136 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
1959 
January 15. Dr. Ettinghausen, at the annual Regents’ dinner, Smith- 
sonian Institution, ‘Objects Dealing with Christmas 
Themes in the Freer Gallery Collections.” Attendance 
34, 
January 16. Mr. Stern, to the Japan-American Society, Georgetown 
Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., ‘‘Hokusai.” 
Attendance, 30. 
January 29. Dr. Cahill, to the College Art Association, Cleveland, Ohio, 
“‘Criteria of Evaluation in Chinese Criticism of Painting.” 
Attendance, 60. 
January 30. Dr. Pope, at the Antiques Forum, Williamsburg, Va., 
“‘Chinese Export Porcelain in Perspective.” Attendance, 
395. 
February 3. Mr. Stern, at the Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, 
Calif., ‘The Korean Exhibition.” Attendance, 350. 
February 9. Mr. Stern, to the Society for Asian Arts, San Francisco, 
Calif., “Hokusai.” Attendance, 150. 
March 17. Dr. Cahill, at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 
“Two Concepts of Painting in China.” Attendance, 60. 
March 18. Dr, Cahill, at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 
“The Theory of Literati Painting.”’ Attendance, 60. 
March 19. Dr. Cahill, at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 
“Yiian Dynasty Painting.” Attendance, 12. 
April 9. Dr. Pope, to the American Oriental Society, University of 
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., ‘‘Notes on Saga of Porce- 
lain: How Old Is Koimari?’”’ Attendance, 100. 
April 10. Dr. Ettinghausen, to the American Oriental Society, Uni- 
versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., ‘Miniatures 
Related to the ‘Demotte’ Shah-nadmeh.”” Attendance, 75. 
April 16. Mr. Stern, at Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 
“Hokusai the Painter.’”’ Attendance, 110. 
April 30. Mr. Stern, to the Japan Society, New York City, “Japanese 
Art, Visual Aspects.’”? Attendance, 60. 
May 7. Dr. Pope, at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 
“Temples of Angkor.”’ Attendance, 175. 
May 23. Mr. Gettens, to the Eastern New York American Chemical 
Society, Top of the World Inn, Lake George, N.Y., 
“Adventures in Archaeological Chemistry.”” Attendance, 
50. 
Members of the staff traveled outside Washington on official busi- 
ness as follows: 
1958 
June 20- Dr. Pope, in Europe, examined objects in museums and 
August 11. private collections as follows: London: British Museum, 
Percival David Foundation, Victoria and Albert Museum, 
and six private collections; Amsterdam: Museum for 
Asiatic Art and one private collection; The Hague: One 
private collection; Brussels: Musée du Cinquantenaire 
and Stoclet Collection; Athens: Benaki Museum; Rome: 
Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente; 
Venice: Oriental Museum; Lugano: Dubose Collection 
and Vanotti Collection. 
