Other Activities 



LECTURES 



In 1931 the Smithsonian Institution received a bequest from James 

 Arthur, of New York City, a part of the income from which was to 

 be used to endow an annual lecture on some aspect of the sun. The 

 28th Arthur lecture was delivered in the auditorium of the Natural 

 History Building on the evening of May 8, 1962, by Dr. Martin 

 Schwarzschild, Eugene Higgins professor of astronomy, Princeton 

 University. His subject was "Astronomical Photography from the 

 Stratosphere." 



Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, USAF (Ret.), delivered the third 

 Lester D. Gardner lecture, on "Early Blind Flying," in the auditorium 

 of the Natural History Building on the evening of September 28, 



1961. This lecture was published in full in the general appendix of 

 the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution for 1961 (pp. 337-355) . 



Dr. Rodney Young, professor of classical archaeology, University of 

 Pennsylvania, lectured on "Gordion on the Royal Road" in the audito- 

 rium of the Natural History Building on the evening of February 8, 



1962. This was sponsored jointly by the Smithsonian Institution and 

 the Archaeological Institute of America. 



Several lectures were sponsored by the Freer Gallery of Art and the 

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

 bureaus. 



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