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January 19. Dr. Ettinghausen, at Hermitage Foundation, Norfolk, Va., 



"Islamic Art in the Mediterranean World." 



February 3. Dr. Ettinghausen began teaching a semester's course on 



"Islamic Painting" at New York University. 



February 6. Dr. Cahill began an academic course of lectures on Chinese 



paintings at the American University, Washington, D.C. 



February 14-15. Dr. Ettinghausen, at University of Southern Illinois, Car- 



bondale. 111., "Mughal Painting : A Critical Comparison." 



February 23. Dr. Stern, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 



"Japanese Paintings of the Tokugawa Period." 



February 24. Dr. Cahill, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Wash- 



ington, D.C, "Chinese Art and the Contemporary West." 



March 10. Dr. Ettinghausen, at the Foreign Service Institute, Wash- 



ington, D.C, "Islamic Art." 



March 16. Dr. Cahill, at Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., "Great 



Chinese Paintings in Far Eastern Collections." 



March 24. Dr. Ettinghausen, at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn., 



"Islamic Art." 



March 30. Dr. Cahill, at the Chinese Art Society, Asia House, New 



York City, "Chinese Art and the Contemporary West." 



April 3. Dr. Pope, at the Far Eastern Luncheon Association, Carl- 



ton Hotel, Washington, D.C, "The Chinese Exhibition." 

 (Not illustrated.) 



April 12. Dr. Stern, at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birming- 



ham, Ala., "Japanese Painting of the Tokugawa Period." 



April 15. R. J. Gettens, at the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine 



Arts, New York University, "A Proposed Handbook for 

 Analysis of Materials of Art and Archaeology." 



May 23. R. J. Gettens, at the American Association of Museums 



meeting, Detroit, Mich., "Maya Blue : An Unsolved Prob- 

 lem in Ancient Pigment." 



May 23. Elisabeth West, at the American Association of Museums 



meeting, Detroit, Mich., "Efflorescent Salts on Museum 

 Objects." 



June 6-11. Dr. Cahill, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 



D.C, gave seven lectures on "The Chinese Exhibition." 



Members of the staff traveled outside Washington on official busi- 

 ness as follows : 



I960 



July 1. 



July 18- 

 December 16. 



Dr. Stern, in New York City, examined objects at dealers 

 and in museums and private collections. 



Dr. Ettinghausen attended the 25th International Con- 

 gress of Orientalists in Moscow on behalf of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution and the American Council of Learned 

 Societies, as well as the Cultural Seminar on Art and 

 Archaeology of the CENTO Powers, in Ankara, on be- 

 half of the Department of State. He also studied Is- 

 lamic objects, paintings, and manuscripts in the museums 

 and libraries of Dublin, London, Oxford, Paris, Hamburg, 

 Bukhara, Kabul, Teheran, Damascus, Jerusalem, Qusair, 

 'Ajnra, Cairo, Istanbul, Ankara, Konya, Bursa, Vienna, 

 Milan, Florence, Bologna, Rome, Palermo, and Madrid. 



