of Smithsonian artifacts and using the Synthonics 

 software process "Rapid Virtual Reality" for rotation 

 and examination of the object images. 



October 



Chronology 



■ Exhibition Office of Physical Plant, Architectural 

 History, and Historic Preservation conducted a research 

 project related to the Langley Memorial Plaque which 

 resulted in a small exhibition mounted in the Castle. A 

 brochure to accompany this exhibition was produced 

 and continues to be distributed. 



October 5 



October 



■ Exhibition "Down Through the Years: Stories From 

 the Anacostia Museum Collection" highlighted the 

 uniqueness and the treasures of the Anacostia Museum 

 and Center for African American History and Culture. 



■ Hewlett-Packard Donation The Hewlett-Packard 

 Company donated a state-of-the-art ultrasound imaging 

 system to the Department of Animal Health. Zoo 

 vetetinarians will use the system to help diagnose 

 disease in the Zoo's animal collection. The Sonos iooo 

 system — valued at $120,000 — had been pteviously 

 loaned by HP to the Zoo for use during the cardio- 

 vascular examination conducted by Zoo veterinarians in 

 June. Those exams revealed the existence of heart dis- 

 ease among several of the Zoo's great apes. 



October 



■ Exhibition "Footsteps from North Brentwood," an 

 exhibition at the Anacostia Museum and Center for 

 African American History and Culture, documented the 

 growth and development of the first municipality in 

 Prince George's County, Maryland, to be incorporated 

 by African American citizens. 



October 



October j-iS 



■ Workshop The Center for Museum Studies col- 

 laborated with the Fundacion Antorchas and the Univer- 

 sidad de Buenos Aires in offered a series of workshops 

 on preventive conservation and exhibition design. The 

 workshops, held at the university's Museo Etnografico 

 Juan B. Ambrosetti, provided training to museum staff 

 in Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. Another program was 

 offered in May 1997. 



■ Research An entirely new kind of solar system object — 

 an icy miniplanet — was discovered and described by a 

 team of scientists, included an SAO astronomer, who 

 determined that it and others of its ilk might pass 

 through the vast, dark "no man's land" between the 

 Kuiper Belt of frozen planetesimals beyond Pluto's orbit 

 and the Oort Cloud of comets that is believed to form a 

 halo around the entire solar system. 



October 8 



■ Benefit The Archives of American Art honored artist 

 Chuck Close at a gala black-tie dinner. An exhibition 

 featured the artist and comprising papers, photographs, 

 letters, and other documents in the Archives' collections 

 opened the same evening in the New York Regional 

 Centet Gallery Space. 



October 



October 9 



■ Licensing agreement A licensing agreement was made 

 with Synthonics Technologies, Inc., for the development 

 and production of a CD-ROM containing images in 3D 



■ Public Program "Oye Como Va: The Smithsonian 

 Honors Tito Puente," the National Museum of 

 American History's tribute to renowned Latin musician 



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