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Swedish Rock Carvings ; Canadian Abstract Paintings ; German Art 

 Books; Good Design in Switzerland, and Paintings by Tessai. The 

 last four contained acknowledgments written by Mrs. Annemarie H. 

 Pope, chief, Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service. Special 

 acknowledgment for the Bellows catalog was written by Miss Jo Ann 

 Sukel, research assistant. 



Mr. Beggs gave a talk on 18th- Century Paintings before the Alexan- 

 dria Woman's Club, and served on the juries of three local shows and 

 one in Virginia. He was elected to the Board of Trustees of the 

 Barney Neighborhood House. 



Mr. Gardner gave illustrated lectures and conducted discussion 

 groups on 18th-Century European and China-Trade Porcelains; 

 European Porcelain for Colonial Tables; and Porcelain, Mirror of 

 Fashion, at the Sulgrave and Senior Congressional Clubs in Washing- 

 ton, D. C., and at the Richmond Antiquarian Society and the Alexan- 

 dria Association in Virginia. His review of "Ceramics for the Arche- 

 ologist," by Anna O. Shephard, appeared in the May 1957 issue of 

 the Scientific Monthly. 



Between August 17, 1956, and March 29, 1957, Mrs. Pope repre- 

 sented the Traveling Exhibition Service on a visit to museums and 

 galleries in Seattle, Wash.; Honolulu, T. H.; Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, 

 Japan ; Taipei, Taichung, Taiwan ; Hong Kong ; Saigon, Viet-Nam ; 

 Phnom Penh, Siem-Reap (Angkor), Cambodia; Singapore; Djakarta, 

 Djokjakarta, Surabaya, Indonesia; Bangkok, Chiengmai, Thailand; 

 Rangoon, Burma ; Calcutta, India ; Frankfurt, Germany ; Amsterdam, 

 Holland ; and London, England. 



Mr. Lyon represented the National Collection of Fine Arts at a 

 seminar on "Resinous Surface Coatings," held at Oberlin College, 

 Oberlin, Ohio, under the auspices of the Intermuseum Conservation 

 Association. He discussed the organization of art clubs, the planning 

 of stimulating art meetings, and group art trips, for the Petworth 

 Women's Club and the Port Tobacco Art Guild of Southern Mary- 

 land. He also judged two local exhibitions and one held at the Fairfax 

 County Court House. On June 28, he left on a 2-month trip through 

 western Europe, expecting to visit British, French, Italian, and Span- 

 ish Museums. 



Fifty-five paintings in oil on canvas from the permanent collection 

 were cleaned and revarnished, and 66 picture frames were repaired and 

 refinished. Three plaster casts, one sculpture in wood, and one 

 Italian chair were repaired. 



The canvases of 9 paintings from the Smithsonian Lending Collec- 

 tion were cleaned, restored, and revarnished, and 12 frames were 

 repaired and refinished. 



