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June 14 Dr. Ettinghausen, at the National Gallery of Art, "The 



Last Flowering of Iranian Art." Attendance, 375. 



June 20 Dr. Cahill, at the Conference on the China for Presidents, 



Deans and Senior Faculty Members of New York State 

 Colleges, Pinebrook, Saranac Lake, N.Y., "Chinese Art 

 and Its Background in Thought." Attendance, 35. 



Members of the staff traveled outside Wasliington on official business 

 as follows : 



1963 



May 8-July 9 Dr. J. A. Poi>e, in Europe, attended the opening of the 



new Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, in Stockholm, 

 Sweden. He also saw other collections in Sweden, 

 Denmark, The Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, 

 France, and England: in numerous museums, private 

 collections, and dealers. 



June 14-July 15 Miss E. H. West, in Europe, visited numerous museums in 



Italy, France, and England; she also attended a sym- 

 posium on art conservation sponsored by the Conserva- 

 tion Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York 

 University, held at the Institut Royal du Patrimoine 

 Artistique, in Brussels, Belgium. 

 June 17-N o v e m- W. B. Trousdale, in the Orient and Europe, examined 

 ber 22. objects in museums and private collections, and visited 



archeological sites, in Japan, Taiwan, India, Afghanis- 

 tan, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden, and 

 England. 

 June 29-July 1 Dr. J. F. Cahill, in New York City, attended the exhibi- 

 tion, "Evolution of the Buddha Image," at Asia House 

 Gallery ; and examined objects for numerous dealers. 



July 15-19 Mrs. B. M. Usilton, in Chicago, 111., attended the annual 



meetings of the American Library Association. 

 August 10 Dr. Pope, in Williamsburg, Va., examined pottery for Co- 

 lonial Williamsburg. 

 August 20 Dr. H. P. Stern, in New York City, examined miscellan- 

 eous objects for a dealer. 



August 21-22 Dr. Stern, in Philadelphia, examined miscellaneous objects 



at the Museum of Art and at the University Museum ; 

 the latter included the collection of Edmund Zalinski. 

 August 29-Novem- T. Sugiura, in Japan, met with other restorers, ordered 

 ber 22. special silks and other supplies unobtainable in the 



United States, and saw numerous objects in museums, 

 private collections, and dealers. 

 September 1-Octo- Mr. Gettens, in Europe, attended meetings of the ICOM 

 ber 16. Committee for Scientific Museum Laboratories held in 



Leningrad and Moscow. He also visited museums and 

 laboratories in these two cities, and in Vienna, Miinich, 

 Ziirich, Stuttgart, Brussels, Paris, London, and Dublin, 

 examining objects at the British Museum in London, 

 the Mus^e Cernuschi in Paris, and the Institut Royal du 

 Patrimoine Artistique in Brussels. 



