February 20 



Workshop: A field workshop on the "Reconstruction of Precolumbian Subsistence in 

 the Humid American Tropics" for Latin American archaeologists was held at the 

 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute from February 20 through April 2. The 

 seminar was coordinated by institute archaeologist Richard Cooke. Participants 

 came from Panama. Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and 

 Venezuela. 



February 21-24 



Conference: The Office of Protection Services hosted the twelfth Annual National 

 Conference on Museum Security. The conference identified many shared concerns 

 and problems in the area of museum security and served as a forum for 

 participants to share solutions to those problems. 



February 24 



Benefit: The preview reception for USArt, an annual San Francisco exhibition and 

 sale of eighteenth- to twentieth-century American art, benefited the West Coast 

 Regional Center of the Archives of American Art. 



March 



Grants: The Smithsonian Institution Libraries received funds awarded by the 

 Women's Committee of the Smithsonian Associates to support two projects: 

 conservation of a fifteen-volume set of nineteenth-century Indian textile samples 

 now in the collections of the Cooper-Hewitt Branch and assistance with the 

 publication of an illustrated lecture, "Alchemical Death and Resurrection: 

 Alchemy in the Age of Newton," by Professor B. J. T. Dobbs of Northwestern 

 University. 



March 



Restoration: The Smithsonian Institution Libraries Book Conservation Laboratory 

 began restoring James Smithson's personal library that consists of about one 

 hundred surviving books of the Institution's founder. 



March 



Symposium: The World of Samuel Beckett" was explored in a three-day symposium 

 cosponsored by the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, the Forum of 

 Psychiatry and the Humanities, the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Forum for 

 the Psychoanalytic Study of Film, and the Visual Press, University of Maryland. 

 Highlights of the symposium were the video premieres of "Waiting For Godot" and 

 "Krapp's Last Tape," which was recently performed in Paris with the involvement 

 and imprimatur of Beckett himself. 



