CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER INSTITUTIONS 



In co-operation with the Department of Anthropology of the Univ- 

 versity of Chicago the Museum presented in November an illus- 

 trated lecture on "The Art of Western New Guinea and Its Cultural 

 Background" by Dr. Simon Kooijman, Curator of Rijksmuseum 

 voor Volkenkunde in Leiden, who, while in the United States, also 

 lectured at the Museum of Primitive Art in New York and at 

 Harvard University (when in Chicago he studied the extensive New 

 Guinea collections of ethnological and art specimens in the Museum's 

 Pacific Science Laboratory). 



The course in museology, which covers all details of curatorial 

 duties in a museum, was continued at the Museum by our anthro- 

 pologists in co-operation with the Department of Anthropology of 

 the University of Chicago. Phillip H. Lewis, Assistant Curator of 

 Primitive Art, taught a six-week course in primitive art in the 

 exhibition galleries of the Museum during July and August for 

 students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and, in 

 April, gave a gallery lecture for a group of students brought to the 

 Museum from Manteno (Illinois) State Hospital. 



Dr. Kenneth Starr, Curator of Asiatic Archaeology and Eth- 

 nology, gave a lecture at the University of Michigan on Chinese 

 rubbings and demonstrated the art on an educational program spon- 

 sored by the television center of the University of Michigan. Dr. 

 John B. Rinaldo, Assistant Curator of Archaeology, spoke at a 

 meeting of the archaeology society at the University of Wisconsin, 

 Assistant Curator Lewis lectured at Northwestern University and 

 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Dr. Roland W. 

 Force, Curator of Oceanic Archaeology and Ethnology, spoke at the 

 Borg-Warner Research Center of the Scientific Research Society 

 of America. Dr. Donald Collier, Curator of South American Archae- 

 ology and Ethnology, George I. Quimby, Curator of North American 

 Archaeology and Ethnology, and Curator Force taught courses at 

 the University of Chicago. Curator Force, who was appointed to 

 a committee to assist the National Planning Board of Century 21 

 Exposition to be held in Seattle in 1962, attended committee 

 meetings in Philadelphia and New York City. Dr. Paul S. Martin, 

 Chief Curator of Anthropology, and Assistant Curator Rinaldo took 

 part in a seminar on ceramics at the Museum of Northern Arizona. 



Dr. Theodor Just, Chief Curator of Botany, arranged for a 

 seminar to be given in the Department of Biology at Northwestern 

 University by Dr. A. J. Kostermans, professor of botany at the 

 University of Indonesia, and introduced Dr. Kostermans. Chief 



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