Decpmber 4-6 



Symposium: The National Zoological Park conducted the Tropical Biology 

 Conference on the positive approaches to tropical forest conservation. 

 Successful or promising projects were highlighted. Several hundred professionals 

 with a special interest in this topic attended. 



Dpcpmhpr 5-9 



Special Event: Smithsonian Associates joined National Air and Space Museum staff 

 to view HaT ley's Comet during a weekend study tour created by the Smithsonian 

 Associates Travel Program. 



December 6 



Special Event: In celebration of the return of Comet Halley, the National Air 

 and Space Museum sponsored a host of free public activities, including a 

 scientific exhibition on exploring comets, a symposium, a lecture by astronomer 

 Carl Sagan and an evening "Once-In-A-Lifetime" party. 



December 6-8 



Milestone: The National Associates Travel Program celebrated its fourteenth 

 annual Christmas at the Smithsonian Weekend for Smithsonian Associates. 



December 6-13 



Workshop: The Conservation Analytical laboratory hosted a workshop on the 

 integration of archaeological data with results of an analytical study of Greater 

 Nicoya ceramic production and distribution. Five Costa Rican archaeologists 

 attended this workshop together with American colleagues. 



December 12 



Lecture: Distinguished jurist and Smithsonian Institution Regent A. Leon 

 Higginbotham Jr. surveyed the American legal process as it has affected blacks 

 between 1619 and 1985. 



December 13 



Special Event: The Smithsonian Women's Committee held its fourteenth annual 

 Christmas fundraising dinner-dance in the National Museum of Natural History, 

 with "India" as the theme and His Excellency the Ambassador of India and Mrs. 

 Bajpai as the honorary patrons. 



December 14 



Seminar: "Currents," a seminar for high-school juniors in the Washington, D.C., 

 metropolitan area, was initiated by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. 

 Students' observations about the "New Romanticism" exhibition of contemporary 

 Italian painting, the focus of the seminar, were later published. 



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