STRI Offers Rare Research Opportunities by Edward H. Kobn STRI also operates a mainland laboratory in The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is Ancon, near Panama City, which includes seminar a research organization devoted to the study and halls, research labs and one of the world's finest tropi­ support of tropical biology, education and conser­ cal biology libraries. vation. Its research focuses broadly on the evolu­ Plans are being developed to construct a bio­ tion of patterns of behavior and ecological adapta­ communications laboratory to house a growing tions. The Tropics offer the richest natural laboratory number of projects studying the role of all forms of for these purposes and Panama further offers its communication-audio, ultrasonic, visual, olfactory unique zoogeographic characteristics-a bridge to -in the relationships between environment and be­ terrestrial life forms of two continents and a bar­ havior. rier to marine life of two oceans. Twenty students under the Organization of Within the span of a few hours, field studies in Tropical Studies will study at the marine labora­ Panama can be conducted on the biota of an extra­ tories for six weeks this Summer. The Tropical Re­ ordinary array of differing habitats-rain forest, search Institute's staff, fellows and interns also montane cloud forest, savannah, mixed grassland conduct re.search in other parts of Central and South and second growth, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans America, the Pacific, Asia and Africa where com­ and the great fresh water body of Gatun Lake, a parative studies are clarifying the distinctive bio­ multitude of living coral reefs, sandy bottoms, Cryptic insects photographed by STRI entomologist logical role of the Tropics. rocky shores, great untouched stands of mangrove Michael Robinson. The professional staff, directed by Dr. Martin H. swamp, estuaries, the offshore islands of San BIas Moynihan, includes Dr. Robert L. Dressler, Dr. and Las Perlas, and still further habitats. Galeta Island and Fort Amador respectively. The Peter Glynn, Dr. A. Stanley Rand, Dr. Michael H. The Institute operates Barro Colorado Island, laboratories provide unique opportunities for Robinson, Dr. Ira Rubinoff, Roberta Rubinoff, and which w,as set aside for science in 1923 as a 55 simultaneous research in two oceans separated by Dr. Neal G. Smith. Executive Director is Edward square mile tropical forest research preserve in approximately 5,000,000 years and only 50 miles. H . Kohn. In th·e past year STRI has received re­ Gatun Lake at the center of the Panama Canal The Galeta Laboratory, sitting on a living coral search visitors, some remaining many months, from Zone. The island, with a very rich fauna including reef, pl ayed an unwilling host in December to an fifty un iversities around the world. at least 465 species of land vertebrates, provides oil tanker which sank several miles offshore, dis­ The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute pro­ laboratory ,and living quarters for use by scientists gorging one million gallons of oil. Quick action vides a growing base of operations and an intel­ and students. saved the laboratory from more major damage. The lectual center for exploring the frontiers of biology STRI is also making increasing contributions in lab, with several years of studies of the area's biota, across the varied land and sea scapes of the Tropical the study of marine environments. Two marine is in position to conduct research on the biological world. biology laboratories have been developed on the effects of this increasingly prevalent insult to the Caribbean and Pacific sides of the isthmus at environment. (See picture story on page 3.)

