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the striking in 1855, at the United States mint, of pattern coins for 

 Peru. Mrs. Stefanelli prepared for publication a select numismatic 

 bibliography comprising about 5,000 entries arranged in a topical 

 order. 



In July and August, chairman of the department of Armed Forces 

 history Mendel L. Peterson, and museum specialist Alan B. Albright, 

 investigated two underwater sites in Bermuda through the cooperation 

 of E. B. Tucker of the Government of Bermuda. At the close of the 

 year Mr. Peterson was preparing for another diving season. He 

 finished work on a preliminary report on the marking and decoration 

 of muzzle-loading cannon. 



Philip K. Lundeberg, curator of naval history, was awarded the 

 Moncado Prize of the American Military Institute for his publication 

 on "The German Naval Critique of the U-Boat Campaign, 1915-1918." 



Melvin H. Jackson, associate curator of naval history, in cooperation 

 with Howard I. Chapelle, completed a revision of plans of the schooner 

 Prince de Neufchatel preparatory to the construction of a model of 

 that handsome privateer. Dr. Jackson also completed a reassessment 

 of the battle of Negro Head in 1814, involving Revenue cutter Eagle, 

 H.M. sloop Dispatch, and H.M. frigate Narcissus. 



Alan B. Albright, museum specialist, completed a paper on the pres- 

 ervation of organic materials recovered from underwater sites. 



EXHIBITIONS 



A significant milestone in the history of the exhibits program at 

 the Smithsonian Institution was passed when the equivalent of 10 

 exhibit halls on the first and second floors of the Museum of History 

 and Teclinology were presented to the public on January 23, 1964. 

 These exhibition areas, totaling more than 75,000 square feet of attrac- 

 tive and instructive displays, include the Flag Hall, First Ladies Hall, 

 and the halls of Everyday Life in the American Past, American 

 Costume, Farm Machinery, Light Machinery, Tools, Vehicles, Rail- 

 roads, a portion of Heavy Machinery, the Greenough statue of George 

 Washington flanked by eight cases of outstanding national treasures, 

 the centrally located Foucault pendulum, and a temporary exhibition 

 which presents examples of exhibits to be installed in other halls of the 

 museum. This achievement was made possible through nearly 8 years 

 of advanced planning, design of exhibition halls, and design and pro- 

 duction of individual displays, some of which had been placed on tem- 

 porary exhibition in the Arts and Industries Building prior to their 

 installation in the new museum. It could not have been accomplished 

 without the contribution of knowledge and of talent by many individ- 

 uals on the curatorial staff, the Office of Exliibits, the Buildings Man- 

 agement Division, and private contractors. 



