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research involves studies in visual materials, such as painting and 

 prints related to American and English interior decoration of domes- 

 tic dwellings in the I7th, 18tli, and 19th centuries. Her studies outside 

 of Washington have enabled her to advance projects on furnishings 

 and exhibits for a Smithsonian hall of Every Day Life in the Ameri- 

 can Past. 



John N. Pearce, assistant curator of cultural history, visited Wil- 

 mington, Del., and New York City in April and ^lay to carry out 

 research on the Meeks family, cabinetmakers in New York in the 18th 

 and 19 th centuries. 



George T. Turner, acting curator of philately and postal history, 

 accompanied by Francis J. McCall, associate curator, attended the 

 11th annual American Stamp Dealers' Show in New York, November 

 18-22. A 12-frame display prepared by the division of philately and 

 postal history was exhibited and aroused much interest. Mr. IVIcCall, 

 while in Boston in September, continued research on the establish- 

 ment of a post office in the Colony of New England ; he also examined 

 Hawaiian missionary correspondence of the period 1820-50 in the 

 Houghton Library of Harvard University, in connection with his 

 research on this subject. 



In preparation for new exhibits for the Museum of History and 

 Technology, Dr. Vladimir Clain-Stefanelli, acting curator of numis- 

 matics, journeyed to New York, Omaha, and Chicago to discuss nu- 

 mismatic problems with various specialists and to examine laboratory 

 and exhibit techniques being used by different institutions. Mrs. 

 Elvira Clain-Stefanelli, associate curator of numismatics, has carried 

 on her bibliographical research on Greek metrology. 



Mendel L. Peterson, head curator of Armed Forces history, spent 

 the first half of July in Havana, Cuba, and Port Koyal, Jamaica. In 

 Havana he examined several Spanish bronze cannons in Cabana For- 

 tress in connection with his study of the marking and decoration of 

 early artillery. In Jamaica he joined the underwater explorations 

 operating from the Sea Diver II. United States Navy divers had 

 been working there for some weeks, devoting most of their time to 

 removing silt and coral overburden from the site. The material re- 

 covered led to a probable conclusion that this might have been the site 

 of a cooldiouse of the typo known to have been used in Port Royal. 

 On a subsequent trip to Jamaica, between July 27 and August 11, 

 Mr. Peterson rejoined the expedition, which by that time had begun 

 to recover a large number of objects from the site behind Fort James. 

 It is believed that Port Royal is the richest 17th-century site in the 

 Western Hemisphere. Several years of hard digging will be required 

 to exploit it completely. The research sponsored by Edwin A. Link 

 and the National Geographic Society in this particular area, in which 



