10 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1964 



LECTURES 



Elmer A. Sperry, Jr., eminent inventor, delivered the fifth Lester D. 

 Gardner lecture, "Early Airplane Instruments," in the auditorium of 

 the Freer Gallery of Art on the evening of September 27. 



Dr. James A. Van Allen, professor of physics. University of Iowa, 

 gave the 29th Annual James Arthur Lecture on the Sun on the evening 

 of December 12, 1963, in the auditorium of the Natural History Build- 

 ing. His subject was "Some General Aspects of the Earth's Radiation 

 Belts." 



Ben Norris, painter and professor of art, University of Hawaii, 

 delivered an illustrated lecture, "Images from Hawaii — From Captain 

 Cook to Contemporary Crossroads," on January 20, 1964, in the audi- 

 torium of the Natural History Building. This lecture was sponsored 

 by the Hawaii State Society of Washmgton, D.C. 



George Bass, special assistant for underwater archeology, Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania University Musemn, lectured on "Diving 3,000 

 Years into the Past" in the auditorium of the Natural History Build- 

 ing on the evening of January 24, 1964. This illustrated lecture was 

 sponsored jointly by the Smithsonian Institution and the Archaeo- 

 logical Institute of America. 



The Honorable Desmond Guinness, president of the Irish Georgian 

 Society, gave an illustrated lecture on "18th Century Georgian Archi- 

 tecture in Ireland" in the auditorium of the Natural History Building 

 on the evening of February 8, 1964. 



The first Edwin A. Link Lecture, "Training by Simulation," was 

 delivered by Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., in the auditorium of the 

 Natural History Building on the evening of February 19, 1964. This 

 series of lectures, made possible by a grant from the Link Foundation, 

 is administered by the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with 

 the U.S. Office of Education. 



Miss Sylvia Kenney, associate professor of music at Bryn Mawr 

 College and visiting associate professor of music at Yale University, 

 gave a lecture on the subject "Paintings, Chronicles, and Stylistic 

 Criteria as Guides for the Performance of 15th Century Music" in 

 the auditorium of the Natural History Building on the evening of 

 May 22, 1964. 



Several lectures sponsored by the Freer Gallery of Art and the 

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



THE KENNEDY CENTER 



In January the National Cultural Center, a bureau of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, by act of Congress was renamed the John F. Ken- 

 nedy Center for the Performing Arts as a memorial to our late Presi- 

 dent. By this same act, appropriation of $15.5 million was authorized 



