February 15 



Exhibition: The National Portrait Gallery opened the exhibition Joseph Wright: 

 American Artist, 1756-1793 , accompanied by a full biographical study and the 

 first catalogue raisonne of his work. 



February 15 



Panel Discussion: In conjunction with the opening of the Museum of American Art 

 exhibition LIFE: The Second Decade, 194-6-1955 , six LIFE photographers 

 reminisced about their magazine careers in a program co-sponsored by <the 

 Smithsonian Resident Associates. 



February 17 -March 18 



Special Program: The Office of Museum Programs and USIA co- sponsored a new 

 program, "Collections: Management, Preventive Care and Conservation," enabling 

 13 international museum professionals to study various aspects of collections 

 management at the Smithsonian and at host museums in six U.S. cities. 



February 18-19 



Workshop: The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Facility at Edgewater, 

 Md. , and the National Science Foundation convened a group of 50 international 

 experts on the metabolic processes operating below the soil surface in tidal salt 

 marshes . 



February 20 



Exhibition: Jim Dine: Five Themes, a traveling exhibition organized by the 

 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, opened at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture 

 Garden. 



February 25 -April 4 



Field Course: The Smithsonian Tropical Research' Institute and the University of 

 Panama offered the first Graduate Field Course in Marine Ecology. Attendance by 

 a visiting instructor, Dr. Peter W. Glynn, from the University of Miami's 

 Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, and students from Mexico, 

 Venezuela, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Colombia, was made possible by a grant to STRI 

 from the Tinker Foundation. 



February 27 



Lecture Series: A five-part "Exploring Space" lecture series, in which well- 

 known space scientists participated, began at the Air and Space Museum. The 

 series continued through June. 



March 



Acquisition: The Museum of American History and the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth, 

 Mass., jointly acquired a rare silver wine cup that belonged to William Bradford, 

 governor of the Plymouth Colony. On June 14, the cup went on display for 

 approximately two years at the Museum of American History. 



