SECRETARY'S REPORT 59 



reconstruction of the Watt engine — were opened to the public in Jan- 

 uaiy. It is planned to open the series of exhibits on refrigeration 

 and the Diesel engine when the adjoining Civil Engineering Hall is 

 opened in July 1964. Kobert M. Vogel is responsible for planning 

 this hall's contents. The layout and units designs have been prepared 

 by exhibits designer Harry Hart. 



A considerable number of the scale models of historic types of 

 vessels from the museum's outstanding watercraft collection have been 

 placed in free-standing exhibition cases in the American Merchant 

 Shipping Hall by exhibits specialists James A. KJnowles, Jr., under the 

 supervision of Howard I. Chapelle, cui-ator-in-charge of the division 

 of transportation. 



A temporary exhibition of communications satellites is being in- 

 stalled in the Hall of Electricity; as a nucleus for this exliibit the 

 back-up satellite for Telstar I — presented to the museum on July 10, 

 1963, the first anniversary of its launching — will be on view. Installa- 

 tion of cases for permanent exhibits which will interpret current- 

 electricity, was nearing completion at year's end. These exhibits 

 have been planned by Bernard S. Finn, associate curator in charge 

 of the division of electricity. Exhibits designer Nadya Kayloff has 

 nearly completed the design on these displays. 



In the Halls of Pharmacy, Medicine, and Dentistry installation 

 Reared completion of an 1890-period drugstore, of period interiors 

 depicting a portion of a room in the Massachusetts General Hospital, 

 and a midwestern dentist's office. The Old World Apothecary Shop, 

 formerly on view in the Arts and Industries Buildmg, has been moved 

 and is being installed in the new Hall of Pharmacy. Two new ex- 

 hibits destined for exliibition in the new museum were placed on 

 temporary display in the Arts and Industries Building. One depicts 

 in diorama form Dr. Philip S. Physick removing a large paratoid 

 gland tumor in the circular room of the Pennsylvania Hospital in 

 1805, long before the discovery of anesthesia. The other is an en- 

 larged model of the human ear donated by the Lambert Institute of 

 Otalogy of New York City. Dr. Sami K. Hamameh, curator-in- 

 charge of medical sciences, assisted by Dr. Alfred R. Henderson, con- 

 sultant, are completing exhibit plans for the medical science exhibits, 

 m cooperation with Jolin Clendening, exhibits designer. 



The Foucault pendulum, prepared by the California Institute of 

 Technology and exhibited in the central rotunda of the new museum, 

 has fascinated visitors since the opening of the building. The divi- 

 sion of physical sciences, placed in charge of this exhibit, has been 

 making careful studies of its operation and of the problem of inter- 

 preting it to the public. A large graphic explanation has been 

 planned by Dr. Walter F. Cannon, curator-in-charge of the division, 



