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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. 

 Member of the Board of United States Civil Service 



Examiners at Washington, D. C, for the Smithsonian 



Institution. 

 Member, Board of Trustees, Textile Museum, Washington, 



d.c. 



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, Committee on Japanese Studies, American Council 

 of Learned Societies. 



On February 27, 1956, at the studios of WRC (NBC) dis- 

 cussed the Freer Gallery of Art and its Collections on the 

 Patty Cavin radio show. 

 Mr. Pope : President, Far Eastern Ceramic Group. 



Member, Editorial Board, Archives of the Chinese Art Society 

 of America. 



President, Association of the Southern Alumni of the Phil- 

 lips Exeter Academy. 



Member, Art Committee, Cosmos Club. 

 Dr. Ettinghausen : Research Professor of Islamic Art, Department of Fine Arts, 

 University of Michigan. 



Near Eastern editor, Ars Orientalis. 



Member, Editorial Board, The Art Bulletin. 



Trustee, American Research Center in Egypt. 



Member, Comitato Internazionale di Patronato, Museo In- 

 ternazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy. 



Member, Advisory Committee of Current Research on the 

 Middle East, to be published by the Middle East Institute, 

 Washington, D. C. 

 Mr. Gettens : Consultant, Advisory Board of the Intermuseum Conservation 



Association, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. 



Associate Editor, Studies in Conservation, published for the 

 International Institute for the Conservation of Museum 

 Objects, London. 



Abstractor for Chemical Abstracts, American Chemical 

 Society. 



Socio Corrispondente, Centro de Storia della Metallurgia 

 (Associazione Italiana di Metallurgia), Via Moscova 16, 

 Milano, Italy. 



Member, Subcommittee for J. /. C. Abstracts, Chief of the 

 American Working Party, International Institute for the 

 Conservation of Museum Objects, London. 



Member, Planning Committee for a proposed National Con- 

 servation Laboratory for the United States. 



