1958 
November 4. 
1959 
January 6. 
February 10. 
March 10. 
April 7. 
SECRETARY’S REPORT hays" 
Basil Gray, Keeper of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum, 
London, England. “Five Hundred Years of Chinese Wall 
Painting at Tun-huang.” Attendance, 298. 
Dr. Wén Fong, Princeton University. ‘How to Look at 
Chinese Paintings.” Attendance, 298. 
Miss Elizabeth Lyons, Queens College, New York City. 
“Temple Paintings of Thailand.” Attendance, 234. 
Harold P. Stern, Associate Curator of Japanese Art, 
Freer Gallery of Art. “Popular Paintings of Tokugawa, 
Japan.” Attendance, 157. 
Dr. John A. Pope, Assistant Director, Freer Gallery of Art. 
“Hinduism and Buddhism at Angkor.” Attendance, 326. 
Outside organizations used the auditorium as follows: 
1958 
August 13. 
Ikebana International held a meeting during which. Miss 
Seikoh Ogawa gave a demonstration and illustrated lec- 
ture on “Japanese Flower Arrangement.” Attendance, 428. 
September 23-26. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Marketing Workshop, 
1959 
January 8-9. 
January 13-20. 
January 27. 
Tebruary 2. 
February 19. 
April 2. 
April 14— 
June 29. 
May 6. 
May 20. 
June 2. 
June 18. 
held meetings with attendance as follows: 82, 96, 83, and 
127 ; total, 388. 
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, federal Extension Serv- 
ice, held meetings with attendance as follows: 96 and 81; 
total, 177. 
The U.S. Department of Agriculture held all-day meetings of 
Administrative Conference (Telephone) with attendance as 
follows: 121 and 124; total, 245. 
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Under Secretary’s Office, 
held a meeting of the Farmers’ Union. Attendance, 156. 
The District of Columbia Psychological Association held an 
evening meeting. Attendance, 62. 
The U.S. Department of Health, Wducation, and Welfare, 
Food and Drug Administration, held a seminar on “Meta- 
bolic Fate of Drugs in Different Species.” Attendance, 167. 
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural 
Service, showed a movie on Africa. Attendance, 153. 
Twelve rehearsals were held by a group from the Smithsonian 
Institution for a musical program of 15th-century music 
using antique musical instruments. 
The U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Food 
and Drug Administration, held an all-day meeting. 
Attendance, 82. 
The Smithsonian Institution sponsored an illustrated lecture 
by H. Alan Lloyd on “Pre-Renaissance Clocks and Their 
Influence.” Attendance, 92. 
The Museum Store Managers held a meeting; cochairmen 
were Mrs. Elizabeth Ostertag, National Gallery of Art, and 
Mrs. Lnor O. West, Freer Gallery of Art. A talk on “Copy- 
right” was given by Richard MacCarteney, Copyright Divi- 
sion, Library of Congress. Attendance, 35. 
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Extension Service, 
and The 4-H Club held a meeting. Attendance, 112. 
