RIPLEY URGES LARGER o THE SMITHSONIAN THE FOLK FEST IS ON! ROLE IN EDUCA nON 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

FOR MUSEUMS Wednesdays through Sundays See Page Three TORCH Ending Sept. 6 No. 76-6 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. July 1976 QUEEN ELIZABETH TO VISIT SI Tour of Castle Includes Crypt; r/ Exhibits in Great Hall, Lounge Queen Elizabeth II will visit the Smithso­ This exhibit, which opens July 2 for one nian Institution July 8 as part of a six-day month, marks the first time that drawings official state visit to the United States in from the Queen's personal collection, at connection with the Bicentennial celebra­ Royal Library, Windsor Castle, will be tion, Secretary Ripley has announced. shown anywhere in the world, and the first The Queen will view the Crypt Room in time all the drawings will be displayed side­ the Castle, ·which contains the remains of by-side. James Smithson, the will in which he makes The "Treasures of London" exhibit will his bequest to the United States for the feature such master works as King Charles founding, at Washington, of an Institution, II's Coronation Tankard, made in 1661 , a "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge hexagonal salt cellar from 1550, and works among men," and other Smithsonian by Louis Osma n, who crafted the crown for memorabilia. the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of She also will view the exhibit "Federal Wales in 1969. City: Plans and Realities" in the Great Hall, Also on view will be the Great Dish made and a special exhibit, "Treasures of Lon­ by Paul de Lamerie in 1741 , considered the don," in the Associates Lounge, that was masterpiece of Britain's greatest goldsmith. organized by the Smithsonian Institution The exhibit, which Graham Hughes, Traveling Exhibition Service and the Director of the Goldsmith's Hall, has termed Goldsmith's Hall in London. the "best collecti on of British silver ever to "Her Majesty's visit is an historical occa­ visit the United States," also contains sion for the Smithsonian, fo r we are an modern jewelry and modern pieces as well as organization that owes its inception to the antique pieces. generosity and far-sighted ness of a great Englishman," Mr. Ripley said. In addition to works from the Worshipful The Queen will arrive at the main entrance Company of Goldsmiths, the medieval guild to the Castle on Jefferson Drive, where she formed in the 12th century, the exhibition will be greeted by Secretary Ripley and Chief also contains loans from other City of Justice Warren Burger, who will be clad in London Compa nies. academic robes. The Worshipful Com pany of Other dignitaries scheduled to be present Fishmongers is lending a Ewer and Basin for the occasion will include Vice President made in 1706 by David Willaume, and the Rockefeller and other members of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers is Smithsonian Board of Regents. including the gilt Warwick vase made by While a group of costumed musicians play Paul Storrs in 1821. Other lenders include flourishes and fanfares from atop the portico, the Bank of England and various London the Quee n will be escorted into the building, churches. to view the Crypt Room. "Treasures of London" will be on display Her presence will mark the first official here through July 18, after which it will tour visit by a member of the British royal fami ly a number of American muse ums a part of British Informotiun Services Photo by Peter Grugeon to the tomb of the man responsible for the the SITES International Salute to the States Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II , pictured at Windsor Castle. creation of what has become one of the program. world's leading cultural and research The Leonardo show will feature 25 organizations. anatomical drawings which heretofore were After viewing the Crypt, the Queen will be bound in three volumes and available only to Text of Joint Reso/ution escorted into the Great Hall, where Secretary a limited number of scholars. Ripley will describe two of the main exhibits A special new gallery on the first floor of Folluwing is a joint resolution prepared natural history specimens and objects of art, in "Federal City," the huge table model of the Museum of Hi story and Technology will for aduption by Congress as an expression of cu lture, history and technology, and through Washington as it existed in 1900, and the house the drawings, which can be viewed as appreciation to Queen Elizabeth II of the the creation of museums for the display and model of the McMillion Commission Plan of works of art as well as accurate scientific people of the United Statesfor the bequest of interpretation of these collections, been 1902, (which, ironically would have razed the documentation on what Leonardo observed. James Smithson to the United States. enabl- privileged to share its resources, not only Castle if implemented). Leonardo is said to have composed 120 ing the establishment of the Smithsonian with the people of the United States, but with From there, the Queen and her party will books based upon his various scientific Institution. the world community, for purposes of educa- enter the Associates Lounge to view studies, and some 600 drawings from these tion, enlightenment, and betterment; and "Treasures of London," an exhibit of out- eventually became part of the British Royal Whereas James Smithson, British subject, Whereas the generous and inspiring be- standing examples of 500 years of British Collection. scholar and scientist, bequeathed his entire quest of James Smithson continues to enrich silver work. The exhibit also reveals important new estate to the United States of America "to the lives of citizens of every nation: Now, While in the Lounge, Chief Justice Burger, discoveries made when a number of the found at Washington under the name of the therefore, be it in his capacity as Chancellor, is to read a drawings from the Royal Library were Smithsonian Institution an establishment Resolved by the Senate and House of Joint Resolution of Congress expressing to studied under ultraviolet light. for the increase and diffusion of Knowledge Representatives of the United States of Her Majesty the appreciation of the people Parts of drawings which had faded were among men;" and America in Congress assembled. That on of the United States for the bequest ofJames once again visible, revealing important Whereas the Congress ofthe United States the occasion of the visit of Her Majesty, Smithson. details. Ultraviolet photos of two drawings in 1836 accepted the bequest and pledged the Queen Elizabeth 11 , during this year of the For this occasion, the Smithsonian Mace in this exhibit are displayed beside the faith of this nation to the execution of this Bicentennial of the United States, the people will be taken from its case in the Crypt and original works. trust, and in 1846 provided for the establish- of this nation make known their apprecia­ placed upon a table near the Chief Justice. A special catalogue will include an in- ment of the Smithsonian Institution; and tion and gratitude for the gift of James In addition to visiting the Castle, the troduction by Sir Anthony Blunt, former Whereas the Smiths'onian Institution, Smithson, a gift whose significance grows Queen also has sent a group of rare Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, since the time of its founding, has been with the passage of time and remains a anatomical drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and advisor for the Queen's pictures and mindful of the charge stated in the will of lasting symbol of the indivisible cultural from her personal collection for an exhibit at drawings since 1972, and an essay by James Smithson and has, through research bonds which link Great Britain and the the Museum of History and Technology. Kenneth Keele. and publication, through the collecting of United States of America. On display in "Treasures Of London," (I. to r.): 1741 Great Dish by Paul de Lamerie; 1680 Porringer; 1737 Cup and Coverby Paul de Lamerie;1661 Tankard from Coronation of Charles II. Page 2 THE SMITHSONIAN TORCH July 1976 Certificates Presented To 49 S I Fellows Each year the Office of Academic Studies, headed by Edward S. Davidson, welcomes approximately 50 pre- and post-doctoral fellows to the Institution. This program, initiated in 1968, permits outstanding young scholars from the U. S. and abroad to spend from six months to a year in advanced research at the Smithsonian. Fellowships are awarded competitively through an elaborate internal review system. The program, serving to enrich Smithso­ nian research with the benefits of new ideas, emphasizes cooperative scholarly relationships between fellows and staff, rather than completion of specific projects. Each fellow has a Smithsonian "advisor," and is encouraged to use SI facilities such as labs and field stations, while investigating a specific topic. Though the research studies are completed at various times, certificates of academic achievement are awarded each spring to those fellows who have been at the Smithso­ nian for six months or more. For the academic year 1975-76, Secretary Ripley presented the following certificates on June 9: American and Cultural History - Cynthia Field, Richard Glasow, Scott Hambly, Anita Jones, George McDaniel, Martha Sandweiss and Rebecca Welch. MHT Crowd Welcomes Flavorful 'Nations' Anthropology - Bernardo Dougherty, By Susan Bliss Andy, and Fred Astaire, and in the sports past, gazed sentimentally at Room 20 I, a Geoffrey Gamble, Margaret Hardin, Brian section, where film clips of famous sports sixth grade classroom in the Dunham Hesse and Gus Pantel. Marble halls reverberated with musical figures fla shed on a screen. Elementary School, transported from late Earth Sciences - Peter Jezek and John vibrations from a German band, and the air Turning a dark corner, a visitor was 19th century Cleveland. Sinton. carried tempting aromas of sausage, quiche, surprised and delighted by the colorful array Still others were fascinated by a pen­ Environmental Sciences Robert cheese, beer, and other ethnic delicacies, as a of neon signs flashing and blinking. The cilmaking machine as it spewed out pencils at Hoage, Rasanayagam Rudran, Sandra crowd estimated at nearly 2,000 gathered to signs, pictured above in black and white, a rate of ten per minute, slowed down for the Spurgeon, Jerry Thomas and Brenda welcome "A Nation of Nations" to its five­ represent in a single display the ethnic, exhibit from its capacity of 190, to Tremper. year home in the Museum of History and economic, and cultural diversity of our demonstrate American mass production Evolutionary and Systematic Biology - Technology. country. techniq ues. Wayne Clark, Cristina Dougherty, Bruce This largest single exhibit ever created in Bittersweet memories seemed to hold men, For guests who had come just to be Hayward, Francisco Leccia, Albert Myrick, the Museum has something for everyone. young and old, before a section of a Ft. exuberant, there were trails of savory aroma Jr., Timothy Palmer, Alfred Rosenberger, Most visitors found at least one display to Belvoir Army Barrack, complete with latrine wafting from the tables by the Ft. McHenry Seymour Sohmer, Robert Ward and Anders study closely before moving on to others. and footlockers arranged in perfect military flag, and dancing to the music of the German Waren. Crowds seemed to linger longest before fashion. as for an imeending inspection. band; with the foucauJt penduJ.