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George Griffenhagen, curator of medicine and public health, Sep- 

 tember 8-15, 1956, discussed dental history exhibits, apothecary shop 

 restorations, and pharmaceutical antiques with officials of the Charles 

 H. Land Museum and the Columbia University College of Pharmacy 

 in New York City, the owners of collections in Bridgeport and 

 Newton, Conn., the Beverly Historical Society and the Essex Institute, 

 Salem, Mass., the Albany, N. Y., College of Pharmacy, the Coopers- 

 town Farmer's Museum, the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, 

 and the Buffalo Historical Society. At Jamestown and Colonial 

 Williamsburg on October 30, 1956, he examined early English delft 

 and glass drug containers and devoted December 10-12 to a review of 

 the Ephraim McDowell Medical Museum in Danville, Ky., and to 

 conferences relative to the apothecary shop restoration planned for 

 this museum. He held conferences relating to the Hall of Health 

 with medical historians in New York City, December 26-28, 1956. 

 As executive Secretary of the Fourth Pan American Congress of 

 Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Mr. Griffenhagen undertook a 3-week 

 trip through Latin America, which required stops in Venezuela, Bra- 

 zil, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, and Cuba, which afforded 

 an opportunity to examine collections of pharmaceutical antiques in 

 Rio de Janeiro and Lima. He studied ceramic drug jars at the School 

 of Pharmacy Museum, Minneapolis, and the pediatric and medical 

 antiques at the Canadian Academy of the History of Pharmacy, To- 

 ronto, April 1-6, 1957. 



Mr. Griffenhagen displayed panels to be shown in the new Hall of 

 Health at the meeting of the American Association of Anat- 

 omists, Baltimore, April 16-19, 1957. He held consultations relative 

 to the donation of ceramic apothecary jars by the Bristol-Myers Co., 

 the possible participation by Schenley Laboratories in the restora- 

 tion of "Americana Pharmacy," and the content of the Hall of Dental 

 History with representatives of the American Academy of History 

 of Dentistry, April 30-May 2, 1957, at New York City. 



Mendel L. Peterson, acting head curator of history, studied the 

 military collections at the Chapel Museum, Fort Jay, and Castle 

 William on Governors Island, as well as the Cooper Union Museum 

 and the Marine collections of the Seaman's Bank of Savings, New 

 York City. At Boston he visited the Old State House, the Frigate 

 Constitution, the Bunker Hill site, Old North Church, and Old South 

 Church. This travel extended from April 15 to 17, 1957. 



Franklin R. Bruns, Jr., curator of philately and postal history, 

 consulted donors and potential donors to the national stamp collec- 

 tions at New York City, October 8-9, 1956, at Princeton, N. J., April 

 19, Detroit, May 1, and Chicago, May 2, 1957. 



To observe European museum practices, exhibition techniques, and 

 the content of military collections for the advancement of planning 



