May 23-24 



Workshop: Dr. Anson Hines of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center conducted 

 a workshop on the ecology of blue crabs and other portunid species. 



May 26 



Obituary: Dr. Arthur M. Sackler, 73, primary benefactor of the Sackler Gallery died 

 unexpectedly in New York City without realizing his expressed dream of participating 

 in the public opening of the new museum that would bear his name. 



May 27 



Course: The National Associates Lecture and Seminar Program presented an extensive 

 program of lectures, workshops and seminars in Madison, Wisconsin. The four-day 

 series was presented by Smithsonian curators and members of the University of 

 Wisconsin-Madison faculty. 



May 29 



Reinstallation: The completion of the National Portrait Gallery's reinstallation of 



its permanent collection was marked with the opening of "Stage Portraits: Photographs 



by Mathew Brady from the Frederick Hill Meserve Collection." 



May 29 



Exhibition: "Portraits from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters" 

 opened at the National Portrait Gallery. 



June 



Award: The Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities awarded a grant to the National 

 Museum of African Art to support one of the museum's inaugural exhibitions, "African 

 Art in the Cycle of Life," which featured works on loan from other collections. 



June 



Research: The Mineral Management Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior 

 awarded a contract to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute for studies on the 

 long-term biological effects of the April 1986 oil spill on the Caribbean coast of 

 Panama. The five-year project is centered at the institute's Galeta Marine 

 Laboratory. 



June 



Outreach: The Office of Public Affairs began distributing a Spanish version of the 

 Smithsonian's monthly calendar of events to 113 Hispanic publications and civic 

 organizations. In July, the Spanish language calendar was published as a paid 

 advertisement in the Washington newspaper El Latino. Reprints of the calendar ad 

 were made available to the public during the Washington, D.C., Hispanic-American 

 Festival and the Smithsonian's Tarde Hispana. 



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