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town, N.Y., and Kinzers, Pa., to examine and collect early examples 
of various types of farm machinery. 
At the invitation of Dr. J. Stainman, a practicing optometrist, 
Associate Curator of Medical Sciences Dr. John B. Blake obtained a 
large collection of refracting instruments for the Smithsonian In- 
stitution on August 26,1957. In September Dr. Blake spent several 
days in Boston and Salem, Mass., and New York City inspecting 
and studying collections relating to all phases of medical history. 
On October 10, 1957, he acquired a 35-year-old General Electric port- 
able X-ray machine in Baltimore, Md. On December 4 and 5 he 
examined, with a view to acquiring for the Museum of History and 
Technology, old dental instruments from the School of Dentistry 
at the University of Pennsylvania. In New York City and Long 
Island he obtained two cases of anesthesia material from the Wood 
Museum and Dr. W. H. Archer of Pittsburgh, Pa. From March 
16 to 22, 1958, he visited the Cleveland Health Museum and the Dit- 
trich Museum of Natural History examining a large collection of 
medical instruments; and then proceeded to Chicago where he studied 
collections at the International College of Surgeons Hall of Fame, 
the Chicago Historical Society, and other museums. 
Robert M. Vogel, assistant curator of mechanical and civil en- 
gineering, spent considerable time throughout the year visiting the 
engineering schools in numerous universities and important engineer- 
ing plants inventorying and selecting examples of 19th- and early 
20th-century material for the planned exhibits in the new Museum 
of History and Technology. 
From October 25 to November 4, 1957, the head curator of arts 
and manufactures, Dr. P. W. Bishop, was in the vicinity of Pitts- 
burgh, Pa., Chicago, Ill., and Dearborn, Mich., endeavoring to de- 
termine the type of engine used by Drake in his 1858-59 oil drilling. 
In Chicago, Dr. Bishop received excellent cooperation from the Re- 
search Plant of Universal Oil Products in planning exhibit models 
showing various types of catalytic cracking units. In September 
he spent a day at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 
another at Lakeville, Conn. 
The curator of graphic arts, Jacob Kainen, spent September 9 to 
13 in Cleveland looking toward the acquisition of early silk-screen 
stencil printing. He also continued his research on J. B. Jackson, 
going over references and prints by this artist. 
During December 11 to 14, 1957, Miss Grace L. Rogers, acting 
curator of textiles, studied various phases of the textile collection 
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the exhibit at Amateur 
Needlework of Today, Inc., in New York City. She also conferred 
with the donor of an old Jacquard loom now being assembled. After 
