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meetings, and on May 10, 1959, in a television show, “The 25th Hour,” 
concerning the history of miniatures, showing examples from the Na- 
tional Collection of Fine Arts permanent collection. He served on 
the Committee on Liturgical Arts of the Rock Spring Congregational 
Church, Arlington, Va., contributing three talks on the fine arts in a 
series of 12. He spoke on “Henry Ward Ranger, Painter and Bene- 
factor,” at the Art League of Manatee County, Bradenton, Fla., Feb- 
ruary 24, 1959. He became a member of the Committee for the 
Preservation of American Art, New York City, which awarded three 
heroic sculptures by Karl Bitter (1867-1915) to the city of Indian- 
apolis in a national competition, and served for the third year on the 
Cultural Presentations Committee, Operations Coordinating Board, 
which advises the Department of State in the selection of artists for its 
oversea program. 
On June 1-3, 1959, Mr. Beggs attended meetings of the Interna- 
tional Institute for Conservation and the opening of the American 
Association of Museums meetings in Pittsburgh. 
Mrs. Pope gave a talk on May 8 at the University of Virginia in 
Charlottesville on the Traveling Exhibition Service program. She 
attended openings of the Dutch Master Drawings in Washington, 
New York, Cleveland, and Chicago, and the meetings of the American 
Association of Museums in Pittsburgh. Miss Acton represented the 
Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service in a panel] discussion at 
the meetings of the Southeast Museums Conference at Winston-Salem, 
N.C., between October 15 and 18, 1958. 
The staff participated in the organization of three important special 
commemorative exhibitions in cooperation with other institutions. 
At the request of the James Monroe Memorial Foundation, a bicenten- 
nial exhibition was shown in the rotunda of the Natural History 
Building, a special brochure and catalog being published. An exhibi- 
tion requested on behalf of the Lincoln Sesquicentennial] Commis- 
sion was organized, with the assistance of the Lincoln Museum, and 
shown at the Washington Cathedral. It was also exhibited in New 
York at the Sheraton Park Hotel in connection with the Independ- 
ence Stamp Show. In cooperation with the National Academy of 
Design, a Henry Ward Ranger Centennial exhibition was shown in 
New York City during the fall, and circulated in part from January 
through June. 
Rowland Lyon served as juror for the following four shows: To- 
day’s Artists in Charles County (Maryland); Westmoreland Hills 
Art Fair; Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society of 
Washington, D.C.; and the Arts Club Outdoor Art Fair. 
Twenty-seven paintings in oil on canvas from the permanent col- 
lections were cleaned and revarnished, 1 was relined, and 58 picture 
frames were repaired and refinished with the assistance of Buildings 