NC-4 Log Presented to 51, o THE SMITHSONIAN Chronicles Historic Flight

Fifty years ,after a small, matter-of­ Too rough to attempt getaw.ay .... May fact New Englander displayed both bril­ 23 Too rough again. Weather not very liance as a navigator and more than his good." TORCH share of courage in commanding the first The log, photos, souvenirs and tapes Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. No.5, May, 1969 plane ever to cross the Atlantic, his of voices of the past were stored in thumb-marked, carefully written log of Steirman's files. the flight has come unexpectedly to light. "Read told me that I'd know the The small historic volume-the log proper moment to give the log to the i"'!"...-..----...... ,'CT"-n. :-:=e:--XT7~-~-::::.was presen e 0 t e Gha-DJ ian to Chair Ma 14-16 Smlt soman an IS IS It ,~ ' he Smithsonian during commemorative cer­ said. emonies on the Mall on May 8. Steirman decided to write Triumph by Symposium on Man, Beast Ten years ago Rear Admiral A. C. chance. He had gone to the library to Read, USN (ret) , took the log from his look up "The Lost Battalion" and in so Dr. Alex Kwapong, vice-chancellor of and has served as vlsltmg professor of desk drawer and gave it to Hy Steirman, doing came upon the front page of The the University of Ghana and a leading classics at Princeton University. a young free lance writer researching a New York Times of May 28, 191 1 9 African intellectual with close links to book on the NC-4 and its pioneering headlining the first successful flight Born in 1927 at Akrapong in the academic and scientific communities transatlantic journey in 1919-a feat across the Atlantic. Akwapim region of Ghana, Dr. Kwa­ throughout the world, will chair the comparable in its way and its day to a He considered himself a flying buff, pong was educated at a local Presby­ having served as flight lieutenant in the three-day symposium, "M,an and Beast: terian school, later majoring in Greek flight to the moon in the present era. Comparative Social Behavior," May 14- "Keep it," Read said, "and give it to Royal Canadian Air Force in World and Latin at Achimota College near War II, but he had never heard of the 16 in the Departmental Auditorium. Accra. the Smithsonian some day. You'll be Dr. Kwapong has been a frequent able to judge the proper moment." NC-4. He found three paragraphs in the At King's College, Cambridge Uni­ World Almanac and a few lines on visitor to the United States in recent versity, pe won a prize as best scholar The words were prophetic. And the years. He participated in the 1967 time is now. Commander Read in Who's Who. That in classics, and was awarded the Doctor was all and that was when his research Williamsburg Conference-held to con­ of Philosophy Degree in 1953. The log turned up in a search for sider ways to carry out the ideas of the objects for the New York window gal­ began. Ten years later, after serving as Dean With the book finally completed, the global education act recommended by leries of the East River Savings Bank President Johnson at the Smithsonian's of Faculties and Professor of Classics in Rockefeller Plaza for an NC-4 dis­ (Continued on page 4) first international symposium in 1965- at the University of Ghana, he was play prepared by the Smithsonian and appointed pro vice-chancellor. And, in the U.S. Navy commemor,ating the an­ 1966, he succeeded Dr. Conor Cruise niversary. The Office of Public Affairs Man Center Members Gathering O'Brien as vice-chancellor. sought out Mr. Steirman, who had Despite his numerous administrative Members of the Center for the Study Dr. John Napier, SI Department of written his book on the plane some years duties, Dr. Kwapong has managed to of Man will gather for their first official ago. The principal tool in the search was Vertebrate Zoology. keep alive his scholarly interests in his­ meeting May 11, 12, and 13 , immedli­ Dr. Douglas W. Schwartz, School of the Manhattan telephone directory. A torical studies about the interplay be­ ately preceeding the Symposium. American Research, Santa Fe, New call identified him, yes, as the author tween Greek and early African civiliza­ of Triumph: The Incredible Saga of the The international group will be estalb­ Mexico. tions, particularly those in Mediter­ Dr. Surajit C. Sinha, Anthropological First Transatlantic Flight. lishing directions and organizing pro­ ranean North Africa. grams for the Center, which was set up Survey of India, Calcutta. Steirman spent six years researching under the Secretary's office last year. Dr. M. N. Srinivas, Department of In his capacity as chairman of the the book and believes he interviewed Sociology, University of Delhi. Smithsonian symposium, Dr. Kwapong every person alive at the time who had Acting director of the Center is Dr. Dr. T. Dale Stewart, SI Department will direct the forum assessments of the been connected with the flight. In 1959 Sol Tax of the University of Chicago. relationship of animal behavior to of Anthropology. he caught up by phone on a Friday Dr. Samuel Stanley serves full time as Dr. George W. Stocking, Jr., Depart­ human behavior as interpreted by eleven night with Rear Admiral Read at his program coordinator. Scholars who have ment of History, University of Chicago. distinguished scientists · and scholars home in Virginia Beach. accepted invitations to join the inter­ from the United States and abroad. di sciplinary group include: Dr. William