was acquired by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the fall meeting of the 

 board of trustees through the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund. 



November 2 



Restoration: Analysis, photographic documentation, and treatment began in a two-year 

 project to restore the Freer Gallery of Art masterpiece, "Harmony in Blue and Gold: The 

 Peacock Room" by American expatriate artist James McNeill Whistler, to its former 

 splendor. The Peacock Room, designed for the London townhouse of Whistler's patron 

 Frederick Leyland and later installed at the Freer Gallery, has been a favorite of visitors 

 since the museum opened to the public in 1923. 



November 2-3 



Symposium: Twenty-two authorities examined the long-controversial question of New 

 World human population and diseases before and after contact with the Europeans at the 

 symposium "Disease and Demography in the Americas: Changing Patterns Before and 

 After 1492." The event was part of the National Museum of Natural History's programs 

 honoring the 500th anniversary of Columbus' landing in the New World. 



November 3 



Exhibition: A Grumman G-21 "Goose" amphibian was placed on display in the Hall of 

 Air Transportation of the National Air and Space Museum. The aircraft on exhibit was 

 retired in 1977 after many years of service in California, Florida, and tiie Bahamas. 



November 13 



Lecture: The Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL) presented a lecture by Jack R. 

 Censer of George Mason University on "Jean Paul Marat" in conjunction with the SIL 

 exhibition, "Science and the French Revolutionaries," curated by Censer. The lecture 

 was cosponsored by the Women's National Book Association (Washington Chapter) and 

 the District of Columbia Library Association. 



November 14 



Exhibition: "To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss" opened at the National 

 Portrait Gallery. A diverse and enthusiastic group of guests— including the artist's son 

 and family, lenders and donors, representatives of the Blackfeet Tribe and other Native 

 Americans, African Americans, and Asians— attended the opening reception. 



November 15 



New Facility: The Smithsonian Information Center opened to the public in the Great 

 Hall of the Castle. The state-of-the-art center is a multifaceted information and 