~UMau;· \8oIiWilolil_-::::~:;;;~ History of Art - Ruth Bohan, I1diko De the old movies of Charlie Chaplin, Amos and Others, i entifying with a different sort of slightly out-of-sync metronome. Angelis, Marc Miller, Deborah Muller, Neil Printz, Joan Seeman, Julie Wortman and Joined SI In '32 Ann Yonemura. SMITHSONIAN TORCH History of Science and Technology - July 1976 Christopher Beam, Virginia Drachman, Susan' Frey, Robert Friedel, Arthur Nunes, Published for Smithsonian Institu­ Rehder Retires With Plans Jr. and Leonard S. Reich. tion personnel by the Smithsonian Tropical Biology - Peter Abrams, Carol Office of Public Affairs, Gerald Lip­ To Continue Mollusk Study Augspurger, Eric Fischer, David Janos, son. Interim Editor; Kathry n Kentwood Wells and Orrey Young. Lindeman. Ass ista nt. By Tom Harney Dr. Rehder estimated that on his field trips, some of which involved schooner cruises covering over a thousand miles, he's Dr. Harald Rehder had his first sight of the helped dredge, pick up by J:tand on the reefs beautiful curving palms and sunlit blue or in tidal pools, and by skin diving, as many Bicentennial Inventory Of Art lagoon of a tropical Pacific island in 1957 as 100,000 mollusks, to amass a South when the Smithsonian-Bredin Expedition Pacific collection that is unmatched. vessel anchored off Polynesia's Tikehav "He's brought back enormous numbers of Lists 150,000 Paintings Atoll. specimens, and at the same time he's also While there he went skindiving to collect responsible for seeing to it that we have the By Marge Byers been especially valuable in developing the living mollusks (shellfish) from a coral reef best curated collection of mollusks in the Inventory." and lagoon bottom: "It was an unforgettable world," said Dr. Rehder's colleague Dr. In May 1971 , NCFA asked for partners in experience," he says, "And it suggested Joseph Rosewater. The Bicentennial Inventory of American the census-taking by mailing 6,000 explan­ something to me." The son of a botanist at Harvard Univer­ Paintings Executed Before 1914 is just what atory brochures to museums, historical soci­ What it suggested has grown into a 19 year sity's Arnold Arboretum, Dr. Rehder credits its name implies, a national "census" of eties, service associations and clubs across project that isn't yet completed - a great the scientific atmosphere in which he was American art. A major contribution by the country. It was Miss Booth's idea to in­ survey of the distinctive character of mollusk raised to an early interest in natural history. NCF A to America's 200th birthday celebra­ volve many Americans in the project during life on the reefs and shores in the lagoons and Family vacations on Cape Cod and near tion, it opens for use on July 4th. ,the Bicentennial year. deeper offshore islands and atolls of New Hampshire's mountain lakes, gave him A nonselective accounting of works, it has Professional and amateur volunteers Polynesia. the opportunity to collect and study shells, returned many "lost" paintings to record. helped locate the paintings and notified the It is "an area of particular interest to the an interest that grew through his un­ This massive scholarly undertaking began NCFA Inventory staff. marine biologist because of its marginal dergraduate years at Bowdoin. five years ago with Bicentennial funds ap­ The American Association of University location bordered on the east by the deep As a graduate student in malacology at propriated by Congress. Women made the Inventory a national water between it and South America and on Harvard in 1932 under Dr. William Clench, The Inventory now lists 150,000 paintings program; in the San Francisco Bay area, one the south by the deep and cold water he jumped at the opportunity when Dr. Paul - indexed by artist, owner/ location, and woman heard about the project from a friend stretching down to the Antarctic Continent," Bartsch wrote and told him that there was an 245 separate subject headings - with all the and, with no institutional sponsorship, simp­ said Dr. Rehder, who retired last month after opening on the Smithsonian staff. data fed into a computer. A directory of the ly plunged in, said Miss Booth. 44 years with the Smithsonian. Dr. Bartsch himself had been hired in 1896 Inventory, an "index to the index," will be "We truly could not have done without all Pursuing this grail has taken Dr. Rehder by W. H. Dall, the first eminent mollusk published in August. these volunteers," she says gratefully. "We're to the South Pacific nine times and to more authority to be associated with the Smithso­ Planned as a standard reference work, it the manufacturing plant and they're the than 50 Polynesian islands, from well-known nian, and, along with Dall, an important includes introductory text and an farmers producing the raw material. That's land marks like Tahiti, where on one expedi­ figure in raising the MN H mollusk collection alphabetical listing of 13,000 artists with the what made it work, and it's so beautiful and tion he and MNH's venerable Dr. Waldo to where it rivaled the British Museum's. Dr. number, but not titles, of their paintings so Bicentennial that it hurts. I'm excited Schmidt joined with a group of natives in Rehder succeeded Dr. Bartsch in 1946 as the recorded so far in the Inventory. In­ about it. It's not flashy, not something you dancing the hula, to remote and seldom man in charge of this collection. stitutional, but not personal, owners of look at and admire, but it's something to visited island groups like the Marquesas and The careers of Dall and Bartsch at the recorded works and published sources of use." Pitcairn, where nothing or very little was Smithsonian were long ones and Dr. Rehder information also are given in the directory. The Inventory is open to almost everyone known of its marine life until Dr. Rehder's is following in this tradition. His retirement Coordinator and design~r of the Inventory - from scholars to high school students arrival. does not mean, however, that he intends to is Abigail Booth, formerly NCF A's assistant writing term papers, and may be used in Pitcairn Island, he said, was one of the stop working. curator of exhibitions, assisted by Martha person or by mail. The service is free except most intriguing of all the islands he has He's still writing up his studies of the Andrews, who has worked on the Inventory when a query is so large or complex that it studied, not only because of its unique material he and his wife, Lois, collected on a since 1972. Over the years, the women have crosses many categories and involves going mollusks, but also because it is the home of 1974 trip to the Easter Islands which has been joined by 35 others - mostly part-time back to the computer. the descendants of the Bounty mutiny. yielded more than 30 species new to science students. As a public research service, the Inventory "I went there three times and stayed each (Dr. Rehder has described 285 new species "Having such a constantly changing staff contains 30,000 photographic reproductions time with the Young family, descendants of and subspecies during his career). was not an accident, but the way I set it up," - glossies, snapshots, postcards, newspaper Edward Young, one of the mutineers. They In the fall he and his wife plan a cruise Miss Booth said. "Many have come back and magazine clippings - which are for and the other islanders were very friendly to Polynesia's Tokelau islands where once summer after summer. They are a lovely study only at NCFA and will not be loaned and hospitable, and it was always a thrill to again he will be making pioneering shell young group of very bright people who have or copied. return." collections. July 1976 THE SMITHSONIAN TORCH Page 3 Ripley Advises AAM Margaret Mead Museums Still Untap'ned Resources Cited For H~lp ,., ' " On Symposium At a time when educational institutions "Here on the screen we could associate the future. As possIbly the last legItimate Dr. Margaret Mead received special are beset by excessive bureaucracy, soaring words beautifully with objects exhibited, a growth industry, museums will continue recognition by Secretary Ripley at the close costs and falling standards, the nation's museum-like technique, but performed the over the years to amass more of the world's of a three-day series of preparatory work­ museums remain an untapped source of way Mme. Montessori showed us years ago, artifacts. shops June 14-16 to help plan the Smith­ education, and this must be changed, so that we reinforce the learning process in a "Museums thus have a moral responsibili­ sonian's sixth international symposium. It Secretary Ripley said recently. way that children have always responded to ty to preserve these objects with newly will be held June 14-17, 1977, on the theme, In a speech to the 71 st annual meeting of - with touch, sight and a deeper perception. refined skills, and on the part of the Smithso- "Kin and Communities: The Peopling of the American Association of Museums, May "Perhaps in this way, museums could find nian Institution, I can testify to our desire to America." a firmer, a more committed involvement serve as a leader in the field of conservation, 31 in Washington, Mr. Ripley said the past Recognizing Dr. Mead for chairing the with the new media techniques and in the but also the right to point out ... how much decade has seen a "marked increase of school Smithsonian education program on families, process produce our new open university." more, how long and for 'what purposes we participation in museum experiences, at the and for her decades of cooperation with the Mr. Ripley concluded, "I think museums the people can continue to sully our early school level, and training at graduate Smithsonian, Mr. Ripley presented her with do possess some of the ultimate weapons for planetary nest?" levels, and interplay in course structure." an embossed leather album containing He predicted that this would continue, but photographs of materials in the Smithsonian noted that, "the meaning of museums still 51 Presented Service Awards collections representing the various cultures eludes the public," and museum officiais in which she had done field work. "must begin to learn how to make more Career service awards were presented Building Manager's Department: Pearl C. Mr. Ripley took note ofthe coincidence of effective educational use" of the