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West Point. Here Mr. Goins was particularly interested in the ex- 
tensive collection of artillery tubes. The library of the Military 
Academy also includes a considerable quantity of material concerning 
ordnance boards, which is missing from the Ordnance Department 
records in the National Archives. In February 1959 he made a short 
trip to Harpers Ferry, W. Va., to examine records in the custody 
of the National Park Service pertaining to a study he is preparing 
on the Hall rifle. 
Lucile McCain, assistant registrar, visited museums in London and 
in Leiden, Holland, between September 17 and October 27, 1958, to 
examine their registration methods. At the British Museum (both 
Natural History and Bloomsbury), the Victoria and Albert Museum, 
and the Rijksmuseum in Leiden Miss McCain learned much from 
the methods in use, particularly as they refer to customs matters 
and to plans for reviewing permanent files after 25 years. 
Members of the staff of the office of exhibits traveled during the 
year in order to examine exhibits techniques used by various museums, 
with a view to their application to the new halls in the Museum of 
History and Technology and the Museum of Natural History. 
John E. Anglim, chief exhibits specialist, spent the period April 
24 to June 20, 1958, in Europe, where he visited 16 cities in 10 coun- 
tries and inspected about 70 museums and attended the World’s Fair 
in Brussels. His general impression of European museums is that 
nearly everywhere they are attempting to bring their exhibitions up to 
higher standards. 
R. O. Hower, supervisory exhibits specialist, visited New York in 
November 1958, to examine new exhibition techniques in the Ameri- 
can Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of 
Art, where many new techniques are being developed in the exhibits 
laboratories. 
Benjamin Lawless, supervisory exhibits specialist, and Robert Wid- 
der, exhibits designer, visited New York between September 16 and 
18, 1958, to discuss with specialists various types of illumination for 
the new exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution. In March 1959 Mr. 
Lawless visited the new Museum of Military History and Science at 
the U.S. Military Academy, at West Point, where he examined the 
extensive modernization that has been completed there. In May 1959, 
accompanied by James A. Mahoney, exhibits designer, he went to 
Chicago and Cleveland to examine various types of exhibition cases 
now being devised or in use. 
Between August 19 and 22, 1958, Judith Borgogni, exhibits de- 
signer, and Violet Moyer, exhibits worker, went to New York to 
study exhibit techniques and to discuss trends in the exhibition of 
costumes and fashions. Among institutions visited were the Museum 
