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 November 19. 



December 1-5. 

 December 13-16. 



December 21-22. 



Dr. Ettinghausen in Baltimore examined objects in the 

 Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Gallery. 



Mr. Pope in New York examined objects belonging to dealers. 



Mr. Wenley in New York examined objects belonging to 

 dealers. 



Mr. Wenley in Cleveland to visit loan exhibition of Chinese 

 landscape painting at the Cleveland Museum of Art; ex- 

 amined objects in museum and belonging to a dealer. 



1955 



January 24-27. Mr. Wenley in New York examined a private collection of 

 Chinese furniture offered for sale, and also objects belong- 

 ing to dealers. 



January 26-31, Dr. Ettinghausen in New York examined objects belonging 

 to dealers, and in museums and private collections. 



January 27. Mr. Gettens in Baltimore at the chemical laboratory of the 



Johns Hopkins University to observe progress of the work 

 on the Dead Sea Scrolls ; at the Walters Art Gallery visited 

 the technical laboratory to examine equipment. 



February 16-22. Mr. Stern in New York examined objects belonging to 

 dealers, museums, and the New York Public Library. 



March 16-17. Mr. Wenley in New York examined objects belonging to an 



estate, and others belonging to a dealer. 



March 30. Dr. Elttinghausen and Mr. Gettens in Baltimore examined 



objects at the Walters Art Gallery. 



April 25-27. Mr. Wenley in Ann Arbor for meeting of the Freer Fund 



Committee at the University of Michigan ; examined ob- 

 jects in a private collection ; discussed problems of printing 

 Ars Orientalis with the University Press. 



May 20. Dr. Ettinghausen in Baltimore examined objects at the 



Walters Art Gallery. 



May 30-31. Mr. Wenley in Baltimore for meeting of the Association of 



Art Museum Directors at the Baltimore Museum of Art. 



Members of the staff held honorary posts, received recognition, and 

 undertook additional duties outside the Gallery as follows : 



Mr. Wenley : Member, Visiting Committee, Dumbarton Oaks Research 



Library and Collection. 



Research Professor of Oriental Art, Department of Fine 

 Arts, University of Michigan. 



Board member of the Board of United States Civil Service 

 Examiners at Washington, D. C, for the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution. 



Member, Board of Trustees, Textile Museum, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Member, Board of Trustees, Hermitage Foundation, Norfolk, 

 Va. 



Member, Council of the Far Eastern Ceramic Group. 



Member, Smithsonian Art Commission. 



Member, Consultative Committee, Ars Orientalis. 



Chairman of the Louise Wallace Hackney Scholarship Com- 

 mittee of the American Oriental Society. 



Member, House Committee, Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C, 



