November 



U Wildlife Management A 13-day deer hunt, managed 

 by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, was 

 conducted at the Smithsonian Environmental Research 

 Center to begin to reduce the deer population to a level 

 compatible with the capacity of the Smithsonian-owned 

 lands. The growing deer population was damaging the 

 natural habitats and farm crops and contributing to a 

 local epidemic of Lyme disease. 



November 



■ Program Eliminated After 34 years of providing research 

 support through the Translations Publishing Program, the 

 Smithsonian Institution Libraries closed the program when 

 the Special Foreign Currency operating funds that supported 

 it were exhausted. Since the program's inception in i960, the 

 Libraries published, registered with the National Technical 

 Information Service, and distributed free of charge copies of 

 274 scientific books and articles translated into English from 

 foreign languages. 



November 



■ Publication The two volumes of the technical report, 

 Long-Term Assessment of the Oil Spill at Bahia Las Mtnas, Pan- 

 ama, edited by Brian D. Keller and Jeremy B. C. Jackson of 

 the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, were published. 



November 



tional Museum of the American Indian sponsored the 

 seminar "Research Methods." 



November 2 



■ Film Premiere The Grand Generation, a 30-minute doc- 

 umentary film on folklore, culture, and aging in the 

 United States, premiered at the National Museum of 

 American History's Carmichael Auditorium. The film 

 was produced by Marjorie Hunt, Paul Wagner, and Ste- 

 ven Zeitlin in cooperation with the Center for Folklife 

 Programs and Cultural Studies. 



November 5 



■ Panel Discussion The Wider Audience Development 

 Program organized a panel discussion on the leadership 

 roles that Native American women play within their 

 tribes and communities. Titled "From Beadwork to the 

 Board Room: Native American Women as Leaders," the 

 program was part of the 1993 American Indian Heritage 

 Month observance. 



November 3 



■ Lecture The Archives of American Art New York 

 Committee invited members to attend a talk on Joan 

 Miro by Carolyn Lanchner, curator of painting and 

 sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art and curatot of 

 the museum's retrospective on the artist. 



■ Professional Meeting The Office of Printing and Pho- 

 tographic Services participated in ongoing meetings 

 of subcommittees of the American National Stan- 

 dards Institute developing test methods to determine 

 archival permanence in photographic materials. 



November 4 



■ Public Program Lady Margaret Thatcher, former 

 prime minister of England, spoke to an overflow crowd 

 of Smithsonian Associates about her political career. 



November 



■ Acquisition The National Museum of African Art ac- 

 quired an important collection of Tuareg metalwork, in- 

 cluding jewelry boxes, tea glass containers, locks and 

 keys, a sword and daggers with sheaths, and a bed. The 

 works will be featured in a 1995 exhibition, "An from 

 the Forge: Tuareg Metalwork." 



November 1—10 



■ Seminar The American Indian Museum Studies pro- 

 gram of the Office of Museum Programs and the Na- 



November 4 



■ Symposium A week-long symposium in Lahore, Paki- 

 stan, culminated a three-year project to document the 

 evolution of urbanism and garden design under the 

 Mughals, who ruled most of present-day north India 

 and Pakistan for 200 years beginning in the early 16th 

 century. The project was conducted jointly by the Ar- 

 thur M. Sackler Gallery; the School of Architecture and 

 Planning, Lahore University of Engineering and Tech- 

 nology; and the Department of Archaeology of the Gov- 

 ernment of Pakistan, with funding provided by the 

 Smithsonian Foreign Currency Program. 



