Museum and Sculpture Garden, proving so popular that December ip 

 its run was extended twice. The exhibition was sup- 

 ported in part by the Smithsonian Special Exhibition 

 Fund. 



December 14 



■ Research The Office of International Relations and 

 the Office of Sponsored Projects organized a grants 

 forum for Smithsonian research staff to learn about the 

 funding of international research and exchanges sup- 

 ported by the Council on International Exchange of 

 Scholars, the International Research and Exchanges 

 Board, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. 

 Agency for International Development. 



December 14 



■ Exhibition "Camera Portraits: Photographs from the 

 National Portrait Gallery, London, 1839— 1989" opened at 

 the National Portrait Gallery. Likenesses of distinguished 

 British personalities from the gallery's sister institution 

 illustrated the development of portrait photography from 

 the age of the daguerreotype to the present day. Key fig- 

 ures in British history — from Queen Victoria to the 

 Beatles — were represented in works by leading British and 

 American photographers. The exhibition was made possi- 

 ble by a grant from Mobil. 



December if 



■ Announcement Friends of Asian Arts at the Freer and 

 Saclder Galleries was established to encourage new inter- 

 est in the galleries and to support their collections acqui- 

 sition programs. Forty-two friends joined the 

 membership group in its charter year, and their benefac- 

 tions totaled $65,500. 



December ip 



■ Exhibition "300 Years of American Papermaking" 

 opened in the National Museum of American History's 

 Hall of Graphic Arts. The exhibition commemorates the 

 building of the first paper mill in the American colonies in 

 1690 near Germantown, Pennsylvania, by William Ritten- 

 house and his partners; the men and women who contrib- 

 uted to the industry's astonishing growth; and the 

 manifold utilitarian and artistic uses of paper products. 



■ Grant The Harry Winston Research Foundation an- 

 nounced a gift of $1 million toward the complete renova- 

 tion of the National Museum of Natural History's 

 Geology, Gems, and Minerals Hall. 



December 24 



U Broadcast J.S. Bach's "Christmas Oratorio," copro- 

 duced by Radio Smithsonian and Washington station 

 WETA-FM and featuring the Smithsonian Chamber Or- 

 chestra, was broadcast over public radio. 



January 



■ Exhibition The Smithsonian Institution Traveling 

 Exhibition Service added to its 1991 program the exhibi- 

 tions "Songs of My People," "Capturing the Spirit: Por- 

 traits of Contemporary Mexican Artists," "Saynday was 

 coming along. ..Silverhorn's Drawings of the Kiowa 

 Trickster," and "Strength and Diversity: Japanese Amer- 

 ican Women, 1885-1990," thus continuing its commit- 

 ment to presenting exhibitions that celebrate the many 

 voices of the steadily growing multicultural society in 

 the United States. 



January 



■ Research A previously unknown species of beaked 

 whale was discovered — a very rare event — off the coast 

 of Peru by a team of scientists from the National Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, the Center for the Study of Ce- 

 taceans in Lima, and the Royal Institute of Natural 

 Sciences in Belgium. 



January 



■ Publicity! Marketing The Office of Public Affairs or- 

 ganized and implemented a comprehensive publicity 

 plan in connection with the publication of the biogra- 

 phy Benjamin 0. Davis, Jr.: American that resulted in ex- 

 tensive publicity and the highest sales for any book 

 published by Smithsonian Institution Press. Among 

 General Davis's many local and network television ap- 

 pearances were those on "Good Morning, America" 

 (ABC), "CBS This Morning" and "The World Today" 

 (CNN). 



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