C. Sturtevant, SI Depart­ "Come at nine Sunday," Read said, ment of Anthropology. Eleven scholars will present interpretive and Steirman was there. Dr. Fredrik Barth, Institute of Social papers in three subject areas: "Funda­ Anthropology, Bergen Norway. Dr. Sherwood L. Washburn, Depart­ He taped hours of talk. But the bulk mental Mechanisms of Social Behavior," Dr. Henry B. Collins, S1 Department ment of Anthropology, University of of his anecdotes about Read came from "Extending the Scope of Social Be­ of Anthropology. California at Berkeley. crew survivors and oth~r Navy men be­ Dr. Wilcomb Washburn, SI Depart­ havior," ,and "Evolution of Soical Be­ Dr. John C. Ewers, SI Department cause, as Steirman wrote, in Triumph, ment of American Studies. havior." of Anthropology. "Putty" Read "was by birth a quiet man, Dr. Waldo R. Wedel, SI Department About 300 persons from the scientific, a New Englander whose Vermont back­ Dr. Gordon D. Gibson, SI Depart­ of Anthropology. scholarly, professional, legislative, and ground had taught him to speak only ment of Anthropology. Collins, Stewart, Ewers, and Wedel administrative fields , Smithsonian staff, ~hen it w.as absolutelv necessary, then Dr. Dell H. Hymes, Department of will serve as senior advisers to the Center. and members of the local community to say as little as possible." Anthropology, University of Pennsyl­ Among the programs already being are being invited to participate in the vania. A glance through the pages of the log conducted, by the Center are a world general and working sessions of the substantiates this: "May 3 All O.K. Dr. Robert M. Laughlin, SI Depart­ anthropology data bank, ethno-film symposium. except one or two minor matters. Hand ment of Anthropology. archives, and history of anthropology Distinguished anthropologist Marga.ret gas pump replaced. Ch. Sp. mach. Dr. Claude Levi-Strauss, Laboratoire archives, planning for the future Me~d and Marvin Bressler, Princeton Howard had his hand cut off by propel­ d'Anthropologie Sociale, Paris. Museum of Man, urgent anthropology, sociologist, will be discussants at the lor on account of forgetfulness. May 21 Dr. Chie Nakane, Institute of Oriental and handbook of North American close of the public lectures, May 14 and Tried 3 times to get off .... May 22 Culture, University of Tokyo. Indians. 15, respectively. Page 2 THE SMITHSONIAN TORCH May, 1969 -Lexington- Super Runner, Super Sire, Out to Pasture in MNH by Mary M. Krug an unprecedented number of successful racers and brood mares, among them When 1969's promisi ng three-year­ Tom Bowling, Tom Ochiltree, and Preak­ aids have established themselves in this ness, namesake of the cl ass ic race at spring's Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Pimlico. Three of Lexington's offspring Belmont Stakes, will there be another were Preakness winners, a record. and it Lexington among them? was hi s own grandson, Fellowcraft, who Lexington never ran in any of the finally beat his four-mile time, at Sara­ Triple Crown races, or in any other toga in 1874. currently well known stakes race, but he is nonetheless remembered as one of He "reached his high mark in 1870, America's greatest horses. So great was when his sons and daughters earned he, in fact, that his bones have been $12,360, this being the first time a sta'l­ made part of the permanent collections lion had as much as $100,000 credited of the Smithsonian Institution, and were to his get in one year," The Blood Horse on public display until a few years ago. reports. He was America's champion sire Lexington lost only one race in his from 1861 to 1874 and in 1876 and career, and that came on a day when he 1878. was less than healthy. He subsequently Lexington died in 1875 at A. J. set a four-mile record of 7.193,4 at the Alexander's Woodburn Farm in Spring Metairie Course in New Orleans, a Station, Kentucky. His passing was record that stood for some 20 years. He marked by effusive obituaries in livestock started seven races ,and won six, earning journals and Kentucky newspapers. $56,600, but hi s greatest fame came as "We need not, we are sure, make any Lexington, considerably under his running weight, stands among the other bones a sire. apology to our readers for the space of the MNH attic. Checking out the skeleton that once held America's finest exam­ Retired to stud in 1855 because of devoted this week to the memoir of ple of horse flesh is Frank Greenwell of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology. eye troubles, the great bay horse sired Lexington, the most remarkabl e horse this country, if not the world, has ever The Institution assigned Professor N . seen," wrote the K entucky Live Stock A. Ward of Rochester, N .Y ., at the time Carl Grant Joins Record. "He was not a passi ng meteor the most accomplished preparer of Horse of Another Color that rushes through the air, dazzling our skeletons in the country, to visit eyes with its brilliant light, leaving little Lexington (see above) is not the Alexander's farm and personally super­ only famous horse with which Personnel Staff or no impression, but a bl azing sun vise the disinterment of the bones. whose influence interpenetrated and has Frank Greenwell has recently been Carl E. Grant has joined the staff of The horse was displayed until 1956 in associ ated. been identified with all our stock. No the Smithsoni an's old Skeleton Hall, the Office of Personnel and Management horse