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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1957 



1956 

 November 9-10. 



November 23-26. 



November 30. 



December 3-7. 

 December 28-29. 



1957 

 January 10-13. 



January 24. 



February 1. 



February 2. 



March 8-9. 



March 11. 

 March 12. 

 March 11-13. 



April 2-5. 



April 2-6. 



April 11-12. 



Mr. Stern, in New York, examined objects at the Willard 

 Gallery and the Oriental Art Gallery. 



Mr. Gettens, in New York, examined objects at dealers and 

 in one private collection. Conferred with the Director of 

 the Metropolitan Museum of Art about a Rembrandt 

 painting. 



Mr. Gettens and Miss Elisabeth West, in Baltimore, examined 

 paintings in the Walters Art Gallery and obtained paint 

 samples from Flemish and Florentine paintings. 



Dr. Ettinghausen, in New York, examined objects belonging 

 to dealers. 



Mr. Gettens, in Philadelphia, attended the annual meeting 

 of the Archaeological Institute of America ; examined ob- 

 jects in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the 

 University of Pennsylvania Museum, and also observed 

 the restoration work in progress in Independence Hall. 



Mr. Stern, in New York, examined objects at dealers and in 

 the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 



Dr. Ettinghausen, in New York, examined objects at dealers 

 and in one private collection. 



Dr. Ettinghausen, in Baltimore, examined objects at the 

 Baltimore Museum of Art. 



Dr. Ettinghausen, in Baltimore, examined objects at the 

 Walters Art Gallery. 



Dr. Ettinghausen, in Chicago, attended a conference on the 

 composition of a manual for the teaching of Islamic 

 civilization sponsored by the University of Chicago and 

 the Rockefeller Foundation. Examined photographs at 

 the Oriental Institute. 



Dr. Ettinghausen, in Minneapolis, examined objects at the 

 Minneapolis Institute of Art. 



Dr. Ettinghausen, in Chicago, examined objects at the Art 

 Institute of Chicago. 



Mr. Gettens, in Chicago, attended a Conference on Archaeo- 

 logical Identification and the Cooperation of Specialists in 

 Related Disciplines at the Oriental Institute, University 

 of Chicago, under the auspices of the National Research 

 Foundation. He read a paper entitled "Problems in 

 Archaeological Identifications : the Identification of Mate- 

 rials of Cultural Remains." Attendance, 40. 



Mr. Gettens, in Oberlin, Ohio, attended a seminar on "Resin- 

 ous Surface Coatings" at Oberlin College under the aus- 

 pices of the Intermuseum Conservation Association. He 

 read a paper entitled "Summary of the History of Resinous 

 Surface Coatings." Attendance, 50. 



Mr. Wenley, in Boston, attended the sessions of the Ninth 

 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies 

 (formerly the Far Eastern Association, Inc.), the Far East- 

 ern Ceramic Group, and the Far Eastern Ceramic Group 

 Council. 



Mr. Wenley, in Ann Arbor, attended a meeting of the Freer 

 Fund Committee at the University of Michigan. 



