122 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
1957 
November 1-19. 
November 6-9. 
November 7-12. 
November 17-20. 
November 19. 
November 20-24. 
November 25- 
December 9. 
December 11. 
December 16-17. 
ir. Gettens, in Chicago, visited the Art Institute of 
Chicago; in Denver, Colo., visited the Chappelle House, 
the Schlier Gallery, and the Denver Art Museum; in 
Boulder, Colo., examined Mayan pottery sherds belong- 
ing to Miss Anna Shepard; in Salt Lake City, Utah, 
visited the Utah Musuem of Fine Arts; in San Francisco, 
saw the collection of Neil E. Compton; also visited the 
E. B. Crocker Art Gallery in Sacramento, Calif., Sutters 
Museum, Sutters Fort, Calif.; the Portland Art Museum, 
Portland, Oreg.; the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Wash.; 
and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, 
Minn. Examined 106 objects in addition to general 
collections. 
Mr. Gettens and Dr. Cahill, as delegates, attended meetings 
of the UNESCO Conference in San Francisco. 
Dr. Cahill, in San Francisco, examined 30 Chinese and 
Japanese objects belonging to S. Tsuchiya, a dealer. In 
Kansas City, Mo., examined 50 Chinese paintings at 
the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art; in Cleve- 
land, Ohio, examined 25 Chinese and 5 Japanese paintings 
at the Cleveland Museum of Art. 
Dr. Ettinghausen, in Boston and Cambridge, Mass., ex- 
amined 20 Arabic and Persian MSS. in the Houghton 
Library, 60 Persian and Indian miniatures in the Fogg 
Art Museum, and 1 Coptic woodcarving with bone inlay 
at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 
Dr. Ettinghausen, in Boston, attended the annual meeting 
of the Trustees of “‘The American Research Center in 
Egypt” at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. 
Dr. Cahill, in New York, examined 8 Far Eastern paintings 
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; 30 Indian and Far 
Eastern paintings belonging to a private collector; and 
119 paintings in the hands of five dealers; he also attended 
an exibition of modern Chinese paintings at the Mi 
Chou Gallery. 
Dr. Pope, in London, England, attended the Exhibition, 
“Arts of the Ming Dynasty,” sponsored by the Arts 
Council of Great Britain and the Oriental Ceramic 
Society; also saw collections belonging to the follow- 
ing: Mrs. Alfred Clark, Percival David Foundation, the 
British Museum, J. M. Addis, Gerald Reitlinger, F. 
Brodie Lodge, G. Gompertz, R. F. A. Riesco, Sir Harry 
Garner, and R. H. R. Palmer. 
Dr. Ettinghausen left on a trip taking him to Lahore, 
Pakistan, to attend the International Islamic Colloquium. 
Mr. Wenley attended the meeting of the Freer Fund 
Committee at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 
Mich. 
