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of tobacco, agriculture and food crops, methods of shaping stone, and 

 historic metal trade goods, as well as interpretations of prehistoric 

 Indian cultures of iUaska, California, and the southwestern United 

 States. The exhibits were designed by Terrell Bridges. Contract 

 construction in the second of two halls of North Amerian archeology 

 was completed in June 19G0. Dr. Waldo R. Wedel, curator of arche- 

 ology, is responsible for the scientific planning of all exhibits in both 

 of these halls. 



Curator of ethnology Saul H. Riesenberg and Associate Curator 

 Eugene I. Knez cooperated with Dorothy Guthrie of the exhibits 

 staff in the development of the architectural layout for the "People 

 of the Pacific" exhibit, which will interpret the material culture of 

 Oceania and southeast Asia. Associate Curators Knez and Gordon 

 D. Gibson also consulted with Mrs. Guthrie in developing a tentative 

 layout of exhibits in an adjoining hall which will be devoted to Afri- 

 can and eastern and central Asiatic peoples. 



Script for the hall of physics, astronomy, and mathematics was 

 completed by Dr. Robert P. Multhauf, head curator of science and 

 technology, with the assistance of Consultants Peter Diamadopoulos 

 and Julian H. Bigelow. The unit designs were developed by Ben- 

 jamin W. Lawless. In August 1959 one of the exhibits for this hall, 

 a full-scale replica of the shop and tools of Henry Fitz, this country's 

 first commercial telescope-maker, was installed in the Arts and In- 

 dustries Building. Special exhibitions presented by the division of 

 physical sciences during the past year were the first cash register, a 

 gift of the National Cash Register Co., the development of the py- 

 rometer (commemorating the inventions of Edward Brown), a loan 

 display of machinery used in compiling the United States census, an 

 exhibit of American surveying instruments, and a series of astrolabes 

 received from the International Business Machines Corporation. 



Curator Eugene S. Ferguson supervised the trial erection of a pre- 

 Civil War machine shop and the restoration of machine tools which 

 will be shown in this shop in the Museum of History and Technology. 

 Associate Curator Edwin A. Battison supervised the erection of a 

 clockmaker's shop which will be a featured exhibit in the hall of 

 light machinery. 



Curator Ploward I. Chapelle, with the assistance of William Geo- 

 ghegan, drafted drawings and specifications for the construction of 

 18 models of historic ship types not represented in the Museum's 

 collections, and continued to supervise the repair and restoration of 

 models in the watercraft collection. 



The major portion of the hall of electricity script has been com- 

 pleted by Acting Curator W. James King, Jr., aided by consultants 



