July 



Grant: The National Museum of American History received a generous grant from 

 the Norfolk Southern Foundation to help produce a new major permanent exhibition, 

 "Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860." 



July 



Milestone: Smithsonian Institution Libraries launched a bar-coding project for 

 circulation and inventory control, subsequently producing over 300,000 bar-code 

 labels from a bibliographic database. 



July 



Acquisition: The Olle Pellmyr Collection of Fennoscandian Lepidcptera arrived at 

 the National Museum of Natural History. This collection of nearly 7,000 specimens 

 was accumulated during pollination studies and will be used for comparison and 

 research purposes. 



July 



Film Production: "The Movie Palaces," a half-hour film funded by the National 

 Endowment for the Arts and produced by the Office of Telecommunications, was 

 completed. 



July 1 



Anniversary: The National Air and Space Museum marked its 10th anniversary, a 

 decade highlighted by record-breaking attendance, an expanded commitment to 

 historical and scientific research, award-winning films and a new national 

 magazine, Air & Space/ Smithsonian. 



July 3 



Special Event: The Festival of American Folklife Japan Program hosted an evening 

 for the Contributing Membership of the Smithsonian's National Associate Program, 

 co-sponsored by the Embassy of Japan. 



July 21 



Information System: The Conservation Analytical Laboratory became an active 

 contributing member of the international Conservation Information Network. This 

 new information system, still in an experimental , developmental stage, is 

 expected to become a major source of technical information for conservation 

 specialists worldwide. 



July 24 



Obituary: Adelyn Dchme Breeskin, Senior Curatorial Advisor at the National 

 Museum of American Art and a pre-eminent Mary Cassatt scholar, died in northern 

 Italy a little more than a week after celebrating her 90th birthday at the museum 



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