Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1914 (Classic Reprint)
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1914 (Classic Reprint)
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, 1943 Freer Gallery of Art - Additions to the collections included Chinese bronze, Persian gold, Persian and Indian paintings, Chinese poree lain, and Chinese and Persian pottery. Besides the regular curatorial work, the staff devoted much of its time to supplying information to war agencies and to translating matter from Chinese and Japanese ...
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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, 1943 Freer Gallery of Art - Additions to the collections included Chinese bronze, Persian gold, Persian and Indian paintings, Chinese poree lain, and Chinese and Persian pottery. Besides the regular curatorial work, the staff devoted much of its time to supplying information to war agencies and to translating matter from Chinese and Japanese sources, amounting to hundreds of typewritten pages. In addition, Chinese and Japanese names on maps of war areas were identified and transliterated to the number of more than The Director gave a series of lectures to Washington school teachers on Chinese culture as reflected in the fine arts in furtherance of a plan to disseminate knowledge of China in the public schools. Visitors to the gallery numbered for the year, and 12 groups were given docent service or instruction in the study room. John Ellerton Lodge, Director of the Freer Gallery from its beginning in 1920, died on December 29, 1942. Under Mr. Lodge's wise administration was developed the work of the Gallery in the study and the acquisition of Oriental fine arts. He was succeeded as Director by Archibald G. Wenley, asso ciate in research at the Gallery. Bureau of American E tlmology. - Activities concerned with the other American republics have been emphasized during the year, and a large part of the time of the staff has been devoted to war projects. Several members have worked nearly full time in cooperation with the Ethnogeographic Board in preparing strategic information for the Army, Navy, and war agencies. M. W. Stirling, Chief, directed the fifth National geographic-smithsonian archeological expedition to southern Mexico. Excavations at the site of La Venta in southern Tabasco resulted in the discovery of construction details of the stone fenced enclosure, one of the central features of the site. Three rich burials contained jade offerings of high quality. Dr. J. R. Swanton completed the proofreading of his 850-page bulletin entitled The Indians of the Southeastern United States, and did further work on the now extinct language of the Timucua Indians of Florida. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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