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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1953 



Members of the staff tra^^eled outside of Washington on oflScial 

 business as follows : 



1952 



July 7- 

 Sept. 23 



Mr, Weuley went to Japan to serve as chairman of the committee 

 representing five American Mnsenms in which the Japanese Loan 

 Exhibition is being held. This committee was sent to advise with 

 the Japanese Government concerning the contents of the exhibition. 

 Sept. 23- Mr. Pope, in Europe, carried out further research on problems related 

 Dec. 22. to the Chinese porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine ; visited museums 



and collections and consulted with scholars and connoisseurs in 

 London, Glasgow, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Paris. 



In addition, 5 members of the staff made a total of 18 trips outside 

 of Washington on official business. 



Members of the staff held honorary posts and undertook additional 

 duties outside the Gallery as follows : 



Mr. Wenley : 



Mr. Pope : 



Dr. Ettinghausen ; 



Research Professor of Oriental Art, University of Michigan. 



Member, Board of United States Civil Service Examiners at 

 Washington, D. C, for the Smithsonian Institution. 



Member, Board of Trustees, Textile Museum, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Member, Council of the Far Eastern Ceramic Group. 



Member, Board of Trustees of the Hermitage Foundation, 

 Norfolk, Va. 



Member, Visiting Committee, Dumbarton Oaks Research 

 Library and Collection. 



Member, Smithsonian Art Commission. 



Member, Consultative Committee, Ars Orientalis. 



Chairman, Louise Wallace Hackney Scholarship Committee 

 of the American Oriental Society. 



Member, Board of Governors of the Washington Society of 

 the Archaeological Institute of America; the Board met 

 at the Freer Gallery of Art, on July 23, 1952, and on May 

 13, 1953. 



President, Far Eastern Ceramic Group. 



Art Editor, Far Eastern Quarterly. 



Member, Editorial Board of the Archives of the Chinese 

 Art Society of America. 



President, Southern Association of Exeter Alumni in Wash- 

 ington. 



Accompanied 5 students and 1 teacher from the Garrison- 

 Forest School, Baltimore, Md., through the Japanese exhi- 

 bition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C, 

 February 12, 1953. 



Research Professor of Islamic Art, University of Michigan. 



Near Eastern editor of Ars Orientalis. 



Member, Editorial Board, The Art Bulletin. 



Trustee, American Research Center in Egypt. 



Member, Comitate Internationale di Patronato, Museo Inter- 

 nazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy. 



Member, Editorial Advisory Committee, Studies in Art and 

 Literature in Honor of Belle DaCosta Greene. 



