"In the field of technical research interesting experiments have been tarried on with the x-ray under the direction of Mr. Alan Burrougas, Curator of Paintings of the Minneapolis institute of Arts, with a grant from the Milton Fund for Research. To quote from Mr. Burroughs' report to the Director, these experiments show that the x-ray has developed into a valuable addition to the expert's equipment for judging the antiqritv or genuineness of paintings more than 100 years old, or for estimating in some cases the evidence of authorship on more tangible grounds than style and feeling. This development involves the detection of repaint. . . Also a new method or studying the materials used by the artist, including woods, canvasses, gesso, and other rounds, pigment--both old and new--and the various methods of manipulating these materials."
Summer Institute is Denarture
"A new development in the work of the Fine Arts Department was the inauguration of Summer Institute of Fine Arts. The first session of the Institute was held at Princetion from August 24 to September 19. The purpose of the Institute, is to provide advanced instruction and opportunity for discussion in the general field of Fine Arts, with particular reference to the history and archaeology." The lecturer for the session of 1925 was Professor Milk hail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff, of the University of Wisconsin, who conducted two courses.
"Some of the acquisitions made on the first expedition to China have arrived this year. Notable among them is a painting on silk of the Tang Dynasty, which is thought to have come originally from the great Tun Huang Library, long sealed and low removed for the most part to London, Paris, and Calcutta Most of the object secured by the second expedition have not arrived. They include a few fresco fragments of different periods and an early wooden statue of historical importance."
'Professor Forbes' report contains an outline of the plans for the new Museum.
$10,000 Spend On Peabody
Professor Willoughby tells of certain important improvements to the Peabody Museum as follows:
"The fourth-floor gallery of the new section has been furnished with wall and alcove cause at a cost of approximately ten thousand dollars, the greater part of this work being made possible through the generosity of friends of the Museum. These cases furnish more than 3300 square feet of exhibition space, and in them are now being installed the ethnological collections form Tibet, Burma, and northern India, secured by professor Dixon; the collections recently acquired from the native peoples of Siberia, including the Chukchi, Yakut, Samoyed, and Goldi; and those from the Malay Archipelago, the Philippine Island, and certain other group of the western pacific.
"The one vacant hall remaining in the new section includes practically all of the fifth floor. This has been occupied during the year by a portion of the offices of the Graduate School of Business Administration, pending the completion of the new building for this department."