Other Activities 



LECTURES 



C. Fayette Taylor, emeritus professor of automotive engineering, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Teclinology, delivered the fourth Lester D. 

 Gardner lecture, on "Aircraft Propulsion : A Review of the Evolution 

 of Aircraft Povrerplants," in the auditorimn of the Freer Gallery of 

 Art on the evening of October 5, 1962. This lecture was published in 

 full in the general appendix of the Annual Eeport of the Board of 

 Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for 1962 (pp. 245-298) . 



Dr. Jolin Howard Young, W. H. C. Vickers associate professor of 

 archeology, Johns Hopkins University, lectured on "The Royal Sculp- 

 tures of Commagene" in the auditorium of the Freer Gallery of Art 

 on the evening of February 8, 1963. This lecture was sponsored 

 jointly by the Smithsonian Institution and the Archaeological Institute 

 of America. 



Hugh Wakefield, keeper of circulation, Victoria and Albert Mu- 

 seum, London, England, lectured on "English Victorian Glass" in the 

 auditorium of the Freer Gallery of Art on the evening of April 24, 

 1963. 



Several lectures were sponsored by the Freer Gallery of Art and the 

 National Gallery of Art. These are listed in the reports of these 

 bureaus. 



SCIENCE INFORMATION EXCHANGE 



The Science Information Exchange receives, organizes, and dissemi- 

 nates information on scientific research in progress. Its mission is to 

 facilitate planning and management of scientific research activities 

 supported by Government and non-Government agencies and institu- 

 tions by promoting the exchange of information that concerns subject 

 matter, distribution, level of effort, and other data pertaining to cur- 

 rent research in the prepublication stage. It helps program directors 

 and administrators to avoid imwanted duplication and to determine 

 the most advantageous distribution of research funds. It serves the 

 entire scientific community by informing individual investigators 

 about who is currently working on problems in their special fields. 



The reorganization and expansion of the Exchange to provide cur- 

 rent research information in the physical sciences, in addition to the 

 life sciences, have constituted the major task during the past year 

 and have progressed quite satisfactorily. The new physical sciences 



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