February 25 



Lecture: Ohio Senator and former astronaut John Glenn commemorated the twenty-fifth 

 anniversary of his flight in Friendship 7 in a program cosponsored by the Resident 

 Associate Program and the National Air and Space Museum. 



February 26 



Special Event: Sponsoring, Sustaining, Patron, and James Smithson Society Members of 

 the Contributing Membership participated in a special tour of "Portraits of Nature: 

 Paintings by Robert Bateman," an exhibition at the National Museum of Natural 

 History. 



February 27 



Exhibition: "Gene Davis, A Memorial Exhibition" opened at the National Museum of 

 American Art. The eighty-four paintings and drawings by Davis, a major figure in 

 twentieth-century American art, included the finest examples of his familiar stripe 

 paintings, as well as a selection of his best work in lesser-known formats. 

 Subsequent programs included workshops for children and a panel discussion with five 

 prominent figures in the art world reviewing color painting and its continued 

 importance. 



March 



Grant: The National Museum of American History received approximately SI million from 

 the DuPont Company in support of "A Material World," a major exhibition, on the use 

 man-made materials in our culture, to open in spring 1988. 



March 



Training: The Conservation Analytical Laboratory announced several new initiatives in 

 its rapidly growing conservation training program. These include a graduate program 

 in conservation science, a joint enterprise with Johns Hopkins University, and a 

 number of Institutionwide postgraduate internships for conservators. 



March 



Publication: The Office of Printing and Photographic Services produced a book as a 

 companion to its exhibition of photographs of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which 

 opened at the Russell Senate Office Building in November 1986. Published by Stackpole 

 Books of Harrisburg, Pa., Reflections on The Wall was well-received and, by the 

 close of the 1987 fiscal year, was in its second printing. 



March 



Publication: The first general brochure for visitors to the Barro Colorado Nature 

 Monument, which is under the custodianship of the Smithsonian Tropical Research 

 Institute, was produced by the Office of Public Affairs. English and Spanish editions 

 of the brochure were printed. 



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