120 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1961 



During the year the technical laboratory carried on the following 



activities : 



Objects examined by various methods Including microscopic, microchemical, 

 X-ray diffraction, ultraviolet light, spectrochemical analysis, and specific 

 gravity determination : 



Freer objects examined 19 



Outside objects examined 93 



The following projects were undertaken by the laboratory during 

 the year: 



1. For a period of three weeks, February 24 to March 15, Miss Elisa- 

 beth West worked as a guest in the Conservation Center of the Insti- 

 tute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she continued the 

 spectrochemical analyses of inscribed ceremonial bronzes from the 

 Freer collections. 



2. In April 1961, R. J. Gettens, at the Conservation Center of the 

 Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, gave a seminar entitled 

 "Use of the Microscope in Examination of Works of Art." Attend- 

 ance, 8. 



3. R. J. Gettens continued as editor and Miss West as assistant editor 

 of lie Abstracts published by the International Institute for Conser- 

 vation of Historic and Artistic Works, London, England. 



4. Continued systematic collection of data on the technology of an- 

 cient copper and bronze in the Far East. 



By invitation the following lectures were given outside the Gallery 

 by staff members (illustrated unless otherwise noted) : 



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August 11. Dr. Ettinghausen, at the Twenty-fifth International Con- 



gress of Orientalists, Moscow, U.S.S.R., "Pre-Mughal- 

 Indo-Muslim Manuscripts." 



September 15. Dr. Ettinghausen, at the American School of Oriental Re- 



search, Jerusalem, Israel, "The Interrelationship of 

 India and the Near East in the Middle Ages." 



October 20. Dr. Cahill, at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., "The 



Coming Discovery of Chinese Paintings." 



November 1. Dr. Ettinghausen, at Ankara University, Turkey, "Variety 



of Arts in Museums of Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey." 



November 13. Dr. Cahill, at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, "The Com- 



ing Discovery of Chinese Paintings." 



November 14. Dr. Cahill, at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, "Great 



Chinese Paintings in Far Eastern Collections." 



November 17. Dr. Cahill, at Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, 



Va., "In Search of Chinese Paintings." 



November 28. Dr. Cahill, at the Japan-America Society, Washington, 



D.C., "The Southern School in Japanese Painting." 



January 12. Dr. Stern, at Regents' Dinner, Smithsonian Institution, 



Washington, D.C., "Hokusal." 



