August 15-22 



Expedition: A Smithsonian Research Expedition, "The Legacy of the Horse in Crow 

 Culture," was conducted at the annual Crow Fair in Billings, Montana. Team 

 members helped document the fair through written descriptions and photographs. 

 The information gathered will be used in the National Museum of Natural History's 

 upcoming "Seeds of Change" exhibition. 



August 18 



Exhibition: The first professionally designed and produced exhibition of the 

 Smithsonian Tropica] Research Institute, "Parting the Green Curtain: The 

 Evolution of Tropical Biology in Panama," opened at the National Museum of 

 Natural History. The bilingual exhibition, in Spanish and English, then traveled 

 to Panama, where it was installed in the new Tupper Auditorium. 



August 19 



Meeting: Secretary Adams met in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with leaders of American 

 Indian communities, museum professionals, and collectors of Native American art 

 to share perspectives on the proposed National Museum of the American Indian. 



August 23 



Appointment: Dr. Forrest McGill, a specialist in the art of South and Southeast 

 Asia, was named assistant director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Dr. McGill 

 came to the Smithsonian from his post as director of the Museum of Art and 

 Archaeology at the University of Missouri in Columbia. 



August 30 



Appointment: Dr. Elizabeth Broun was selected as director of the National Museum 

 of American Art. An American art scholar, Broun served as assistant director and 

 chief curator at the museum from 1983 until August 1988, when she was appointed 

 acting director following the resignation of Dr. Charles C Eldredge. 



September 



Research: The highest resolution X-ray images of a solar flare and the solar 

 corona ever obtained were made by a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory/IBM 

 telescope aboard a National Aeronautics and Space Administration sounding rocket 

 launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. 



September 



Education: An activity book for high school students containing some two dozen 

 hands-on experiments drawn from astronomy was developed at the Harvard- 

 Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics by Project STAR in cooperation with staff 

 science advisors. 



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