June 20 



Ea dub iticns: Twin exhibitions, "Patent Pending: Models of Invention" and 

 "Invention and Enterprise," opened at the National Museum of American History. 

 The exhibitions commemorated the 150th anniversary of the 1336 Patent Act, and 

 helped to launch the joint Smithsonian Institution-United States Patent Model 

 Foundation campaign to raise $20 million for acquiring some 100,000 patent models 

 scattered across the country. 



June 20 



Research: The Smithsonian Conservation Analytical Laboratory, the Getty 

 Conservation Institute and the Canadian Conservation Institute agreed to a joint 

 research project, with financial support from the Getty Conservation Institute, 

 into the effects of various fumigants on the stability of materials in museum 

 objects. 



June 23 



Seminars: The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education began its 1986 series 

 of summer seminars for teachers; this year the program included ten seminars for 

 local teachers frcrn the Washington, D.C. area and two graduate courses for 

 teachers from other parts of the United States. 



June 23-27 



Performance: The Franz Liszt Centennial Celebration, featuring international 

 virtuosi in recital, was cospcnsored by the Resident Associate Program, the John 

 F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Library of Congress. 



June 25-29; July 2-6 



Folklife Festival: The 20th annual Festival of American Folklife featured rice 

 in Japanese folk culture, Tennessee folklife, the conservation of traditional 

 crafts in ethnic, indigenous and regional communities in the United States, and 

 the occupational folklife of American trial lawyers. A music stage to celebrate 

 the Festival's 20th anniversary and dance parties were also included. A related 

 ethnographic film series began on June 25 organized by the Office of Folklife 

 Programs, the Human Studies Film Archives and the Museum of Natural History's 

 Office of Education. 



June 27 



Exhibition: "The Earliest Traces of Life," a permanent exhibition in the 

 National Museum of Natural History fossil hall, highlighted a 3.5 billion-year- 

 cld stromatolite, a fossilized mass of blue-green algae and bacteria, the oldest 

 direct evidence of life on earth. 



July 



Brochure: The first brochure en the facilities, research and resources of the 

 Department of Ectany, Museum of Natural History, was written and produced by the 

 Office of Public Affairs and designed by the Smithsonian Institution Press. 



