38 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia and the Fry collection of 
medical prints in New Haven and examined the outstanding micro- 
scope collection of Dr. George S. M. Cowan in New York. He also 
made trips to institutions and individuals in the Eastern States to 
study problems of historical importance in the medical field. 
Dr. Philip W. Bishop, head curator of arts and manufactures, 
visited Chicago between October 26 and 29, 1958, to inspect the 
Whiting refinery and meet its officials, primarily to discuss the origins 
of thermal cracking of crude petroleum. He also visited the Museum 
of Science and Industry to see and measure the Nasmyth steam 
hammer. In November 1958 he visited the Ethyl Corp. and the Esso 
Standard Oil Co. in New York to discuss matters of mutual interest 
pertaining to the Hall of Petroleum of the Museum of History and 
Technology. Between January 19 and 23, 1959, he visited several 
institutions in southern California, primarily to inspect nuclear re- 
search activities and to examine data on various geological formations 
as an ald to planning some of the new halls for the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution. In New York in April and June he inspected a model of a 
deep-sea drilling barge and examined details of a fluid catalytic 
cracking model. 
Between September 28 and October 4, 1958, Miss Grace L. Rogers, 
acting curator of textiles, visited New Haven, Boston, and other areas 
in New England. She made an extensive study of an original model 
of the Whitney cotton gin in the collections of the New Haven Colony 
Historical Society. At Jewett City, Conn., she examined the old 
Jacquard loom that was being assembled for the renovated Textile 
Hall of the Smithsonian Institution. The Old Slater Mill Museum in 
Pawtucket, R.I., provided a valuable opportunity to study a collection 
of old textile machinery and noted exhibition techniques. 
Paul V. Gardner, acting curator of ceramics and glass, made several 
trips during the year to Norwood, Mass., to select, list, and pack vari- 
ous pieces of rare glass presented to the Smithsonian Institution by 
Mrs. Clara W. Berwick. Between August 20 and 23, 1958, he visited 
the Corning Museum of Glass at Corning, N.Y., where he studied 
many samples of different glass objects. Here it was possible to run 
ultraviolet light tests on a number of glass objects from the Smith- 
sonian collections to determine their origin and age. From September 
8 to 15, 1958, Mr. Gardner visited New York and various points in 
New England to talk with collectors and dealers in the interest of 
obtaining additional ceramics and glass collections for the Smith- 
sonian. 
Between September 25 and 30, 1958, Jacob Kainen, curator of 
graphic arts, visited Kansas City to study the engravings of Hen- 
drick Golzius (1558-1617) in pursuance of a research project, particu- 