nation's recently to 13 staff members of the National Carroll (15); William E. Wells (IS), and the Bicentennial and the 75th anniversary of several thousand museums. Air and Space Museum and the National Calvin L. Battle (10). Dr. Mead's birth, and praised her continuing "They represent virtually untapped Museum of Natural History in recognition Entomology Department: Ralph E. efforts to call attention to the needs and the resources within the academic community, of a total of 880 years of service to the Crabill J r. (20); Thelma F. Smith (20); Oliver future of the entire human family. and one would hope that the educational Smithsonian. S. Flint J r. (15); Richard C. Froeschner (15); The Secretary discussed the importance of establishment would explore how best to Awards at NASM, presented by Director Gloria N. House (10); Virginia M. Ford (10), families and communities as transmitters of integrate the assets of museums ... into the Michael Collins, went to Winthrop S. Shaw, and Penelope B. Smallwood (10). the diverse cultural traditions which are teaching mosaic," the Secretary added. museum specialist (30 years); Frank Winter, In Exhibits, a service emblem was award­ manifest in such current Smithsonian ex­ But, warned Mr. Ripley, as museums restoration assistant (10); Joseph Fichera, ed to Toussaint M. Wallace for IS years of hibitions as "A Nation of Nations" and "The themselves seek more federal and state aid, museum specialist (30); Sylvandous S. service. Golden Door," as well as in the Festival of they run the risk of becoming enmeshed in Anderson, exhibit specialist (30); Tony Invertebrate Zoology: Dessie Mae Best American Folklife. the same bureaucratic web that has troubled Baby, chief of exhibits (15); Michael N. (30); James A. Pendergrass (30); Roscoe C. He also described the Smithsonian as "a educational institutions for the past few Mikitish, administrative clerk (20), and Johnson (30); Norman R. Baylor (IS), and big extended family of institutions where years. Wilford A . Powell, museum Klaus Ruetzler (10). whole families come for the shared pleasure "As museums come closer to success in technician (10). Mineral Sciences: Paul E. Desautels (20); of learni':lg." establishing a precedent for government Eugene Jarosewich (10), and Kurt A. Also receiving service awards were Costen "Kin and Communities" was developed in funding for services rendered, akin Fredriksson (10). response to growing enthusiasm for a to the massive support for colleges and Bennett, labor leader (20); Calvin C. Clark, In the Office of the Director, William P. electrician (15); Richard L. Wakefield, nationwide popular and scholarly focus on schools, it would be wise to look ahead and Haynes and Margaret Santiago received the place of kinship and communities in the consider that with federal funding come supervisory electrician (10); James C. Nyce, emblems for 30 and 15 years of service exhibit specialist (25); Walter R. Roderick, past and future of American civilization. certain reciprocals. respectively. Last month's three-day program included "Money begets power, but the ultimate museum specialist (20), and Harold R. Paleobiology Department: James P. Payne. laborer (20). workshops on "Techniques of StUdying power rests with the dispensers of the money. Ferrigno (20); Donald A. Dean (15); Donna Contemporary and Historical Families," Vast money produces regimentation and Carcer service emblems were awarded to Lce Copeland (10), and Robert W. Purdy 38 MNH employees: and "Families and Communities as pedantry. Museums would do well to ( 10). Ed ucators." measure thus their independence against Anthropology Department: Saul H. In Vertebrate Zoology, Ernest A. Lachner Plans for the 1977 symposium are being their eventual dependence on governmcnt Riesenberg (30 years); Bethune M. Gibson and VictorG. Springer received emblems for directed by Wilton S. Dillon, director of fu nd s," he advised. (10). and Herman Viola (10). 30 and 15 yea rs of service respectively. Smithsoni~n Symposia and Seminars, and Mr. Ripley observed that the world of Botany Department: Tillie H. Berger. SI Oceanographic Sorting Center: Katie his staff, Dorothy Richardson, Jane J . education is in a "terrible dilemma today. (30): JoseCuatrecasas (20): Tom F. Stroman (20); Betty J. Landrum (20); Wallace and Carla Borden. The certitude and self-righteousness of past Soderstrom (15), and Clara T. Simmons Alice P. Flerchinger (10), and Robert P. years has been replaced by self-doubt over ( 10). Higgins (10). failing standards, diminishing numbers of young students and incredibly inflationary pressures." Columbus Exhibit Caps Five Years Of Effort "A century or more of increasing support By Linda St. Thomas which was read King Ferdinand and Queen Spanish monarchs the location of their for education from state and federal sources, Silvio A. Bedini didn't start out to be a Isabella's decree announcing Columbus' newly-discovered lands. gradually replacing, especially recently, Columbian scholar, but after five years of 1492 voyage and providing two ships and A navigator and shipmaster of the Santa much of the earlier highly motivated private research and hunting for artifacts, he certain­ crew for the venture. Maria during the first journey to the New or religious philanthropy, has produced a ly knows a lot more than most people about World, de la Cosa also sailed with Columbus massive series of formulas for education," he The artifact was taken from the church of Christopher Columbus and his times. in his second voyage. said. San Jorge at Palos, the Spanish port city "Last spring I spent several weeks in Spain where Columbus began his Atlantic cross­ The wind rose design beneath the MHT The decline in the quality of education is visiting the cathedrals, libraries, museums ing. foucault pendulum is based on this map's due, Mr. Ripley added, at least in part to "its and palaces see king Columbus documents The last item to arrive for exhibition was original wind rose compass. very massiveness, its ponderous rules, its and artifacts," said M r. Bedini, deputy direc­ Other treasures exhibited here are a royal denial of individuality through rote teaching, the portrait on wood of Columbus from the tor of the Muse um of Hi story and Bibli oteca Nacional in Madrid. It is believed decree assigning Columbus an additional as well as succumbing to the new luxurious Technology. "I had already immersed myself castle and a lion for his coat-of-arms, the first modes of thought of the Sixties, the mindless by some scholars to be the most authentic in the literature on Columbus before the trip portrait poss ibly completed within Colum- letter written by Columbus in the New drive towards self-fulfillment, which so often so we could tell the tory of 'Columbus and bus' lifetime. . World, a summary of his journal merely masks a lack of discipline and loss of faith ." hi s Time' at the Smithsonian." The exhibit The Cathedral at Seville loaned the handwritten by the son of a Columbus sailor, opened last month in M HT. Smithsonian seve n books, with marginal and a decree naming the navigator and "his Turning to the field of television, Mr. The research sta rted in 1971 when Mr. notations in Columbu ' handwriting, for this children and successors" Admiral, Viceroy Ripley said that this most promisi ng of the Bedini, on behalf of Secretary Ripley, served ex hibition, Mr. Bedini said, noting that and Governor of all the "terrae firmae" and new techniques of exposing an object and on a presidential committee to establish "This loan became somewhat complicated islands he discovered. increasing the appeal of the museum ex­ Columbus Day as a national holiday. beca use the books were left to the Cathedral The map and two documents from Don perience "continues to be a failure." Instead of parades and holiday festivities, by Columbus' son, who specified in his will Cristobal Colon's priva te collection will "Now at last public television may come of he suggested to the Spanish cultural attache that the books should never leave the return to Spain in mid-July. The other age, and save us all, citizens and museums that a collection of original documents and premises." objects will be exhibited through December, alike, from the numbing conformity meted artifacts related to King Ferdinand, Queen 1976, in the Museum's first floor pendulum out by the tube. T he most striking display is of the map Isabella, Christopher Columbus and the drawn by de la Cosa in 1500 to show the area. discovery of the New World be loaned to the Cohea, Jones, Smithsonian for the M HT exhi bit. Last April, the Smithsonian was notified Anderson Retire of the visit of King Juan Carlos of Spain, Queen Sophia and Don Cristobal Colon, a Three SI employees, L. Frances Jones, direct descendent of Columbus and the 17th Harold R. Cohea and Ralph Anderson, have duke of Veragua, and the exhibition was recently retired. scheduled to open June 3 to coincide with L. Frances Jones, deputy assistant direc­ their trip to M HT. tor for bureau service with the SI Libraries, Despite the fact that Columbus and other joined the staff in 1949 as an assistant in the Spanish explorers such as Ponce de Leon, Catalog and Acquisitions Divisions and Cortez, de Soto and others began exploring served the Libraries in several positions the Americas more than 480 years ago, Juan during her career. Carlos' tour was the first time in history that Mr. Anderson began working at the a Spanish monarch has visited either Smithsonian as a guard in 1963. He later American Continent, Mr. Bedini said. became a guard company clerk in NMHT The exhibition, which includes the famous and established administrative procedures map of the New World by Juan de la Cosa, is for the guards. He also rewrote the SI guard part of Spain's observa nce of the American manual which the American Association of Bicentennial. It is also the first time these 39 Museums called the best of its kind. documents and objects have been brought to When he retired, Mr. Anderson was depu­ the New World or have been exhibited in one ty chief of the Protection Division. place. Mr. Cohea joined the Smithsonian in 1964 At the persona l request of the Spanish as a training officer in the protection divi­ Monarch, numerous Spanish museums, sion, then within the Buildings Management libraries, churches and cathedrals lent Department. He served in various training, national treasures for "Columbus and His development, and systems management Time." Secretary Ripley explains MHT exhibits to King Juan Carlos of Spain (left) during June 3 positions. Included in the exhibit is the pulpit from visit by the King and Queen Sophia to open "Columbus and His Time." Page 4 THE SMITHSONIAN TORCH July 1976 July at the Smit

