September 



Film: The Earth in Our Hands," a one-hour film narrated by Robert Redford for 

 national broadcast, was completed and premiered at the Second International 

 Conference on Ecological Closed Systems in Krasnoyarsk, USSR. 



September 



System: The Office of Planning and Budget, in concert with other offices, 

 completed a requirements statement, design, and initial development of the new 

 personnel cost projection system. Software development was completed and an 

 employee training manual was released. Two orientation sessions were held for 

 bureau and office staff throughout the Institution. 



September 



Opening: The Office of Horticulture participated in the opening of the Louis 

 Comfort Tiffany exhibition at the Renwick Gallery. Plant arrangements were 

 planned to reflect those shown in Tiffany's glass creations and to establish the 

 feeling of his home and the period of his work. 



September 



Acquisition: The Office of Horticulture purchased the important J. W. Fiske 

 fountain, known as Centennial Fountain, with figures of children under an 

 umbrella. 



September 1 



Birth: Giant Panda Ling-Ling gave birth to an undersized cub at the National 

 Zoo. The cub was retrieved from its mother, who was being treated for a 

 urinary/genital tract infection. Zoo veterinarians administered antibiotics and 

 immune globulins to the cub to help it fight infection. Unfortunately, the cub 

 died forty hours after birth. 



September 3-17 



Workshop: The Smithsonian Institution/Man and the Biosphere Program conducted 

 its first training workshop in Ecuador. The lead coordinator in Ecuador was the 

 Charles Darwin Foundation. 



September 7 



Acquisition: The National Museum of American Art acquired Louis Comfort 

 Tiffany's "Market Day Outside the Walls of Tangier," a gift from the American Art 

 Forum. One of the artist's most ambitious combinations of exotic ancedote, 

 ethnographic detail, and sensuous color, this painting helped establish Tiffany's 

 reputation in 1873 as a skilled observer of the Near East. 



37 



