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DOCENT SERVICE, LECTURES, MEETINGS 



By request, 4 groups met in the study rooms and 4 groups in the 

 exhibition galleries for instruction by staff members; total, 191 

 persons. 



Illustrated lectures given by staff members were as follows : 



October 29, 1944 National Gallery of Art. "Chinese Porcelains," 



by Mr. Pope. 



November 10-18, 1944 Cleveland Museum of Art. "The Character of 



Islamic Art" ; "The Islamic Exhibition (cur- 

 rent)"; "Life and Literature in Persian 

 Miniature Painting" ; "Persian Figural Tex- 

 tiles of the 16th and 17th centuries" ; by Dr. 

 Ettinghausen. 



January 21, 1945 Freer Gallery auditorium. The Thornton So- 

 ciety of Washington. "James McNeill 

 Whistler and the Peacock Room," by Miss 

 Guest. 



February 27, 1945 Museum group of the Special Libraries Asso- 

 ciation meeting in the Y. W. C. A. hall, 614 E 

 Street. "Persian Painting," by Dr. Etting- 

 hausen. 



March 24, 1945 Chinese Art Society of America, New York. 



"Chinese Ceramics," by Mr. Pope. 



April 18, 1945 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. "Per- 

 sian Art : A Survey," by Dr. Ettinghausen. 



April 19, 1945 Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "Persian Minia- 

 tures," by Dr. Ettinghausen. 



May 23, 1945 Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Col- 

 lection of Harvard University, Washington, 

 D. C. "The Metamorphasis of the Persian 

 Miniature," by Dr. Ettinghausen. 



June 21, 1945 The Arts Club of Washington. "Early Chinese 



Bronzes and Jades," by Miss Guest. 



The Extension Service of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture held a meeting in the auditorium on January 5, 1945. 



Several official visits away from the city were made by staff members 

 upon request as follows : 



Mr. Wenley to examine collections of Chinese art objects at the 

 College of William and Mary, and at the Art Institute of Chicago. 



Dr. Ettinghausen to assist at the installation of a Near East exhibi- 

 tion at the Baltimore Museum of Art. 



Other official visits made by staff members were to examine objects 

 offered for sale in New York, to attend special exhibitions there, or to 

 engage in some project of research. 



PERSONNEL 



Richard Ettinghausen appointed associate in Near Eastern art 

 September 1, 1944. 