1 EXHIBITION: A Walk in the Woods. Nature photo­ 8 FREE FILM T HEATRE: Quiltill g Wo m ell: and graphs by Ann Moreton. Approximately 25 color Kingdom Come Sclz ool. Repeat See July 7 TH~ " THUR photographs of spiders, snails, flowers and other fl ora and fauna of the woods. Museum of Natural NATIVE AMERICAN FILM / VIDEO SERIES : Films History, through September 30. by, for and about Native Americans. Sponsored by the Festival ~f American Folklife. Ecology Theater, FREE FILM THEATRE: Gravel Springs Fife and Natural History Building. FREE . 10-1: 45, 3-4: 30. Drum ; Ray Lum, Mule Trader; and Two Black Churches. Films from the Center for Southern Folk­ 9 NATURAL HISTORY FILM : 99 Days to Survival. lore. 12: 30 p.m. Carmichael Auditorium, History The Colorado River explorations of John Wesley and Technology Building. FREE. FRI Powell, portrayed in a Smithsonian Institution film . 12 noon. Baird Auditorium, Natural History Build­ NATIVE AMERICAN FILM / VIDEO SE RIES: ing. FREE. Works by, for and about Native Americans in the Southeast area. Sponsored by the Festival of Ameri­ EXHIBITION: Wedgwood Portrait Medallions of can Folklife. Ecology Theater , Natura l History 12 the Period of the American Revolution. Fifty medal­ Building. 10 a.m. to 1: 45 p.m. and 3 to 4: 30 p. rr,. MON lions along with the original print or drawings on FREE. which they were based, and letters of Josiah Wedgwood expressing support for American inde­ 2 EXHIBITIO N : Anatomical Drawings by Leonardo pendence. National Portrait Gallery. da Vinci. Twenty-five rare drawings represent two FRI distinct periods in da Vi nci's li fe , when he focused on IllUSTRATED lECTURE: The Peoples of Ecuador: dissections of the sensory nervous system and an Past and Present. Dr. Douglas H. Ubelaker, Smith­ understandi ng of the physical function of the eye, sonian Physical Anthropologist, discusses the and later, on the movements of the body. Ultraviolet cultural variety existing in Ecuador today as well as photographs of two drawings are displayed with the the biology and cultural advancement of the pre­ original works, revealing important details that had historic peoples of Ecuador. Biological data about fa ded . Lent by Her Majesty Queen Elizabet h II to populations, including the long-lived Indians on commemorate the American Bicentennial. The fi rst Ecuador's southern coast, will be included. 8 p.m. drawings from the Queen's personal coll ect ion at the Baird Auditorium, Natural History Building. $3. * Royal Lib ra ry Wi ndsor Castl e, England, to be ex hibited . Museum of Hi sto ry a nd Techno logy, through August 2. 13 NMHT TUESDAY FILMS : Tops ; and Toccata for Toy Trains. 1 p.m. Carmichael Auditorium, History NATURA L HI STORY FILM : KOIl -Tiki. Thor TUES and Technology Building. FREE . Heyerdahl's fam ous voyage from Peru to Polynesia . Filmed by the crew . 12 noon. Baird Auditorium, CREATIVE SCREEN: Copenhagen - a kaleido­ Natural History Museum . FREE . scopic view of the city and its people; Sit Down-Sit Drmish - Danish furniture is used to illustrate how 5 CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT: Yehudi Menuhin people live, rest, eat, work and play. Bjorn Wiinblad 5cllool. Six students of the Menuhin School, ages 14 - ceramics, porcelaiIL posters, costumes and foun­ 'Uncle Doc' Gives MON to 17, will perform on violin, viola, cello and piano, tains, aU inspired by nature and designed by under the direction of Robert Masters. Among the Wlinblad. Shown in conjunction with the current Zoo Animal Clock program selections will be Ceilidh for Four Violins exhibition A.ule Jacobsen, Danish Architect __ d by Justin Cnnnoll y, commissioned by the School in ~. Complete showinSS 11 a.m., 12 noon and By William Eilers 1976, and a string quintet by Dvorak. Presented by 1 p.m. The Renwick Gallery. FREE . the Smithsonian under the patronage of Mrs. Gerald The new sound of tinkling bells just inside ILLUSTRATED LECTURE: The Miniature Portrait : the main pedestrian entrance to the National Ford and Lady Ramsbotham, wife of the Ambas­ sador from Great Britain. 8 p.m. Baird Auditorium, 14 A Bond of Love. The history and tradition of Zoo on Connecticut Avenue comes from a WED portrait miniatures from thei r fi rst popularity during whimsical new carillon with animated Natural History Building. Tickets may be obtained at the Great HalL Smithsonian Institution Castle the Renaissance through the 18th century when they animals called a Glockenspiel. were executed on thin slices of ivory, to the literal The $100,000, 38-foot-high Glockenspiel Buildi ng, 10th and Jefferson Drive, S.W. , or call 381 -6264 . FREE . portraits of the American miniature. Speaker: Robin is the only one in Washington and represents Bolton-S mi th, Assistant Curator of 18th and 19th the largest donation by any citizen since the century painting and sculpture, National Collection NMH~ TU ES DA Y FILM : City Out of W ildern ess : zoo was founded 87 years ago. 6 of Fine Arts . Held in conjunction with the current Visitors walking under the eight-foot­ Wash'llg to ll . 1 p . m . Carmichael Audito rium TUES History and Tec hnology Building. FREE. ' exhibition. 8 p.m. Carmichael Auditorium, History square tubular tower will gaze up through and Technology Building. $3. * transparent walls to see a carilloneur playing 7 FREE FILM THEATRE : QlIiltilig Womell : and Kill g­ a baton-type console with the 35-note range. FREE FILM THEATRE : Salute to the Tall Ships - Most of the time, the 36 bells will be rung d a m Co m e Sch ool. The life and culture of filmed in New York and Bermuda in 1964, and The by a custom-made, 35-note magnetic tape WED Appalachia sho wn through dramat ic and docu­ Tall Ships Are Coming, filmed in London and digital automatic playing system hidden in a mentary film s. 12 :30 p.m. Carmichael Auditorium , Amsterdam in 1975. Two films on Operation Sail nearby old gate house. History and Technology Building .. FREE . '76 . 12 : 30 p.m. Carmichael Auditorium, History Just below the four-faced clock atop the and Technology Building. FREE . tower are animals four-feet high. Each is * * * programmed for two movements. *Sponsored by the Resident Associate Program of A lion stands on its hind feet and opens its the Smithsonian. Discounts are available for mem­ 15 FREE FILM THEATRE : Salute to the Tall Ships ; The mouth, an elephant raises its trunk and flaps bers. For attendance or other information call Tall Ships Are Coming. Repeat. See July 14 for its ears, a bear rears to its hind feet and waves 381-5157. THUR details. a paw, and a giraffe swoops its neck out and down to peer at the children. Birds on wires move with the breeze. It will be bown as the Pelzman Memorial Museum Glockenspiel since funds to build it were FESTIVAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLIFE - 1976 bequeathed by the late Dr. Ivy A. Pelzman in memory of his wife, Katherine. Tenth annual festival continues through September 6 Before he died in 1970 at the age of 80, Dr. along the Reflecting Pool between the lincoln Memorial GROUP TOURS Pelzman, a prominent Washington and 17th Street. 11 a .m. to 5 p .m., Wednesdays To arrange group tours call: National Portrait Gallery urologist, spent his last years going over through Sundays (and July 5) . Participants change 381-6347; Museum of History and Technology; school or plans for the Glockenspiel. weekly. Music , dance, foods, games, crafts, folklore adult tours; 381-4141 ; Hirshhorn Museum 381-6713 ; Museum Known fondly as "Uncle Doc," his inspira­ represent the following theme areas (participants change of Natural History 381-6135. National Collection of Fine Arts tion came from the Glockenspiel at the weekly) : Old Ways in the New World - France and or The Renwick Gallery 381-6541. children's zoo in New York's Central Park where he often walked with his grandnieces Poland (1-5) ; Great Britain and Portugal (7-11) ; Yugo­ slavia (14-18 ); Belgium and Egypt (21-25) ; Germany WALK-IN TOURS and grandnephews. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Located near the Dorcas gazelle yard, the and Pakistan (28-Aug. 1) . African Diaspora - Haiti (1 -11) ; liberia, Trinidad and Tobago (14-25) together Highlights - Monday through Saturday : between 10 a.m. Glockenspiel plays every hour on the hour and 12 noon. from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Bells chime on the with U.S . groups. Regional America - five major quarter hour. Fifty tunes are on tape. regions. South (1-5 ); Upland South (7-11) ; Heartland Bronze bells for the instrument were cast (14-18); West (21 -25) ; Pacific Northwest (28-Aug. 1) . Museum of Natural History at the Holland foundry of the I. T. Vardin Native Americans - coordinated with Regional Museum guides provide spot talks on exhibits throughout the Company of Cincinnati. The foundry is the America . Tribes from the Southeast (1-5) ; Southern museum. 10 a.m.-2 p.m., seven days a week. world's largest and dates back to 1660. Plains (7-11 ); Prairie (14-18); Northern Plains (21-25) ; The Glockenspiel is the largest ever made Northwest Coast (28-Aug. 1) . Working Americans - Foreign Language Tours are scheduled in advance (call 381- by the company, which has provided bells for Workers Who Build (1 -11) ; Workers Who Clothe Us 6135 ) for the following : French, Spanish; Italian, German, more than 10,000 churches and 100 (14-25 ); Workers in Communications, Arts, and Japanese, Portuguese and Arabic. cathedrals throughout North America. Recreation. Family Folklore. Children's Area. Evening Zoo director Theodore H. Reed said of the Conce rts - 5-8 p.m., each night except July 4, some National Collection of ~ine Arts. Walk-in tours of the perma­ gift. "We have a memorial that is simple, specialized, some all-festival samplers. Foods demon­ ment and special exhibitions. Monday through Friday : 12 dignified, charming, whimsical, practical strated, sampled and sold along with related cookbooks noon. Printed self-tours provided free. and a source of great amusement to the and utensils . Fiddler's Convention July ·4. FREE . children and visiting adults." . National Portrait Gallery. Walk-in tours of the permanent and special exhibitions. Daily between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. July 1976 THE SMITHSONIAN TORCH Page 5 • Big Cats Move sonzan Institution To New Home

