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Italian science museums. In addition, he competed articles on Gali- 

 leo's preoccupation with the measurement of time, on a comparison 

 of Galileo's instruments, and on the craftsmen who produced the 

 mstruments used by Galileo. 



Associate curator Edwin A. Battison, assisted by summer intern 

 Bruce H. Wliite, completed the first draft of a translation of Jacques 

 Besson's Theatrum Instrumentarum et Machinarum from the 16th- 

 century French. This significant contribution to the liistory of 

 technology has not previously been available in English. 



Curator of transportation Howard I. Chapelle made three trips to 

 Spain to inspect the reconstruction of Columbus's Santa Mana being 

 produced by the Cardona Yard in Barcelona for exhibition at the 

 World's Fair in New York, and to do research on Spanish shipbuild- 

 ing of the 18th and early 19th centuries. 



Grace Rogers Cooper, curator of textiles, completed her monograph 

 on the Robertson and the Clark dolphin and cherub sewing machines 

 of the 1850's. At the end of the year she was studying textiles at the 

 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 



Paul V. Gardner, curator of ceramics and glass, visited 64 museums, 

 private collections, and glass factories in 11 European countries 

 between September and December, to evaluate the recently donated 

 Syz collection of 18th-century porcelains, to meet and confer with 

 collectors and museum personnel in the ceramic and glass field, and to 

 examine new exhibit tecliniques used in ceramic and glass displays. 



Jacob Kainen, curator of graphic arts, made trips to Sarasota, Phil- 

 adelphia, and New York City for material relating to his study of the 

 Dutch engraver Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617). He served as juror 

 for two art exhibitions: the 1963 All-Army Art Contest at Fort 

 George G. Meade, Md., and the 25th National Exhibition of the Soci- 

 ety of Washington Printmakers. He also had an exliibition of his 

 own paintings at the Roko Gallery in New York City. 



On a trip to Europe, Eugene Ostroff, associate curator in charge of 

 the section of photography, visited museums, photographic equipment 

 factories, dealers, galleries, private collectors, and photographers for 

 the purpose of acquiring apparatus and prints for exhibits and of 

 establishing contacts for exchanges. 



Peter C. Welsh, curator under the chairman of the department of 

 civil history, completed three manuscripts bearing the following titles : 

 "The Metallic Bench Plane : An American Contribution to Hand Tool 

 Design," "Hand Tools as Decorative Objects," and "Woodworking 

 Tools: 1600-1900." 



Assistant curator Doris Esch Borthwick completed a typescript of 

 the letters of Charles Wilkes, leader of the United States Exploring 

 Expedition. 



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