October 



Research: National Museum of Natural History entomologist Ronald J. McGinley and 

 colleagues from the U.S, Mexico and Panama initiated a program to promote the 

 study of Mexican bees by encouraging cooperation between researchers in Mexico 

 and other countries and by aiding in establishing a communication network among 

 interested bee workers and pollination ecologists. 



October 



Expedition: An interdisciplinary team of National Museum of Natural History 

 scientists, consisting of arachnologist Jon Coddington, entomologists Jerry 

 louton and Wayne Mathis, botanist Vicki Funk, ichthyologist Richard Vari, and 

 herpetolcgist George Zug, conducted a bictic survey of a proposed Anapurna 

 Conservation area in Nepal's mountainous Anapurna region for World Wildlife Fund 

 and Nepalese officials interested in formation of multiuse national parks. 



October 3 



Exhibition: "A New Romanticism: Sixteen Artists from Italy" opened at the 

 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden with 46 works by some of Italy's more 

 provocative contemporary artists, a number of whom were present for the opening. 



October 3 



Outreach: A grant-funded program run by the Office of Elementary and Secondary 

 Education, "Exploring the Smithsonian," brought to the Institution the first of 

 several junior high school classes for special interdisciplinary programs. Over 

 the course of the school year, about 4,500 D.C. junior high school students 

 participated in the program. 



October 3 



Publication: Smithsonian Institution Libraries presented the first copy of 

 Manuscripts of the Dibner Collection , SIL Research Guide #5, published by 

 Smithsonian Institution Libraries, to Dr. Bern Dibner, the collector of the 

 manuscripts, at a reception in the Dibner Library. 



October 3 



Gift: Smithsonian Institution Libraries received 194 consecutive editions of the 

 Old Farmer's Almanac , beginning with issues frcm 1792, from Yankee Publishing Co. 



October 4 



Enid A. Eaupt Garden: The first trees were installed in the preparation of the 

 garden, scheduled to open in the spring of 1987. 



October 4 



New Award: The newly created National Air and Space Museum Trophy was awarded to 

 former NASA official Robert Gilruth and to space shuttle astronauts Kathy 



