November 13 



Special Event: Avant-garde performer Meredith Monk appeared at the Hirshhorn 

 Museum and Sculpture Garden in a program co-sponsored by the Resident Associate 

 Program and the Hirshhorn as part of the Hirshhorn' s tenth anniversary 

 celebration. 



November 14 



Exhibition: Miguel Covarrubias Caricatures , the first retrospective of this 

 artist's caricatures, opened at the National Portrait Gallery. 



November 14 



Exhibition: The Metropolitan Opera Centennial: A Photographic Album opened at 

 the National Portrait Gallery. 



November 26 



Milestone: The SIL acquisitions unit began processing orders of books and 

 journals electronically on its SIL Automated Library System through the 

 Smithsonian Institution Bibliographic Information System (SIBIS) . 



November 28 



Telecast: "The Sea: A Quest for Our Future," a one-hour documentary produced by 

 the Office of Telecommunications, had its premiere on the Public Broadcasting 

 System network and subsequently received the 1984 Best Nature Production Award 

 from the International TV Movie Festival (March 1985) and a second-place award 

 from the 1985 National Educational Film Festival. 



November 29 



New Facility: The archives of American Art officially opened its sixth center, 

 the Southern California Research Center, in San Marino, Calif. 



November 29 



Publication: The first volume of a series of annual reports, National Air and 

 Space Museum Research Report 198U , was published, covering the historical and 

 scientific research programs of the National Air and Space Museum. 



December 



Discovery: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory scientists discovered a new 

 gravitational lens in Constellation Pegasus, a lens which is apparently serving 

 as a "cosmic magnifying glass" to enhance the image of a much more distant 

 quasar. 



December 



Discovery: Botanists of the Museum of Natural History reported the 

 identification of the deepest growing plant found on Earth, an alga they 

 discovered off an uncharted, underwater island in the Bahamas. 