16 NATURAL HISTORY FILM: Krakatoa - The re­ SUPPER CONCERT: A Courtyard Full of Brass. birth of a volcanic island .in the Sunda Straits; Joplin rags, Sousa marches, works by Charles Ives FRI. Succession on Lava - the process of life reestablish­ and William Billings, performed by the Gallery Brass ing itself on lava flows. 12 noon. Baird Auditorium, Quintet. Box supper and beverages served. 8 p.m. Natural History Museum. FREE . Courtyard, Fine Arts and Portrait Gallery Building, 8th and F Streets N.W. Raindate: July 29. $12.50. * ILLUSTRATED LECTURE : Theodore Roszak : Sculpture Before and After World War II. Joan CREA TIVE SCREEN: Copenhagen; Sit Down - Seeman, NCFA pre-doctoral Fellow from Stanford Sit Danish ; Bjorn Wiinblad. Complete showings 11 University, will discuss this major sculptor whose a.m. , 12 noon and 1 p.m. For program details see work ranged from geometric abstraction to a July 13. The Renwick Gallery. dramatic, subjective style and represented a trans­ ition between the machine esthetics of the 1930's and t he expressionism of the postwar decade. 12 : 30 p. m. 28 ILLUSTRATED LECTURE : The Cosmic Saga. Speaker: Dr. Cyril Ponnamperuma, Professor of Four white tigers and three lions seem very National Collection of Fine Arts. FREE . happy in their new home at the National WED Chemistry and Director of the Laboratory of Zoo's Dr. William H. Mann Lion and Tiger Chemical Evolution, University of Maryland. Dr. EXHIBITION: Th e Daguerreotypes of Southworth Exhibit. Ponnamperuma traces our society through the first 17 and Hawes (1843-1861 ). Over 100 daguerreotypes The display, which doesn't look like a radio message transmitted to a distant galaxy, in­ SAT from the nation's most prestigious portrait studio of building and definitely is not a cage, opened the mid-19th century. National Portrait Gallery. cluding the current scientific research and data in May when the animals were returned from collected in our search for life beyond earth, and zoos in Chicago and Cincinnati, where they 20 NMHT TUESDAY FILM : An Independent Voice : predictions about how such findings may affect our stayed during preparation of the new three­ The Community Newspaper In America. 1 p.m. everyday lives. 8 p.m . Carmichael Auditorium, acre quarters. TUES Carmichael Auditorium, History and Techl1ology History and Technology Building. $5. * The big cats each have about one-third of Building. FREE . an acre, complete with moats, to roam FREE FILM THEATRE: USArt - the evolution of around and establish life patterns as they 21 LECTURE/ PERFORMANCE/ PICNIC: Mikhail American art from Colonial times to today; The would in the wild. Baryshnikov and Gelsey Kirkland in a selection of Year They Invented the United States; and Now's To preserve the natural setting, all service WED pas de deux, and Baryshnikov's solo performance of the Time - two Bicentennial films from TIME, INC. areas, offices and mechanical rooms are Vestris. The program will be preceeded by a discus­ 12 :30 p.m. Carmichael Auditorium, History and underground. The structure conforms to the sion by Naima Prevots, Chairman, Dance Depart­ Technology Building. FREE. contour of the hilltop and space has been set ment, American University, on the technique and aside for educational graphics. repertoire of the two dancers. A cold picnic supper 29 ILLUSTRATED LECTURE : Victorian Gardens at Visitors may observe lions and tigers from will be served. Lecture and picnic: 7 p.m. Per­ the · Smithsonian . Speaker: James Buckler, Smith- 800 linear feet of viewing space with no visual formance - 8 : 30 p. m. Wolf Trap Farm Park. $20. * THUR sonian Horticulturist and designer of the Institution's barriers. Inside the structure are two large new garden. Mr. Buckler will discuss the philosophy glass-fronted animal exhibits and 25 holding FREE FILM THEATRE: The Last Boat Home. The and planning of the Victorian-style garden and share areas for breeding stock, which are not on last Mississippi River steamboat as it travels the his personal knowledge and observations on the public view. American heartland . Ndrrated by Johnny Cash . plantings patterned after those at the Philadelphia The Exhibit has a quarter-mile of rooftop 12 : 30 p.m. Carmichael Auditorium, History and Exposition of 1876. 8 p .m . Baird Auditorium, walkway which permits visitors to observe, Technology Building. FREE . Natural History Building. $3. * unobstructed by bars, the tigers and lions without entering the building. 22 FREE FIL 1 THEATRE : Th e Las t Boat HOIII£' . FREE FILM THEATRE: USArt; The Year They There are three animal "theaters," two for Repeat. See Julv 21 fo r detai ls. THUR . . Invented the United States; Now's th e Tim e. 12 :30 tigers, one for the lions. Mohini Rewa, the p.m. Carmichae Auditorium, History and Tech­ matriarch oftfte Zoo's white tlgers,-occupies NATIVE AMERICAN FILM/VIDEO SERIES: nology Building. See July 28 for program details. one theater, three two-year-old white tiger Works by, for and about Native Americans in the FREE. cubs occupy a second theater, and a pride of Northern Plains area. Sponsored by the Festival of African lions reside in the third. American Folklife. Ecology Theatre, Natural History NATIVE AMERICAN FIUv1 / VIDEO SERIES: The Lion and Tiger Exhibit was named for Building. FREE. 10-1:45; 3-4:30. Works by, for and about Native Americans in the Dr. Mann, who served as Zoo Director from 23 NATURAL HISTORY FILM: The Sea - explora­ Northwest Coast area. Sponsored by the Festival of 1925 to 1956. Dr. Mann's widow, Lucille tion of ocean plains and mountains with insights into American Folklife. Ecology Theater, Natural History Quarry Mann, attended the opening FRI. ocean ecology. The Science of the Sea - the rela­ Building. FREE. 10-1: 45; 3-4: 30. ceremonies in May. tionship between the ocean and the atmosphere in The Government Services Administration the water cycle. 12 noon. Baird Auditorium, Natural 30 NATURAL HISTORY FILM: Forbidden City. The recently named the Exhibit one ofthe 10 best History Museum. FREE . Imperial Citadel, home of Emperors of China in examples of government design in its Second FRI. Peking; now a museum of Chinese history and Biennial Design Awards Program. IllUSTRATED lECTURE: The 'New Path' and culture. 12 noon. Baird Auditorium, Natural History American Architectural Theory of the 1960's. Julie Museum. FREE. Wortman, NCFA pre-doctoral Fellow from the Lion & Tiger Films University of Michigan, will discuss the New Path, ILLUSTRATED LECTURE: Katherine Dreier and the short-lived journal of the Association for the the Societe. Speaker Ruth Bohan, NCFA pre­ Set for New Exhibit Advancement of the Cause of Truth in Art, and its doctoral Fellow from the University of Maryland, Two spectacular color films about large philosophies of architectural perfection. 12:30 p.m. will discuss Dreier, one of the founders, President cats have been produced by the Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts. FREE. and chief spokesman for the Societe Anonyme - Film Unit for the new lion and tiger display founded in 1920 and dedicated to the promotion of at the National Zoo. 27 NMHT TUESDAY FILMS: Last Wheel Works; and international modern art in America between the "The Big Cats and How They Came to Be" Sawyer and His Mill. 1 p.m. Carmichael Audi­ two world wars. 12: 30 p.m. National Collection of is an animated IO-minute film produced as a ruES torium, History and Technology Building. FREE. Fine Arts. FREE. joint venture with the Polish government. The 35-mm film traces the evolution of the large carnivores from the extinct sabre-tooth tiger to the diversity of present-day cats. Tours WEST COURT FACILITIES "Our Polish animator-artist, Witold Giersz, is an absolute genius," said Karen Natural History Building Loveland, director of the motion picture unit. Supported by excess foreign currencies A skylit cafeteria with hanging gardens and a stone wall allotted to the Smithsonian. she negotiated Museum of History and Technology waterfall is now open in the Museum of Natural History the production with Film Polski. Monday through Friday - Museum guides are stationed for public dining, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a through the Museum to provide information on the exhibits "The musical score is by a very talented week. Other facilities are scheduled to open later in the and answer questions. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Polish composer and it was performed by the summer and fall - a Museum Shop with fresh flowers, Polish equivalent of our National Symphony Saturday and Sunday - Highlight tours at 11 :30 a.m. and herbs and Chinese vegetable seeds among the many Orchestra," Loveland said. 1:30 p.m. items for sale; Naturalists Center where amateur Dr. John Seidensticker, the mammalogis,t naturalists can see and handle specimens of all kinds; who was first director of the Institution's Quilts Collection. By advance appointment only. 11:15 a.m. and classrooms. The shop at the Constitution Avenue study of tiger and leopard ecology in Nepal, Tuesdays. Call 381-5121 or write Division of Textiles, Smith­ entrance will be closed and used as a public lounge when prepared the script based largely on his field sonian Institution. the new shop is opened. experience in radio-tracking Bengal tigers. HIRSHHORN CAFE: A selection of picnic box lunches The storyboard layout is by Ben Lawless, National Air and Space Museum are sold in the fountain court, Hirshhom Museum and Volunteers are stationed in the galleries for information on the M HT assistant director for exhibits. It was re­ Sculpture Garden. Seven days a week. Beverages are viewed by Zoo Director Dr. Theodore Reed exhibits. available. Some tables and chairs. and Judith White, chief of education and Freer Gallery of Art information at the Zoo. Tours on a limited basis by special arrangement. Call 381- CAFETERIA AND SNACK BAR: Museum of History The second film, "Tiger," also was written 5344 . and Technology. Open seven days a week. Cafeteria - by Dr. Seidensticker. Smithsonian Secretary 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Snack Bar - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ripley, at the request of producer Loveland, Arts and Industries Building shot some of the footage during his February Docents, in costumes of the period, provide information on RESTAURANT: Fine Arts and Portrait Gallery Build­ visit to the tiger project in Nepal. The nine­ the 1876 exhibit. ing. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday; 11 a.m. minute color film was edited by John Hiller to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. and Loveland. TOURS FOR THE HANDICAPPED Since the end of June, both films have Available in the Hirshhorn Museum, Museum of Natural NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM: Cafeteria been shown continuously during the Zoo's History, Museum of History and Technology, National Air open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week. visiting hours. and Space Museum, by appointment. Page 6 THE SMITHSONIAN TORCH r r July 1976 v CAL Turns IJunk' Into History Indian Names

