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as Fellows through an annual 
competition • 
The Academy is adminis- 
tered by a director and staff 
in Rome and a president and 
board of trustees in New York. 
the addition of Dr. William C. 
Sturtevant to its staff. 
• 
Dr. Sturtevant 1 b replacing 
Dr. Philip Drucker, who resigned 
last November, and will take over 
the duties of his office on July 
2. 
Congratulations to the Bureau 
and heist wishes to Dr. Sturtevant. 
(Jessie Shaw says the important 
question now is: Can he bowl?) 
ARTHUR LECTURE 
Dr. Donald M* Menzel, 
director of the Harvard Col- 
lege Observatory, will be the 
speaker at the 23d Annual James 
Arthur Lecture on the Sun. The 
lecture, ’’The Edge of the Sun,” 
will be given in the auditorium 
of the Natural History Building 
at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 
26 . 
Dr. Menzel has been deeply 
engaged in solar research for 
many years. He has observed 
seven total solar eclipses and 
has founded two solar observa- 
tories — one in Climax, Colo., 
and the other at Sacramento 
Peak, N. Mex. 
In his talk Dr. Menzel 
will describe the studies lead- 
ing to an understanding of so- 
lar activity and its effects 
on the earth. Motion pictures 
of solar explosions, including 
those of the recent outburst in 
February 1956, will graphically 
portray what happens when large 
spots appear on the face of the 
sun. 
Smithsonian employees are 
invited to attend the lecture. 
ALEXANDRIA HISTORY IN ART 
The Alexandria Association, 
of Alexandria, Va., is sponsoring 
an exhibit that will tell, in 
works of art, the history of the 
Old Port. 
"Our Town, 17^9-1865," is 
the title of the exhibit, which 
will be shown at historic Gadsby's 
Tavern in Alexandria from April 12 
through May 12. 
Thomas Beggs, director of the 
National Collection of Fine Arts, 
and Malcolm Watkins, associate 
curator of ethnology, are on the 
Association's advisory committee 
for the exhibit. 
More than 200 portraits, mini- 
atures, silhouettes, drawings, en- 
gravings, and pieces of sculpture 
have been loaned for this visual 
record of more than a century. Every 
exhibit will be described in a cata- 
log, where much information will be 
given about the subject and his place 
of residence, business, and activities 
in the community. 
Almost all the historic Alexan- 
dria residents of the period will be 
represented. Among these residents 
were George Washington, Lord Fairfax, - 
NEW ETHNOLOGIST 
George Mason, and THE Lees. 
This exhibit marks the begin- 
ning of a "Documentary of Art" in 
Alexandria from the early days of 
The Bureau of American 
Ethnology is happy to announce 
the Republic. 
