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...department's work, however, deals with the less spectacular, if more exacting, work of restoring masterpieces as nearly as possible to their original condition. Where the original work of the artist has been painted over, these reworkings are detected by X-ray, ultraviolet, and infra-red rays in Alan Burrough's Department of X-Ray and are removed and the blank spaces carefully filled in to resemble the original. Actual paint, however, is never retouched or covered with new work. Perhaps the most ticklish job of this type was done in 1923, although not by the Fogg technical department...
...controlling his Angora by a leash, a common practice in Manhattan, had the Society's approval. His domesticated Angora's chasing the squirrel was a pat example of the Society's strongest argument-that cats are killers. It suggested better than words the late John Burrough's contention that each cat in the U. S. kills on the average 50 birds a year. And it made unnecessary a photograph the society sought to take last week of a house cat stalking a stuffed bird rubbed with stale fish...
...HEART OF JOHN BURROUGH'S JOURNALS...
...Avery, A. Clark, P. G. Cornish, and W. J. Schieffelin, Jr.; Picture Committee, F. R. Lowell. W. S. Harpham, and W. H. Campbell; Supper Committee, H. A. Marting, O. P. Kilborn, R. S. Cooney, A. Clark, H. Harbison; Ivy Committee, S. H. Paradise, F. Bergen, and K. B. Burrough...