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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1957 



Dr. Pope : While going through the Freer exhibition galleries, made a 



tape recording in French in reply to questions by Mme. 

 Fevrier for Voice of America broadcasts. 

 Dr. Ettinghausen : Organized an exhibition of Islamic art at the Ohio State 

 Historical Museum, Columbus, Ohio, for the Summer Pro- 

 gram on the Middle East at Ohio State University. 

 Discussed the Freer Gallery of Art and its collections in 

 Persian with Mahmoud Danishvar of Tehran. This was 

 tape recorded for use on Voice of America broadcasts. 

 Translated into Persian his "Foreword, An Exhibition of 

 Illustrations to Fifty Quatrains by Omar Khayyam by the 

 Contemporary Iranian Painter, Hossein Behzad" to be 

 used on Voice of America broadcasts in Iran by Morteza 

 K. Yahyavi. 

 Made a tape recording in German for Voice of America 

 broadcasts in Vienna, Austria, on "The Freer Gallery of 

 Art and Its Collections." The interviewer was Oliver 

 Bryk. 

 Mr. Gettens : Chairman, Art Committee, Cosmos Club. 



Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Restoration of Catlin Paint- 

 ings, Smithsonian Institution. 

 President, Washington Society, Archaeological Institute of 

 America. 

 Mrs. Usilton : Member, Council of the District of Columbia, Library Asso- 



ciation, as Publicity Chairman. 

 Advisor and critic of the schedules for 700's (Fine Arts) of 

 the Dewey Decimal Classification, 16th edition. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Dr. Leonard Carmichael, 

 Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



A. G. Wenley, Director. 