was his equal upon the American Greenwell, chief of the speci­ Resources as a Senior Personnel Consul­ where thousands ' of visitors each year men preparation lab in the Depart­ turf, and none can be compared with read of his track exploits. tant. him as a stallion." ment of Vertebrate Zoology, and He came from the U.S. Civil Service Lexington's blood lines have now run his sister Sybil Greenwell, a He was buried in a coffin "at the gate Commission, Bureau of Executive Man­ out, and his bones have been consigned museum technicia.n, recently un­ to his harem," and there were many re­ power, where he served as an Occupa­ to the attic of the National Museum of dertook the job of . refurbishing quests for his bones. Alexander, the tional Specialist concerned with the Natural History, along with other Little Sorrel, Stonewall Jackson's owner, "felt a repugnance to having his development and administration of an large items from the study collections. favorite mount, for the Virginia bones disturbed," his agent told the But his contributions to the sport of executive personnel program for the Military Institute. Smithsonian, "but in the interests of kings, asa runner and as a stallion, will Federal Government. The horse is a focal point of the science he had concluded to allow his be long remembered and perhaps never From 1960 until 1966 he was em­ VMI museum, directed by Lyon equaled. ployed by the Department of the Army skeleton to be set up." G. Tyler. Tyler contracted with in various capacities in the personnel the Greenwells to do the job, field culminating in his appointment as which was accomplished in three a Personnel Officer. In 1966 he trans­ 51, MIT to Collaborate weekends. ferred to the Defense Contract Audit Little Sorrel has never looked Agency as a Staff Specialist in Career better in his memory, Tyler re­ Management Programs. In Sao Paulo Bienal Entry ported to the Smithsonia.n follow­ He will provide personnel and organi­ The Massachusetts Institute of Tech­ Bienal de Sao Paulo (] Oth Sao Paulo ing the Greenwell restoration. zational consulting service to the Secre­ nology will collaborate with the Smith­ Biennial) . tariat. sonian on producing a nd exhibiting the Largest of the international art bien­ official United States entry in the X ni als with entries from more than 70 nations, the Brazilian event will be held this year from the last week of Septem­ Benson Attending ber through December. Gyorgy Kepes, Director of M.LT.'s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Czech Meeting will direct the design and construction of Compiled by Francine Berkowitz what is expected to be a trend-setting American entry. He will work with a Paleontologist Richard H . Benson will number of Fellows at the Center for represent the Smithsonian this month in Advanced Visual Studies. Czechoslovakia at the 170th anniversary They will produce an exhibition made celebration of the birth of Joachin Bar­ up of two parts. The first section will rande. He will then go on to Turkey, have what Kepes describes as a "com­ Cyprus, Italy, Great Britain, and Yugo­ munity, or society," of objects ranging slavia to discuss international coopera­ from simple to more complex forms, tive programs. which will interact with each other and Other May travelers include: produce "a sort of fabric." The second W. Thomas Chase, Freer, in England, part of the exhibition will be an "in­ Scotland, the Netherlands, Belgium, formation center" using a wide range France, and Sweden visiting conservation of simultaneous techniques- films , slides, laboratories and museums. video tapes, all showing aspects of the Richard Cifelli, Paleontology, visiting American art scene. The two sections of Spain, Tunisia, and Italy to conduct re­ the exhibition will be constructed in a search on planktonic foraminifera. large room. The room, its contents, and Paul Gardner, Ceramics and Glass, in the environment produced will thus con­ Great Britain, Portugal, Spain, Italy, stitute the work of art. Switzerland, Germany, France, and Bel­ lt will be the first time a national gium to study ceramics and glass collec­ art biennial has ever been a team effort tions. Richard H . Howland, special assistant without individual artists being featured. \ Following exhibition in Brazil, the to Secretary, attending meetings at the \ U .S. entry will be brought to this coun­ American School of Classical Studies in try and displayed at the National Col­ Athens. lection and in Cambridge, Mass., at the M endel L. Peterson, Armed Forces Massachusetts Institute of Technology. History, attending the International Congress of Museums of Arms and Mili­ Alexander Calder's jet black 40-foot sta­ tary History in Rome and studying artil­ bile, a gift to the Smithsonian from Mrs. lery collecti0ns throughout western Gwendolyn Cafritz, takes shape in its Europe. permanent location on the west side of J. F. Gates Clarke, Entomology. in MHT. The angular sculpture will sit in a England and the Netherlands to examine 108 by 60-foot pool of water. Sculptor lepidoptera collections in Leiden and Calder will be on hand for dedication London museums. of his work on June 3. Lending human Wallace R. Ernst. Botany. in Morocco scale to the stabile above is Mrs. Mar­ to explore opportunities for cooperative garet Kirby of the Office of Public Af­ botannical research and perform botan­ fairs. ical field work. May, 1969 THE SMITHSONIAN TORCH Pa.ge 3

