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On invitation, tlie following lectures were given outside the Gallery 

 by staff members : 



Jan. 29 Mr. Pope read a paper on A Chinese Lacquer Statue in the 



Nepalese Style (45.4) before the Far Eastern Section 

 of the College Art Association at the Metropolitan 

 Museum of Art, New York. Attendance: 100. 



Mar. 10 Dr. Ettinghausen lectured on Basic Facts about Oriental 



Rugs at the Women's Community Club, Kensington, Md. 

 Attendance: 121. 



Mar. 17 Dr. Ettinghausen lectured on Persian Miniature Painting 



at the Foxcroft School, Middleburg, Va. Attendance: 

 115. 



Mar. 25 Dr. Ettinghausen lectured on Islamic Art : New Ap- 

 proaches in Research at the Princeton University Bi- 

 centennial Conference on Near Eastern Culture and 

 Society, Princeton, N. J. Attendance : 65. 



Apr. 10 Mr. Pope lectured on The Freer Gallery of Art and its 



Collections at the American Association of University 

 Women, Washington, D. C. Attendance: 30. 



The Auditorium was used for meetings as follows : 



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Oct. 9 Bureau of Economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Attendance: 250. 

 Oct. 10 Bureau of Economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Attendance: 275. 

 Oct. 11 Bureau of Economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Attendance: 260. 

 Nov. 20 Office of the Attorney General, Conference on the Control 



of Juvenile Delinquency. Attendance: 63. 

 Nov. 21 Office of the Attorney General, Conference on the Control 



of Juvenile Delinquency. Attendance : 50. 

 Dec. 3 Dr. John L. Keddy, Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian 



Institution. Attendance: 28. 



Apr. 15 American Oriental Society, Annual Meeting. Attendance: 



106. 

 Apr. 16 American Oriental Society, Annual Meeting. Attendance: 



83. 

 Apr. 17 American Oriental Society, Annual Meeting. Attendance: 



46. 



Members of the staff traveled outside of Washington for professional 

 purposes as follows : 



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Sept 30-Oct. 23 Mr. Pope in Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Ann Arbor, 



Boston, Cambridge, and New York to examine objects 

 belonging to museums, private collections, and dealers. 



Nov. 4-13 Mr. Wenley in Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis, and 



Ann Arbor to examine objects belonging to museums, 

 private collections, and dealers. 