By Linda St. Thomas objects. A machine, similar to those used for Booklet Goes watches and jewelry, may be used for sturdy "Preserving the Past is No Easy Matter," artifacts, but delicately-sprayed grit, Fast, SI Finds say the cards posted around the chemicals or vacuum may also be used. Conservation-Analytical Laboratory in the Sometimes curators are faced with the "In the Chiefs Lodge," "The Coming New basement of the Museum of History and problem of an object which arrives "too Moon" or "She Guards the Corn," may Technology. clean." Mrs. Garbin described a coin sent in sound like unlikely names for a child but they One visit to the lab is enough to deter­ by an archeologist. could be the vanguard of a new trend. mine that conservation is a lot more than "Apparently, the coin had been left in a Just ask Margaret Ellis, office manager of just cleaning off the dust and dirt of a few cleaning solution too long and the metal the Smithsonian Reception Center or Ruth centuries. began to corrode," she said. "Sometimes, in Selig, technical information specialist in the The Smithsonian's 19 conservators must their zeal to find out what they have, Anthropology Department, who have been employ a variety of skills, including archeologists look at objects as pieces of trying to cope with the 2,767 requests about photography, chemical analysis, computer information rather than artifacts to be American Indian names that have poured operation and just plain detective work to preserved. " into the Smithsonian. analyze and restore the treasures they The delicate, time-consuming job of It all started with a small article in the May receive. restoril1g paintings and sculptures is done by issue of Women's Day magazine. Anyone The Laboratory, which supports muse­ Tony Konrad, who was working on a paint­ interested in an Indian name for a new baby, um CU(lltorS. in authenticity studies as ing taken from the side of a 1679 harpsichord. said the article, should write to the Smithso­ well as preservation and restor-ation of their He used solution to clean the painting and nian Institution for a free pamphlet, Indian collections, has recently been doubled in size then began to chip away several old coats of Names Jor Popular Use. and opened last month to SI employees for paint on the back to expose the original red The response brought in so much mail that tours of the facility. pigment. two SI information volunteers, Donna In the general conservation area, staff In the furniture department, Conservator Rohrer and Sherri James, organized 50 receives everything from battered furniture Walter Angst sat at an old European work­ members of Girl Scout Troop 461 and to old posters. Working at desk-and-bench bench restoring furniture and replacing Brownie Troop 410 to donate their time and units with special exhaust fans and hoods, chipped or broken parts. se rvice to the Smithsonian by addressing and the conservators must first decide what Faced with restoring a Victorian wall stuffing envelopes during troop meetings. treatments will restore an object without piece, an eagle holding the American flag, he The pamphlet includes the Indian names damaging it. went right to the library. used by 19 tribes and camps in the United A computer system, installed two years "You have to be a detective in this States, and their English translations. It had ago, stores information on past restorations business," he said . "When I saw the old to be reprinted quickly for the mass mailing. and quickly provides a history of treatments sketches of these artifacts, I found that this "This pamphlet was developed by the on similar objects. one was arranged in a different manner. I Conservator Tony Konrad uses a surgeon's Bureau of American Ethnology in 1926 to "But that doesn't always work," said checked with the curator and we decided to style microscope with camera attached as he answer numerous requests for Indian Conservator Supervisor Eleanor McMillan. reposition the eagle." chips away old layers of paint and restores a translations of English expressions," said "Many objects require special treatments In the analytic section of the lab, seven 1679 painting. Mrs. Selig. "I t provides a few translations that have never been done here before." people use x-ray machines, microscopes and and explains that many Indian languages Miss McMillan was recently working to thermoluminescence techniques, among Lab Chief Robert E. Organ has delivered differ so much from English in sound, restore a 1905 map of the southwestern others, to discover important facts about the 80 lectures on museum conservation in grammar and semantics that it is difficult to United States for the classroom in "A Nation objects. recent years. The lectures, illustrating a provide even rough translations." of Nations." When finished, the analytic team is often variety of conservation procedures, have But the rough translations were enough Arriving in the lab torn and stained, the able to provide a curator with data relating been videotaped and are available to SI staff for the thousands of people requesting the map had to be stripped of old tape, cleaned to identity, age, authenticity and sometimes and the pUblic. pamphlet. with special rubber crumbs, and rebacked. the place of origin of the object. Tourists may not be able to see this lab or Most received their brochures within three "In restoring or stabilizing the objects, we Jacqueline S. Olin, research chemist, is the delicate processes of restoration and weeks. But there are always those who can't try not to add new materials," said Mary Lou working with scientists at Brookhaven preservation that occur here. But without the wait. One woman called the Anthropology Garbin, a conservator of objects. "If parts National Laboratory's atomic reactor sec­ work of the Conservation-Analytical Department from California and announced are missing, we'll replace them, but we tion and other government facilities to find Laboratory staff. there probably wouldn't be thllt her baby was due the next day. She had usually work with the curator." efficient methods, other than carbon-dating, much to see in the exhibit halls of the not yet chosen a name, and she needed a There are different techniques for cleaning for determining the age of an object. Smithsonian muse um s. brochure immediately. 51 Press Revamping To Meet New Challenges By Johnnie Douthis which are the results of scholarly research in new sales representative to focus special various Smithsonian bureaus. It also does efforts on Washington area bookstores. The Smithsonian Institution Press hr·s books, pamphlets and exhibit catalogues for However." he added, "overall SI P plans are been undergoing a thorough revamping museums, galleries and SITES; information aimed at developing the Press' own sales and since Edward F. Ri vi nus was appointed brochures for the Office of Public Affairs distribution capability to where an outside acting director last September. and the Visitor Information Center; floor representative will become supplemental to It has been reorganized into four divisions, plans for museums and galleries; posters, our own efforts." new people have been added to the staff, invitation forms and letterheads, and the Among other major changes. SIP has been assignments have been changed, and plans Smithsonian Year. reorganized into four functional divisions. are underway for the Press to move into A & The press also publishes privately funded The Series and non-Series publication sec­ I this summer. trade or professional books, which Mr. tions each with full editorial, design and These changes have been instituted by Rivinus described as the smallest in terms of production components; a management sec­ Mr. Rivinus, a former Foreign Service officer production, but the most demanding. Most tion including the director, deputy director, who joined the Smithsonian following his of these publications are now written by and administrative officer and secretarial retirement from the State Department in Smithsonian staff, however, as the Press support; and a distribution section, which 1970. Before moving to the Press, he served staff increases, M r. Ri vinus hopes to increase has assumed full responsibility for as special assistant to the Assistant Secretary the number of "outside" authors whose marketing, promotion, inventory control for Public Service. books will be published by the Press. and order fulfillment. Appointed deputy director of the Press George Braziller Inc. has been the ex­ To keep prospective customers aware of was Felix C. Lowe, who came here after clusive distributor of privately funded SI available publications, the SI P has given first seven years as sales manager for the books for the past four years. But at the end priority to a new and revised catalogue of Brookings Institution. Before that he was of June the Sl Press formally joined the Press books, which will be published before market director for Entelek, Inc., and was Columbia University Press Consortium, a the end of May. with the MacMillan Company. sales organization representing university The catalogue, which describes eight new The SI Press produces the federally and university type . presses. publications and a backlist of about 60 funded Smithsonian Series publications, Mr. Ri vi nus said, "The Press is urging the oks, will be available on request from the SIP or from the museum shops. By using selected mailing lists, Mr. Rivinus expects to increase the direct mail sales of Press publications to where this activity will make up 65 percent of total sales. In carrying out efforts to increase the efficiency and output of the Press, a number of new people have joined the staff, and MINIA TURES - This Joseph Dunkerly several assignments have been changed. Jan miniature of Elizabeth Sheppard Morris is Hahn is now administrative officer; Larry one of 125 miniature portraits exhibited at Long, the new production manager; John the National Collection of Fine Arts through Harris, production assistant and Lorraine January, 1977. Most never have been shown Rivard is design assistant. New editors added publicly and some have been acquired only to the staff are Ruth Spiegel, Barbara Spann recently from descendants of their original and Jerry Tyson. owners. The name "miniature" comes not Four li ve ly new S I P publications are now necessarily from their size but from il­ available: "Blue Mystery, The Story of the lustrations on medieval manuscripts which Hope Diamond" by Susanne Patch; were known as miniatures because ofthe ink, "Washington Plans and Realities," by Dr. minimum, that was used. Usually small Wilcomb Washburn; "America as Art," by enough to be held in the hand, the miniature Dr. Joshua C. Taylor and "The Golden was created as a symbol of a personal bond Door: The Artist As Immigrant," by Cynthia - love, friendship or honor - between the Volunteers Jennie Clyde Hollis (left) and Roberta Downes, better known to coworkers as McCabe. subject of the miniature and its owner. It first "Bonnie and Clyde," are presented copies of Secretary Ripley's book, "The Sacred Grove," The Press is looking forward to publica­ became popular during the Renaissance by Edward F. Rivinus, acting director of the Press, in appreciation for their work on updating tion of "The Zoo Book," which will offer a when tiny likenesses were worn as pieces of the Press's list of private trade books. Said Mr. Rivinus, "Thanks to your devoted efforts, the colorful and attractively illustrated account jewelry in a ring, clasp, pendant or brooch. catalogue will be coming off the press shortly, and we are certainly looking forward to of zoo activities in general, focusing on Later, in America, it became an accessory for increased sales as a result." Mrs. Hollis and Mrs. Downes have worked as a volunteer team examples at the National Zoo. It will be wall or table-top rather than a personal with the Smithsonian for five years. available this summer. ornament. July 1976 THE SMITHSONIAN TORCH Page 7 Newsmakers SI Praised For Hiring Vets; 'Federal City' Exhibit Cited By Johnnie Douthis

