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the displays in the Museum of History and Technology, Edgar M. 

 Howell, acting curator of military history, departed from Wash- 

 ington on May 3, 1957. In the course of this travel he took extensive 

 notes and photographs of military collections at Madrid, Spain ; Paris, 

 France; Vienna, Austria; Brussels, Belgium; Amsterdam, The 

 Netherlands; Oslo, Norway; Stockholm, Sweden; Copenhagen, Den- 

 mark ; London, England ; and Edinburgh, Scotland. This detail was 

 completed June 6, 1957. 



Dr. V. Clain-Stefanelli, curator of numismatics, November 22-25, 

 1957, discussed types of display cases, cabinets for study collections 

 of coins, medals, and paper currency, and display methods for numis- 

 matics in New York City with officials of the American Numismatic 

 Society, the Money Museum of Chase National Bank, and the Metro- 

 politan Museum of Art. On April 12, 1957, he conferred with Julius 

 Lauth of the Medallic Art Co. relative to a medal exhibit illustrating 

 the manufacturing processes, artists' drawings and models, and en- 

 gravers' tools, and with Ernest Moore of the Gorham Co. regarding 

 production of coins and medals. Potential donations and transfers 

 were discussed with several numismatists. At Clinton, Conn., 

 William Hasse, Comptroller of the New Haven Bank, presented a 

 number of early New Haven checks and promised help in obtaining 

 notes, plate proofs, and copper currency plates for the national col- 

 lections. Sources of information regarding Confederate note issues 

 were suggested by Philip Chase of Wynnewood, Pa., May 11, 1957. 

 Mr. Chase decided to present a set of Confederate chemiograph plates. 



William L. Brown, chief zoological exhibits specialist, and Norman 

 H. Deaton examined the skeletons of elephants in the collections of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, and living animals at the 

 New York Zoological Park to obtain required measurements and data 

 for the preparation of an unusually large specimen from Angola for 

 exhibition. 



EXHIBITIONS 



A congressional allotment of $601,000 permitted continuation in 

 1957 of the program for modernization of selected exhibition halls. 

 Construction work was completed during August 1956 on the Power 

 Hall, during January 1957 on the American Indian Hall, and during 

 June 1957 on the Health Hall. Construction bids were received for 

 the Gems and Minerals Hall in January 1957, the World of Mammals 

 in May 1957, and the Textile Hall in June 1957. Actual construction 

 was commenced in these halls approximately one month after the bids 

 were approved by the Public Buildings Service. 



More than 800 guests were present on the night of January 26, 1957, 

 when Dr. Leonard Carmichael, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood opened the Hall of Everyday 



