June 28 



Exhibition: Fabled Cloth: Batik from Java's North Coast opened at the Cooper- 

 Hewitt Museum. 



June 28 



Exhibition: A living microcosm of a Maine coastal ecosystem, housed in a 3,000- 

 gallon aquarium simulating natural conditions, went on display at the Museum of 

 Natural History. 



June 28 



Telecast: "The Work of Peace," a half -hour film produced by the Office of 

 Telecommunications on the Treaty of Paris of 1783, had its national premiere on 

 the PBS network. The film won the Silver Medal of the International Film and TV 

 Festival of N.Y., the Silver Award at the Houston International Film Festival, a 

 CINE Golden Eagle and second place in the 1985 National Educational Film 

 Festival . 



June 30 -July 1 



Update: Giant pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing mated four times. Subsequent 

 urine samples indicated a possible pregnancy. 



June/July 



Publication: A major five-part series on the Smithsonian Institution appeared in 

 the French magazine Paris Match. 



July 



Gift: Amber collector Jacob Brodzinsky donated to the Museum of Natural History 

 his collection of rare pieces of amber some 24 million years old. 



July 



Milestone: 18,616 public inquiries, a record monthly high, were received by the 

 Telephone Information Program of the Visitor Information and Associates' 

 Reception Center. 



July 



Publication: As part of the Festival of India, a 13 -part series on "India Today" 

 was distributed by the Smithsonian News Service, a monthly feature -story service 

 of the Office of Public Affairs. The series, based on information gathered by 

 two Public Affairs writers who traveled in India for six weeks, gave a first-hand 

 acount of the colorful and complex past, present and future of India. 



July 



Publication: Communication and Non-communication by Cephalopods by Martin 

 Moynihan, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, was published by Indiana 

 University Press as part of its series on animal communication. 



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