January 



Acquisition: A premier collection of butterflies from North and South America, 

 numbering 100,000 specimens, was acquired by the Museum of Natural History. 

 Included are many species previously not represented in the Smithsonian 

 collection and species previously unknown to scientists. 



January • 



Gift: Gamez and Bolanos, two uninhabited and virtually undisturbed islands off 

 the Pacific coast of Panama, were donated by Mrs. Jean Niemier to the Smithsonian 

 Tropical Research Institute through the Nature Conservancy's International 

 Program in honor of her late husband, Edward A. "Ed" Niemeir. 



January 



Grants Review: The Office of Fellowships and Grants convened advisory councils 

 to approve Smithsonian Foreign Currency Program grants. 



January 



New Program: The Educational Fellowship was established by the Office of 

 Fellowships and Grants to support minority students while they pursue graduate 

 study in a relevant Smithsonian field. 



January 



Report: "Role of Family in the Promotion of Science Literacy," final report for 

 a National Science Foundation grant, was completed by Smithsonian Office of 

 Education Research. 



January 11 



Acquisitions: The Museum of American Art announced the gift of 311 paintings, 

 sculptures, drawings and collages from Container Corporation of America, 

 including works by Leonard Baskin, Joseph Cornell, Willem de Kooning, Jacob 

 Lawrence, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist and Ben Shahn. 



January 11 



Exhibition: Spanning Niagara: The International Bridges, 184-8-1962 , an 

 exhibition of approximately 75 prints, drawings and photographs at the Museum of 

 American History, showed the technical and aesthetic challenges met by the 13 

 bridges built over the Niagara River to link the United States and Canada. 



January 13-15 



Workshop: The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Rockville , Md. , 

 sponsored a workshop in which 15 experts discussed landscape ecology. Future 

 meetings are planned in January 1986 and January 1987 to continue the task of 

 developing a better theoretical basis for this field of ecology. 



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