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f. Visits to other institutions or places on official work.

A number of outside contacts have been established in person by the curator during this fiscal year.  Most of them were in connection with investigations of material being considered for the National Air Museum.  Those which were specifically for the division of Aeronautics are included in Sections, "a" and "c" of this Report.

Because the Navy's Experimental Test Center is located within 60 miles of Washington, it has been possible to make several visits there to study aircraft and material.  Mr. Fred Verville of the Navy's Technical Data Section, has been working closely with the curator in the location and selection of Trophy aircraft and components and has accompanied him on three visits to Patuxent: October 3, March 11, and April 25.  Although the purpose of these trips was primarily to inspect enemy aircraft which have been under examination and test at Patuxent, the mission was extended to include examination of some of the Navy's newest developments in airplanes, engines and components.

In connection with Navy Day, October 25, the Air Station at Anacostia assembled a special ordinance exhibit which was studied with much interest.

The period of January 19 to February 12 was spent in a trip to California primarily for the purpose of appraising a collection of aeronautical material assembled by Mrs. C. A. Tusch of Berkeley.  As a volunteer nurse during the flu epidemic World War I, when many students of the Air Cadet School at the University of California were stricken, Mrs. Tusch endeared herself to them by her care and thoughtfulness.  Many of them later made her home a favorite gathering place.