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Nov. 15. Dr. Ettinghausen gave a lecture at All Souls Unitarian Churcb, 



Washington, D. C, on "Travels in the Near East." (Illustrated.) 

 Attendance, 80. 



Nov. 25. Dr. Ettinghausen gave a lecture at the Baltimore Museum of Art 



on "The World of Muslim Art." (Illustrated.) Attendance, 75. 



Jan. 5. Di'. Ettinghausen gave a lecture at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, 



Pa., on "Landscapes and Monuments in Iran." (Illustrated.) 

 Attendance, 150. 



Apr. 25. Dr. Ettinghausen gave an illustrated lecture to the International 



Avicenna Congress at the University of Teheran, Teheran, Iran, 

 on "The Art of Iran at the Time of Avicenna." Attendance, 200. 

 (Dr. Ettinghausen extended to the Congress, in Persian, the 

 thanks of the American Delegation. This lecture is to be pub- 

 lished in the Report of the Avicenna Congress for the Persian 

 Government.) 



May 17. Mr. Gettens gave a lecture to the Colorists of Washington and 



Baltimore at the Washington Y. W. C. A., on "The Story of Early 

 Blue Pigments." (Illustrated.) Attendance, 22. 



May 21. Mr. Pope gave a lecture to the Kiln Club of Washington in the 



auditorium of the U. S. National Museum, on "The Qualities of 

 a Show-Worthy Pot." (Illustrated.) Attendance, 70. 



June 9. Dr. Ettinghausen gave a lecture to the Iran-America Society, in 



Teheran, Iran, on "The Development of Iranian Art in the Mos- 

 lem Period." (Illustrated.) Attendance, 200. 



Members of the staff traveled outside of Washington on official busi- 

 ness as follows: 



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Sept. 21- As a representative of the Smithsonian Institution, Mr. Gettens, 

 Oct. 29 associate in technical research, attended the Conference on 



Museum Laboratories held in Paris on September 25 under the 

 auspices of the International Council of Museums. Mr. Gettens 

 also traveled in Italy, Belgium, and England where he visited 

 museums and laboratories to see the work being done and meth- 

 ods and techniques used in connection with the maintenance, 

 care, and restoration of museum collections. 



Oct. 3-5. Mr. Wenley attended the meeting of the Far Eastern Ceramic 

 Group in Birmingham, Mich., and Cranbrook Museum of Art, 

 Bloomfield Hills, Mich., where he read a paper for Mr. Gettens 

 entitled "Seeing Red — True and False Vermilion on Early 

 Chinese Ceramics." At the Universit.v of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 

 Mich., he conferred with Prof. Max Loehr regarding use of the 

 Freer Fund. 



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Jan. 8-25. Mr. Pope was in London for the Loan Exhibition of Chinese Blue 



and White Porcelain held by the Oriental Ceramic Society, took 



part in a specimen meeting of the Society. 

 Apr. 12-18. Mr. Stern, in New York, attended the meetings of the American 



Oriental Society, April 13-15, delivering a paper on "A Pair of 



Sesshfi Screens" (illustrated) on April 13. 



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