SECRETARY'S REPORT 



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I960 

 January 11. 



January 13. 



January 14. 



March 10. 



March 30. 

 May 9. 



May 19. 

 May 24. 

 May 25. 

 May 25. 

 June 15. 



Members 

 as follows: 



1959 

 June 14- 

 August 12. 



Dr. Stern, in Richmond, Va., to the Council, Virginia Museum 

 of Fine Arts, "Survey of Japanese Art." Attendance, 250. 



Dr. Pope, at Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C., to Cultural 

 Affairs Officers, "Charles Lang Freer and the Freer 

 Gallery of Art." Attendance, 70. 



Dr. Cahill, at Smithsonian Institution Regents' Annual Din- 

 ner, Washington, D.C., "Ku-kung (Palace) Museum in 

 Formosa." Attendance, 26. 



Dr. Cahill, at Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., "On the 

 Dating and Attribution of Some Early Chinese Land- 

 scapes." Attendance, 150. 



Dr. Cahill, at American University, "The Haiku in Japanese 

 Poetry." Attendance, 20. 



Dr. Ettinghausen, at Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., 

 "Special Exhibition of Persian Objects Arranged for the 

 Fourth International Congress of I'ersian Art." Attend- 

 ance, 107. 



Dr. Ettinghausen, at University of Pennsylvania, Philadel- 

 phia, "Interrelationship of Near Eastern and Indian Paint- 

 ings during the Middle Ages." Attendance, 3S. 



Mr. Gettens, in Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 

 "Notes on Museum Laboratories Visited in England and 

 on the Continent, Summer 1959." Attendance, 50. 



Mr. Gettens, in Boston, at the International Council of Mu- 

 seums luncheon, "Status and Program of the Rome 

 Center." Attendance, 150. 



Mr. Gettens, in Boston, to the American Working Party of 

 the lie Abstracts, "Report on IIC Abstracts." Attend- 

 ance, 15. 



Mr. Gettens, in Chicago, to the IMicroscopy Symposium for 

 1960 (held by McCrone Associates), "Microscope Exami- 

 nation of Art Objects." Attendance, 150. 



of the staff traveled outside Wasliin^ton on official business 



Mr. Gettens began a 2-month trip to Europe in June, visit- 

 ing museums in Glasgovp and Edinburgh. He attended, in 

 Copenhagen, the Joint Session of the I COM Commission 

 for the care of paintings. This meeting was attended by 

 about 60 delegates from museum laboratories from all over 

 the world. A highlight of the session was a visit to the 

 Carbon-14 Laboratory at Copenhagen University. He 

 attended meetings of the International Council of Museums 

 in Stockholm and visited several of the museums there, 

 paying special attention to the world-famed collections of 

 Oriental art and tlie newly established laboratory in the 

 Museum and Office of Royal Antiquities. He viewed Far 

 Eastern antiquities in the private collection of His Ma- 

 jesty King Gustav VI, at the Royal Palace. He went with 

 the Conference to Drottningholiu Palace where all mem- 

 bers had been invited to meet the King, see the fine collec- 