Secretary Ripley recently received a lett~r John R. Kinard, director of the Anacostia of commendation for the Smithsonian from Museum; Zora Felton; and Charles the American Legion praising our practice of Mickens, Administrator at the Anacostia hiring veterans. Of the new persons hired Exhibits Center delivered speeches to the between July and December, 1975, at SI and first Annual National Black History the National Gallery of Art, 41 percent were Museums Seminar, hosted by the Anacostia veterans. Museum. "The Federal City: Plans and Realities" Paul Perrot, assistant secretary for exhibit in the Castle has been awarded the Museum Programs; James Lyons, deputy "outstanding Bicentennial planners" award director in the Office of Membership by the National Capital Area Chapter of the Development; and Jeffrey Stann, associate American Institute of Planners. The exhibit development officer also participated in the was coordinated by Wilcomb E. Washburn, seminar. director of the Office of American Studies. Dr. Peter Bermingham, NCFA's curator Secretary Ripley received the Swan of education, was one of the jurors for the Award in Nashville, Tenn., June 12 for National Education Association's Bicenten­ outstanding service in the arts. Given by the nial art show in Washington. Swan Ball Committee, the silver sculpture Janet Flint, NCFA's curator of prints and was presented at their annual benefit ball. drawings, was one of the jurors deciding on Dr. Clyde F. E. Roper, curator, Research the art works to be purchased, with a grant Department, Invertebrate Zoology, co­ from the National Endowment for the Arts, authored a paper which appeared in the by the Montgomery County Art Center. March 12 Science magazine. It describes Richard H. Howland, special assistant to how squids emit a ventrally directed the Secretary; Abram Lerner, director of the downward glow of light which he believes Hirshhorn; and Wilton S. Dillon, director of NEW ACQUISITION - Brooke Hindle, Director of the National Museum of History and may well serve to conceal them from Symposia and Seminars have been ap­ Technology, shows the recently acquired campstool used by George Washington to Ann predators when they are swimming in the pointed to membership on the board of McClellan, Special Assistant for Product Development, and T. Ames Wheeler, Treasurer. open ocean. advisors of the Exhibition of African Con­ The funds for purchasing the campstool were generated largely by the Smithsonian Product Four Museum of Natural History temporary Art which will open at Howard Development program. archeologists are going to the field for University next April. summer work. Dr. Gus Van Beekhasalready Bela Demeter, has recently been elected to left for his seventh year of study at Tell a two-year term as president of the American Benefit Auction Earns $100,000 Jemmeh, Israel; Dr. Dennis Stanford is Association of Zoo Keepers. excavating a Paleo-Indian Mammoth Kill site in Colorado that he hopes may yield Karen Loveland, director of Exhibit Cen­ For Cooper-Hewitt Museum some of the earliest evidence of man in tral's Motion Picture Unit, has been awarded America; Dr. William Fitzhugh is con­ a leave of absence for a two-month tion which went for $1,000, and a George II tinuing his archeological work off the coast professional internship in motion picture The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt walnut mirror which sold for $950. of Labrador, and Dr. William Trousdale is arts at Universal Studios beginning August Museum of Decorative Arts and Design All of the articles sold at the auction, slated to leave this month for continuing I. She will assist in the production of a n ~ w realized more than $100,000 at its third which was conducted by the staff of Sot he by archeological work in the Sistan desert area documentary drama series for network annual benefit auction May 25 in the garden Park Bernet, were donated for that purpose; of southwestern Afghanistan. television, "Captains and Kings. " of the Carnegie Mansion in New York. nothing from the collections was offered, Dr. Henry W. Setzer, curator, Vertebrate John G. Gregory, assistant director of the The fund s, said Director Lisa Taylor, will Mrs. Taylor noted. Zoology, received a special recognition SI Astrophysica l Observatory, was awarded provide "the fin al money needed to complete But, she added, "our appeal for donated award for outstanding service. Prese nted by a Sustained Superior Performance Award the Carnegie Mansion renovation" for the objects resulted in our acquiring some ex­ Dr. Porter Kier,directorofMNH, the award by Assistant Secretary for ScienGe David Q.Qening of the Smithsonian's newest major c~llent _oJ:!jects j or the _ ermanent collec­ was given for Mr. Setzer's supervision of the Challinor. museum on October 7. tions," including a child's chair and an art planning of the Museum's new osteo-prep Despite weather chilly enough to require nouveau tea caddy. laboratory building that opened recently in Fred L. Whipple, former director of SAO topcoats, more than 1,200 persons gathered Mrs. Taylor explained that all items the east CQurt. and now senior staff scientist, was cited for in a large tent set up in the Carnegie garden donated for the auction were screened by a Silvio Bedini, deputy director of M HT, 21 years of service with SAO. And Bureau for the auction, which saw nearly all 362 committee of antiquarians and dealers in fine was interviewed recently by WAMU-FM on Director Awards for contributions to science items donated for the event sold. objects and "if the donated object was found the "Columbus and His Time" exhibit, and· were given to Luigi Jacchi, Cecilia Payne­ Bringing the best prices were a Will Barnet to be of museum quality, we asked the by National Public Radio on science in Gaposchkin, both scientists at SAO. oil and watercolor of a nude in a tree, which donors for permission to hold the object for America. Eileen Ritter, museum shop designer, went for $1,800, a pair of Louis XV the collections." Robert P. Multhauf, former director of received an SI award June 10 for her work on armchairs which went for $1,200, an The Cooper-Hewitt collection, one of the M HT and presently Senior Scientific the A& I Museum Shop. Miss Ritter, who Aubrey Beardsley design for a book illustra- world's distinguished groups of drawings Scholar, Department of Science and developed the design and supervised con­ and prints, textiles, wallpaper and decorative Technology, has been selected by the Iowa struction of the I 876-style shop, was cited for objects, was turned over to the Smithsonian State University Alumni Asso'ciation contributing her "good taste, imagination SI 'Actors' Star in 1968. Honors and Awards Committee to receive and knowledge of architecture to the making The Carnegie property, home of in­ the 1976 Distinguished Achievement Cita­ of a museum shop now praised by many ... dustrialist and philanthropist Andrew tion in recogmtlOn of outstanding on time and at great savings to the Institu­ In Film of '1876' Carnegie, was given to the Smithsonian in professional achievement. tion." "Celebrating a Century: The Philadelphia 1972 as a permanent home for the Cooper­ Exposition," a half-hour documentary film Hewitt Museum, and is being renovated to New AppOintments marking the Bicentennial, has been produc­ house the collections. ed by the Office of Exhibits Central using a cast of over 250 Smithsonian staff members, Correll Named To Science including Secretary Ripley in 1876 period dress. The film is intended for release on national Post At Bay Center television, for school circulation, and exhibit Dr. David L. Correll has been named will assist the Zoo's veterinary staff in clinical abroad, according to Director Karen Associate Director for Scientific Programs medicine and other programs. Loveland, chief of the Exhibits Central Film at the Chesapeake Bay Center for En­ Alastair G. W. Cameron, associate direc­ Unit. vironmental Studies. He will be responsible tor'for Planetary Sciences at the Center for She said the writer and producer of the for the planning, supervision and coordina­ Astrophysics, and .professor of Astronomy motion picture, Ben Lawless, sought to tion of scientific programs and will supervise at Harvard University, has been named portray with complete historical accuracy the compilation and storage of all research chairman of the Harvard Department of the events surrounding the opening of the data acquired in the Rhode River ecosystem Astronomy. He was also elected to Philadelphia Centennial Exposition by study. membership in the National Academy of President Ulysses s. Grant on May 10,1876. Barbara McCoy, first woman in the Sciences. Involved in the extensive research that "trades" at SI, received a certificate of James Moran of the Radio Astronomy went into the production were M HT Direc­ training from Employee Counseling and Division at CFA received the Naval tor Brooke Hindle, Deputy Director Silvio Development Officer James Pearson at the Research Laboratory's Research Publica­ Bedini, and Curators Robert Vogel and National Zoo. A painter-helper at the Zoo, tion Award for a recent paper. Robert Post. she served on the janitorial force for one year A. Edward Lilley, Associate Director for The 28Y2-minute color film was shot en­ before enrolling in the three month training Radio Astronomy at CF A has been named tirely on location at the Smithsonian. Many program. Corresponding Member of the International scenes featured the new Centennial exhibit in Academy of Astronautics. Suzanne Kennedy is the second the reopened A&I Building as background. Also at CFA, John B. Wood was awarded veterinarian selected for the internship and The documentary is narrated by James the National Academy of Science J. Whitmore. Composer Oscar Brand wrote training pro at the National She U Lawrence Smith Medal for his "highly in­ the original musical score that was V fluential works over the past decade." Owen orchestrated in an arrangement by Ron Gingerich was awarded the American Frangipane. The U. S. Marine Band plays Philosophical Society'S John F. Lewis Prize the authentic musical score just as it was for his paper presented at the Copernicus performed at the Centennial ceremonies. Symposium. Color transparencies of individual cast Chester Henderson has joined the staff of members will also be available, according to the Office of Equal Opportunity as Upward Loveland. Mobility Coordinator. He will advise SI David Vassar was assistant producer and New Yo rA" Po .

