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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ended June 30, 1949 Freer Gallery of Art - Additions to the collections included Chinese bronze, jade, lacquer, marble, and painting; Syrian glass; Syrian or Egyptian gold; Arabic manuscript; Persian manuscript, painting, and stone sculpture; Indian painting; and Turkish painting. The work of the professional staff was devoted to the study of new accessions and to research within the collection Of Chinese, Japanese, Iranian, Arabic, and Indian materials. Reports were made upon objects and 372 photographs of Objects submitted to the Gallery for examina tion, and 369 Oriental language inscriptions were translated. The repair and restoration of the walls of Whistler's Peacock Room were completed early in the year, and work was begun on the ceiling. Visitors to the Gallery numbered for the year, and came to the Gallery offices for special purposes. Sixteen groups were given instruction in the exhibition galleries by staff members, and 13 lec tures were given in art galleries and museums, before clubs, and to various associations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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