prints, recently acquired, have 

 been placed. 



The subject-index to the Japanese collections has been completed. 



A list has been made of the Chinese paintings arranged accor- 

 ding to the new numbering. A finding-list has also been prepared, 

 giving the correspondence between the new numbers and the old. 



A list has been made of the Japanese paintings in the proposed 

 new order of arrangement. 



Corrections in the Index of (Chinese Artists, rendered necessary 

 by the new numbering, have been made. 



Additions to the hand-lists of Japanese woodcuts, rendered 

 necessary by new acquisitions, have been made. 



A subject-index of the Stein Collection has been prepared, with 

 cross-references from Sanskrit to Japanese names. 



A study has been made of the paintings in the Stein Collection 

 from the point of view of Buddhist iconography. 



A list of the paintings and woodcuts in the Stein Collection has 

 been prepared. 



Registration. — Three hundred and sixty-nine items have been 

 entered in the Register of Acquisitions. 



Stamping and Mounting. — Three hundred and eight paintings, 

 prints, &c., have been impressed with the departmental stamp and 

 references to the Register. 



Thirty-nine paintings and drawings from the Stein Collection 

 have been mounted. 



Two paintings from the Stein Collection have been framed. 



One Chinese painting of the Sung period, recently acquired, 

 has been remounted and repaired. 



Five Chinese paintings have been cleaned, and four others 

 backed and mounted. 



