opened to an enthusiastic public. Visitor interest in the 

 exhibition — which included many recently excavated 

 artifacts, some tentatively dated by archaeologists to 

 200,000 B.C. — was reflected in the gallery's highest 

 monthly visitor count since 1989. 



August ip 



■ Exhibit The National Zoo opened the new Cheetah 

 Conservation Station, a multipurpose exhibit that will 

 encourage the breeding and study of this rare species 

 and permit the public to see cheetahs chasing a high- 

 speed plastic lure. 



August 20 



■ New Resource The Office of Printing and 

 Photographic Services opened the first on-line library of 

 Smithsonian digital photographs on the computer net- 

 work Internet. 



August 26 



■ Special Event Washington, D.C., Mayor Sharon Pratt 

 Kelly was the guest of honor at the opening reception 

 for the Fifth National Convention of the Asian Amer- 

 ican Journalists Association, held at the Arthur M. Sack- 

 ler Gallery and cosponsored with the Gannett Co., Inc. 



August 26-27 



■ Symposium The Conservation Analytical Laboratory 

 cosponsored "Polymers in Museums," a symposium at 

 the 204th American Chemical Society national meeting 

 in Washington, D.C. Organic Chemist Mary T Baker 

 organized the session, and Baker and CAL Director Lam- 

 bertus van Zelst were session chairs. Other CAL staff 

 were presenters and coauthors of papers. 



September 



■ Exhibitions During fiscal year 1992, the Smithsonian 

 Institution Traveling Exhibition Service circulated 243 

 exhibitions in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, 

 Puerto Rico, and Canada. 



September 



■ Recording Release Roots of Rhythm and Blues: A Tribute 

 to Robert Johnson was released. Produced by Smith- 

 sonian/Folkways Recordings of the Center for Folklife 



Programs and Cultural Studies and Columbia Records 

 from the 1991 Festival of American Folklife program, 

 was released. 



September 



■ Publication Smithsonian Institution Press released 

 Frontiers of Flight, which highlights famous airplanes in 

 the National Air and Space Museum collection and is a 

 companion volume to the series of the same name, 

 which aired for 13 weeks on the Discovery Channel 

 beginning September 27. 



September 



■ Publication Seeds of Change, edited by Herman Viola 

 and Carolyn Margolis and originally published by 

 Smithsonian Institution Press, was published in Spanish 

 by Educar Recreativa in Bogota, Colombia. 



September 



■ Publication The classic Smithsonian Institution Press 

 title, The First Book of Grasses, by Agnes Chase, was 

 published in Portuguese by the Instituto de Botanica in 

 Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



September 



■ Milestone Participation in the Smithsonian National 

 Associate Program's domestic study tours increased 8 

 percent over fiscal year 1991. Foreign study tour enroll- 

 ment increased 14 percent, and Smithsonian Odyssey 

 tour participation increased 40 percent. 



September 



■ Milestone The Smithsonian National Associate 

 Program's Research Expedition division had a record- 

 breaking year with 20 teams of Associates participating 

 in scientific projects. A total of $202,000 was con- 

 tributed to the Smithsonian, along with more than 

 13,000 hours of volunteer labor. 



September 



■ Exhibition The Smithsonian Tropical Research In- 

 stitute opened an exhibition, "Wildflowers of Soberania 

 National Park," with photos by Nicholas Smythe that il- 

 lustrate the diversity of flowering plants in one of the 

 field sites used by STRI researchers. 



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