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1955 

 November 9. 



Dr. Ettinghausen, in Angell Hall, University of Michigan, on 

 "Paintings from the Albums of the Mughal Empire." Attend- 

 ance, 75. 



Mr. Stern, at China House, New York City, to the Chinese Art 

 Society of America, on "Hokusai Paintings and Drawings in 

 the Collection of the Freer Gallery of Art." Attendance, 35. 



Dr. Ettinghausen, at Pierce Hall, All Souls' Unitarian Church, 

 Washington, D. C, on "The Art of the Muslim East." Attend- 

 ance, 45. 



Dr. Ettinghausen, for the Photographic Roundtable, Graduate 

 School, United States Department of Agriculture, on "Ex- 

 periences of an Art Photographer under the Crescent." At- 

 tendance, 91. 



Mr. Gettens, at New York State Teachers College, New Paltz, N. Y., 

 on "Chemistry in Art and Archaeology." Attendance, 150. 



Mr. Pope, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on "Ming Porcelain 

 and Its Travels." Attendance, 110. 



Mr. Stern, at the Far Eastern Association meeting in Philadel- 

 phia, on "Shiba Kokan — Artist." Attendance, 50. 



Mr. Stern, at American University, Washington, D. C, on "Hoku- 

 sai Paintings and Drawings in the Freer Gallery of Art." At- 

 tendance, 60. 



Mr. Stern, at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, on 

 "Noted Examples of Japanese Paintings and Sculpture." At- 

 tendance, 95. 



Dr. Ettinghausen, before the Convegno "Volta," Accademia 

 Nazionale dei Lincei, Villa Farvard, Florence, Italy, on "Per- 

 sian Ascension Scenes of the 14th Century." Attendance, 65. 



Mr. Gettens, at The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 

 Winterthur, Del., on "Museum Laboratories" in connection 

 with a 3-day conference titled, "Winterthur Seminars in Mu- 

 seum Operation and Connoisseurship." Attendance, 60. 



On October 15 Mrs. Usilton attended a meeting of the Catalogers 

 and Classifiers for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, 

 in Washington, D. C. Members of the staff traveled outside Wash- 

 ington on official business as follows : 



1955 



July 5. Mrs. Usilton in Philadelphia attended the Art Reference 



Round Table of the American Libraries Association. 



August 15-19. Mr. Schwartz in Chicago attended the National Industrial 



Photographic Conference. 



September 2-3. Mr. Stern in New York examined objects belonging to 

 dealers. 



October 24. Mr. Wenley in Ann Arbor attended a meeting of the Freer 



Fund Committee at the University of Michigan. 



November 7-19. Mr. Gettens in Sarasota, Fla., examined bronze and stone 

 sculpture at the John and Mable Ringling Museum. 



November 8-10. Dr. Ettinghausen in Ann Arbor examined objects in a pri- 

 vate collection. 



November 21-25. Mr. Wenley in New York examined objects at the Metro- 

 politan Museum of Art and belonging to dealers. 



December 14. 



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