shadow puppet plays accompanied by a gamelan orches- 

 tra of artists from Central Java who delighted audiences 

 with their traditional performances. 



May 20 



■ Acquisition The National Museum of Natural His- 

 tory acquired the fossilized thigh bone of a no-million- 

 year-old adult sauropod — the largest dinosaur bone ever 

 found in the northeastern United States. 



May 20 



■ Seminar An evening seminar on "quality" in art initi- 

 ated a program of issues forums for debate on controver- 

 sial topics, organized by the Office of Interdisciplinary 

 Studies. 



May 2} 



■ Conservation The Office of Printing and Photo- 

 graphic Services participated in ongoing meetings of 

 Subcommittees IT9-2 and IT9-3 of the American Na- 

 tional Standards Institute to develop test methods to de- 

 termine archival permanence in photographic materials. 



May 30 



■ Renovation Gravel walkways in the Enid A. Haupt 

 Garden were replaced with brick, thus greatly improv- 

 ing accessibility. 



Summer 



■ Workshops Workshops for middle- and secondary- 

 school science teachers were held in Arizona, Minnesota, 

 Wisconsin, and Massachusetts under the auspices of the 

 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Project STAR, 

 an innovative curriculum development program based 

 on examples from astronomy. 



June 



■ Research Smithsonian Institution Libraries issued an 

 international call for applicants to its new SIL/Dibner 

 Library Resident Scholar Research Program. Established 

 to support research into the history of science and tech- 

 nology, the program is funded by The Dibner Fund and 

 will support one or two scholars a year for up to three 

 months each. 



June 



m Conference National Science Resources Center Execu- 

 tive Director Doug Lapp was one of 40 science educa- 

 tion experts to participate by invitation in the Johnson 

 Foundation— sponsored national conference on "Science 

 Education for the 1990s: Strategies for Change." 



June 



■ Expansion Construction began on the annex to the 

 National Museum of the American Indian's Research 

 Branch in the Bronx, New York. 



June 



■ Exhibition Smithsonian Institution Libraries hosted 

 a reception with the National Museum of African Art 

 for "Africa Illustrated: Fantasy and Reality Before 

 1900," an exhibition of books organized by SIL and the 

 museum. 



June 



m Publication The inaugural issue of the Contributor, a 

 semiannual membership newsletter and update on insti- 

 tutional activities and funding needs, was distributed to 

 Contributing Members of the Smithsonian National As- 

 sociate Program. 



June 



■ Appointment Stephen Polcari, author of Abstract Ex- 

 pressionism and the Modern Experience, joined the Archives 

 of American Art as New York regional director. 



June 



m Collection Information The Archives of American Art 

 entered its catalog database in the Research Library In- 

 formation Network (RUN) system. 



June 



m Special Audiences A public service announcement on 

 accessibility at the Smithsonian for disabled visitors was 

 videotaped in the museums with Dianne Pilgrim, direc- 

 tor of Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of Design, par- 

 ticipating as the on-camera spokesperson. The television 

 spot was close-captioned and distributed nationally. 



