from the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology 

 (BAE) publications on its Home Page (www.sil.si.edu). 

 This contribution to SIL's Digital Library is the List of 

 Publications of the Bureau of American 'Ethnology. Bulletin 

 200 (End of Series) (print edition 1971, digital edition 

 1997), and includes an index of authors and titles with 

 selected place-names, subjects, and see references for the 

 entire 94 years of published BAE annual reports, bulletins, 

 and othet contributions to North American ethnology. 



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which includes a multipurpose classroom, library, 

 exhibit hall, and office, will host more than 10,000 

 students and teachers participating in environmental 

 education each year. 



April 



■ Exhibition Office of Smithsonian Institution Archives 

 opened the exhibition "Pages from the Past," a brief 

 visual overview of the Archives' collection strengths and 

 highlights. 



■ Meeting The Provost opened the Smithsonian Acces- 

 sibility Program's Joint Advisory Council Meeting on 

 the Institutional five-year Plan on Accessibility. The 

 formation of an Accessibility Oversight Council was 

 announced whose charge would be to develop recom- 

 mendations for the Provost, Under Secretary, and 

 Secretary regarding Institutional priorities for efficiently 

 implementing the units' five-year accessibility improve- 

 ment plans. The Joint Advisory Council created a list of 

 accessibility issues for submission to the Oversight 

 Council. 



April— August 



■ Exhibition "Invitation to Contemporary Art" was on 

 view in the New York Regional Center, Archives of 

 American Art. The exhibit consisted of sixty-five fanci- 

 ful announcements from the Archives' collection of the 

 papers of art historian Ellen Hulda Johnson (1910—1992). 

 The display, curated by Archives Southeast Regional Col- 

 lector Liza Kirwin, provided a personal and, at times, 

 amusing look at the creative means of art promotion. 



April 



■ Research The belief that giant, Jupiter-like planets 

 might be common to stars like our Sun throughout the 

 Galaxy was bolstered by the discovery of such an object 

 orbiting the star Rho Coronae Borealis by a team of 

 SAO astronomers and colleagues from two other institu- 

 tions using a special spectrograph on the 1.5-meter tele- 

 scope at Smithsonian's Whipple Observatory in Arizona. 



April 



■ Acquisition The Smithsonian Institution Libraries 

 purchased the Charlotte and Lloyd Wineland collection 

 of Native American and Western exploration literature, 

 a collection of 48 titles (88 volumes) of rare books of sin- 

 gular importance to the study of the American West 

 and Indians of North America, which complements the 

 Libraries' strong Native American collection. The collec- 

 tion includes the first edition of Prince Maximilian's 

 beautifully illustrated Reise in das Innere Nord- America in 

 denjahren 1832 bis 1834 (published 1839-41), a work 

 fundamental to the study of early exploration in U.S. 

 western territories. The purchase was made possible 

 through the efforts of the Office of the Secretary, the 

 Office of the Provost, the Smithsonian Institution 

 Libraries, and the National Museum of Natural History 

 and its Anthropology Department. 



April 



■ On-line Exhibition In partnership with ASTC, SITES 

 launched the on-line exhibtion "Rotten Truth (About 

 Garbage)." The exhibition provides information to 

 educators, students and home user regarding the com- 

 plex environmental issues surrounding daily trash dis- 

 posal. Links to related web sites give users easy access to 

 wide ranging information and opinions on the topic. As 

 visitors review the exhibition, they will find suggestions 

 for activities they can do at home or in the classroom. 

 "Rotten Truth (About Garbage)" was made possible in 

 part by support from Rodale Press Inc., Artrain. 



April 



■ Building Opening At the Smithsonian Environmental 

 Research Center, the new Philip D. Reed Education 

 Center opened for use by visiting school groups from 

 Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. The center, 



April 



■ Agreement An agreement was made with Filmmakers 

 Collaborative, Inc. for the coproduction of a four-hour 

 TV series and eight-hour radio series called "River of 

 Song: A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi River." 



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