232 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM SERVICE 
The Smithsonian Museum Service was established on October 21, 
1958. G. Carroll Lindsay was appointed acting curator of the Service 
on the same date. He had served as assistant curator of enthnology 
from 1956 to 1957 and as associate curator of cultural history since 1957. 
The Museum Service, operating under the Office of the Secretary, 
acts to coordinate the extension of the museum activities of the Insti- 
tution with particular attention to the historic development of these 
activities and their relationship to the development of the entire Insti- 
tution from its founding to the present time. The activity of the Mu- 
seum Service includes the administration of Smithsonian cooperation 
with the volunteer docents of the Junior League of Washington, D.C. 
A more complete report of this activity for the 1958-59 season is 
carried in the report of the U.S. National Museum. 
The Museum Service also provided assistance to professional and 
subprofessional individuals and groups visiting the museums of the 
Institution. Arrangements were made through the Museum Service 
for Smithsonian participation in the Joint Workshop on Use of Com- 
munity Resources sponsored by the University of Maryland and 
George Washington University. Through the facilities of this work- 
shop a 5-day program outlining the history of the Institution and the 
work of the various Smithsonian museum and research bureaus was 
presented to 41 graduate students from the participating universities. 
Assistance was also rendered to other college and university groups 
visiting the Institution, and to individuals from the United States 
and abroad, visiting or planning to visit the Smithsonian in a profes- 
sional capacity. 
The Museum Service carried out the arrangements for various 
Smithsonian public functions and events, including lectures and the 
opening of the new halls and exhibits. Mailing lists for invitations 
to these functions and events of the Institution were enlarged and 
reorganized, and the Smithsonian Calendar of Events, a monthly list- 
ing of exhibit openings, lectures, and other special events of the 
Institution, was prepared and distributed. 
BIO-SCIENCES INFORMATION EXCHANGE 
The Bio-Sciences Information Exchange, an agency operated under 
the Smithsonian Institution but financed by other Government agen- 
cles, is a clearinghouse for research in the life sciences. 
Abstracts of current research are registered by investigators engaged 
in biological, medical, and psychological research and in limited as- 
pects of research in the social sciences. Through an extensive system 
of subject indexing, these abstracts are provided upon request and 