Enjoy Museum By Linda St. Thomas The National Air and Space Museum is Anyone who has ever moved can sym­ developing programs which will make ex­ pathize with the work crews who spent one hibits meaningful and insure accessibility to full year placing .air- and spacecraft in the handicapped individuals. Groups such as the new National Air and Space Museum. National Federation of the Blind, the On June I, 1975, the first artifact, a National Association of the Deaf, and the Douglas World Cruiser, was moved into the National Association of the Physically Han­ building through a specially built 30- by 20- dicapped have helped to plan the programs. foot door. One year later to the day, the final Although not all the programs are in full large artifact, a V-2 rocket, was put into operation for NASM's opening, every effort place and the cranes were moved out. has been made to make the building barrier­ free. NASM Docents Ready To Fly "The installation of the Skylab Orbital Wheelchairs will be available on request, Workshop in the Space Hall was one of our and for those people with limited head most dramatic moments," recalled Walter Boyne, curator of Aeronautics. movement, specially designed clamp-on By Anna Reed Both programs have been so well received mirrors for wheelchairs will be available on that John Whitelaw, NASM executive of­ The skylab arrived in three segments from request. Her interest in the N AS M docent program ficer, encouraged the women to share what Huntsville, Ala., via an inland waterway For deaf visitors, the Museum is produc­ and her desire to learn more about flight will they had originated with museum officers barge. As a crowd of NASM staffers looked ing written scripts or abstracts of major result in at least one woman getting a set of attending the recent American Association on, the Skylab's top two segments were audiovisual presentations. These written wings as well as a diploma for her recent of Museums convention in Washington. joined and lifted by a crane so that the materials may have photographic margin graduation from the Museum's docent Docents and rovers, selected by interview bottom section could slide underneath. annotations as needed. program. from several hundred applications, have The 52-foot spacecraft cleared the ceiling Interpreters may be provided for major When she solos, Jane Ward will join the many different interests in air and space. by a predicted one-quarter inch, but as Space films and lectures, and NASM has a special many male, and at least a dozen female Many have spouses who are officials at Hall Curator WaIter Flint recalled, "We teletype machine to permit tour monitors docents, who already hold licenses. NASA, FAA, and in the military. Some are sweated every centimeter of that." and other personnel to communicate by Mrs. Ward and 222 other docents and involved in the air or space program, but give The installation ofthe Saturn V F-I engine telephone with deaf visitors who have similar rovers at NASM will have completed an their evenings to the museum. Several are was not so breathtaking to watch, but neither teletype equipment. orientation session which met an average of employed by airlines, including one pilot did it snap in place. Because the weight is Cassette tours of a limited number of one day a week for five-and-a-half months. who flies regularly into Washington, and concentrated at one end of the engine, it was galleries will be available to blind visitors, Twenty-three docents came to the facility devotes one day a week to volunteer at difficult to balance. So it was inverted and and these will supplement the audio portions from the old NASM quarters, to join new NASM. lifted to the second floor where it was of audiovisual presentations in the galleries. recruits in the recently concluded orientatio'n R. Lynn Bondurant, Jr., education officer attached to a special fitting in the Apollo to Booklets of raised line drawings of selected program tracing Smithsonian involvement for NASM's Presentation and Education the Moon Gallery. exhibits will be loaned along with the in aero- and astronautics from the late 19th Division, says that docents will not give tours "The hanging aircraft presented a different cassette tours in the Museum. century to the present. but will act as rovers until fall when the problem," said Mr. Boyne. "All aircraft have Large print, braille and cassette versions The docent program has inspired many number of requests for school tours in­ certain strong points from which they may be of the Museum brochure, including raised volunteers to make significant contributions creases. The function of a rover is to suspended and, in turn, our steel trusses in line maps of the Museum, will be available to the quality of tours they will conduct. humanize the museum by providing help and the ceiling have designated hanging points. for distribution. Under the leadership of Carol James, information whenever it is needed. "The trick is to match the hanging points NASM guides will provide special tours docents who conducted tours in the old Air When the tours start in the fall, each and end up with an aircraft facing the right for the handicapped, on a group or in­ and Space Museum designed lesson plans for docent will be assigned a particular area of direction, at the proper angle and at the dividual basis. Sign language tours will be the new docent class. the museum he or she has been studying in correct distance from the floor." offered for the deaf and "explorer kits" of To make the tours more interesting to the detail. Volunteering a half-day per week, a The age of an aircraft such as the Kitty touchable items will be available for blind public, veteran docents encouraged reliance docent can expect to give as many as two visitors. Hawk Flyer caused still other complications. on NASM's library as a source for human one- to one-and-a-half-hour tours in "his" or "Even though the Flyer groaned a bit, it interest stories about the artifacts on display. "her" area. ~aed out to be YtN'Y-8ftINI¥." Mr. Boyne HAPPY B-DA Y AMERICA In April 1975, Mary Lou Luff and Susan Nancy Murphy, education specialist and said. Check your cash register receipt Pi erce ori ginated a program designed fo r coord inator fo r the docent program, In managing the move ment of all aircraft from the new Museum of Natural handicapped visitors. Mrs. Luff enrolled in a looked for ma ny qualities during docent and spacecraft, Mr. Boyne worked with a History West Court staff dining room. six-month sign la nguage class and be­ se lec ti on interviews. Emphasizing that an team of N AS M staffers led by E. J . Thomas, came known as the "sign la nguage docent." interest in air and space was an important Items are listed in blue, on white Ed Chalkley, and Al Bachmeier, along with The women have also developed tactile qua li fication, she sa id that the docent appli­ Frank Murray and his staffs from C. W. paper, of course, and topped off with a aircraft models for use by blind museum ca nt had to agree to give one year to the Young Co. and United Rigging Co. big red "Happy Birthday America." vi sitors. program before being considered. "Everyo ne was so caught up in the museum and its artifacts that we ended up with riggers and crane operators concerned about the design of galleries," recalled Mr. Library Offers Vast Collection Boyne. "There was even a touch of sadness when the last crane pulled out of NASM." By Kathryn Lindeman documents on manned space flight, space a "kite-winged boat for skimming over the books, and related scientific works released sea." Far more extensive than the collection by the National Aeronautics and Space On the subject of kites, Kipling added, " .. . New Research Lab housed in the Arts and Industries Building, Administration from the Bellcom Technical I have had rather a lengthy tho amateur the new National Air and Space Museum Library. experience in India where it is the national To Open at NASM Library is a treasure trove of old and new Aeronautics enthusiast Mrs. Gardner H. sport in the back of the country I hail from." volumes and documents about aviation and Fiske recently gave the library a rare Italian Kipling even predicted that by the year The Smithsonian's newest research facility spaceflight. book of color prints by Leopoldo Galluzzo. 2000 large airships would be traveling is buried deep within NASM's massive Directed by Bureau Librarian Catherine Published in 1836, the prints illustrate a between America and Europe. marble and glass walls in modest offices and D. Scott, the collection moved last July to its fantasy about the first excursion to the The Ii brary has one of the 150 copies laboratories situated next to the library at home in the new building, where it was moon. printed of Amelia Earhart's book 20 Hours. the southwest corner of the third floor. combined with portions of the collection The Library's rare book room is named for 40 Minutes: Our Flight in the Friendship. It is the Center for Earth and Planetary which had been stored in Washington and Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, oneofthe The NASM copy is autographed, and press­ Studies, directed by an American of Egyp­ Alexandria warehouses. first naval pilots of World War I, who later ed inside the front cover is the small flag she tian descent, Dr. Farouk EI-Baz, a lunar The NASM Library, a unit of Smithso­ became Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific carried with her in 1928 when she became the geologist long associated with studies of the nian Institution Libraries directed by Russell Fleet. first woman to fly across the Atlantic. lunar environment for the Apollo program. Shank, evolved from the Historical Research The oldest volume in the Ramsey room, An autographed copy of Charles The Center's approach is consistent with Center of the Museum. Organized formally published in London in 1683, is A Modest Lindbergh's We is one of the first 100 the Smithsonian's 130-year tradition of as a library in 1972, the collection had Vindication of the Hermite of the Sounding printed. collection-based research, for its basic previously consisted largely of historical Island. a parody on "how the Hermite made These are only a few of the rare items in the material is one of the world's most complete books and journals donated by the Institute him an engine and flew to Lisbonia in the library's total collection of 22,000 books, collections of photographs of the Moon of Aeronautical Sciences. Realm of Porto Gallia." 4,600 bound periodicals, and 500,000 taken by unmanned probes and by Apollo In August of 1975, one month after Early publications on ballooning include a technical reports. The collection is astronauts. moving into the new building, and pulled 1784 first edition by Vincenzo Lunardi about augmented by gifts from individuals and The Center has bulging files of together and inventoried for the first time, the first aerial voyage in England, and institutions, as well as by budgeted ac­ photographs of the Earth shot from orbit, the NASM Library opened to public and another by David Bourgeois concerning quisitions. and is rapidly assembling new files of Mars staff. Pitatre de Rosier, the first human to ascend The library houses more than just print and Mercury photographs. Many unique items from the warehouses in free flight. Published in 1784, the book material. Its shelves contain more than 1,000 Dr. EI-Baz and a global team of 34 came to light. One such find was a 1,500- contains De Rosier's autograph, making it archival motion pictures as well as 800 audio scientists continue to study color and infra­ piece aeronautical sheet music collection of even more valuable. tapes, including one of Anne Morrow red photographs, motion picture film, and Bella C. Landauer containing such favorites Also in the collection is a very rare book by Lindbergh reading from her book, North to data from the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project of as Come With Me. Josephine. in My Flying Edmond C. Genet, Memoirs on the Upward the Orient. and Colonel Lindbergh reading last year. Machine. and her collection of children's Forces of Fluids, the first book published in from The Spirit of St. Louis. The scientists so far have confirmed the books, including an original Tom Swift this country on a technical aeronautical The Museum's historical archives con­ existence of mysterious internal or subsur­ series and Peter Parley's early children's subject. The 1825 volume includes an outline taining 19 ,000 photographic and face ocean waves off the Spanish Coast near books. for the first aeronautical patent registered in biographical files, are another part of the Gibralter; have gained new understanding of The Landauer collection is only a small the United States. library's collection. More than 600,000 fault lines which likely will be useful in part of the important historical collection An Eccentric Excursion to the Chinese black-and-white photographs and drawings predicting earthquakes, and have discovered donated by the Institute when it merged with Empire, published in 1843, and housed in the depict all aspects of aviation and patterns in the Earth's desert sands which the American Rocket Society to become the Ramsey Room, is an unusual folding game astronautical history. have striking similarity to patterns on Mars. American Institute of Aeronautics and board which uses walking, steam, flight, and Microfilm is another part of the collection. NASA's Atlas of the Moon made exten­ Astronautics. rail, as methods to proceed through the German and Japanese documents captured sive use of the Center's collection of William A. M. Burden donated his collec­ game. during World War II, and history record photographs of the lunar surface. Dr. EI-Baz tion on early Russian rockets, as well as a As librarians catalogued the collection, cards of U. S. military aircraft, mostly from has been helping select features to be named group of first editions on early ballooning. they discovered a letter from Rudyard Kipl­ World War II, which no longer appear on on the Moon as a member of a special task Another significant donation was the ing about kites and air flight, in which he Government rolls, are just two kinds of group of the International Astronomical collection of systems engineering support describes an imaginary airship in the form of microfilm records owned by the library. Union.