Galeta Island corals are a research specialty of STRI marine biologist Peter Glynn. Underwater photo by Anthony Mann. A Glimpse of STRI

Ornithologist Neal Smith gathers data on nesting oropendolas in a current study.

Photos not otherwise credited are by Wil­ liam Clark, MDT Exhibits.

Cebas monkeys--photogenic subjects in broad behavioral research under way at STRI. Photo by John Oppenheimer.

Dr. and Mrs. Ira Rubinoff search for specimens at low tide in marine biology studies that include the potential ecologi­ cal effect of joining the Atlantic and Pa­ cific by a proposed new sea level canal.

Visiting graduate fellow Ron Lar­ kin is studying a peccary--one of hundreds of spe­ cies of fauna on Barro Colorado.

Stone steps on Barro Colorado, infamous landmark in field of tropical research, lead from the shore of Gatun Lake up the side of the heavily forested tropic island. Page 4 THE SMITHSONIAN TORCH May, 1969 NCFA Offers Kid Stuff­ Touchable Art Displays by Benjamin Ruhe A miniature art museum they can call has a step-like construction which will their own has been opened for children be perfect for climbing around on. An by the N ational Collection of Fine Arts. aluminum sculpture by Richard Calabro Touching and rearranging of sculpture with a number of components th.at can are encouraged. Some objects are climb­ be put together in any way a child able. chooses is a loan from the Henri Gal­ Opened May 1 with a party for lery. Adam Peiperl's "Astrolite," a fas­ children of staff members and docents, cinating creation in which a lighted the unique one-room art gallery is object moves inside a globe, is a loan located across from the museum shop from the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. on the first floor. A kinetic sculpture by Stephen Day The Junior Museum, as it is called, and some 20th century animal creations has been fostered by Susan Sollins, -bears, turtles, and cranes-by Paul museum programs assistant to NCF A Manship, Bessie Stough Callender and director Dr. David W. Scott. others, will also be shown. "We want to take away the idea of All of the sculpture is small-scale. To many children that a museum is a scary further di spel the idea that a museum is place," she says in discussing the project. just for adults, children enter and leave The museum will be used every day at the Junior Museum by what Miss Sollins scheduled times, and always under adult calls "crazy doors-the inside door of supervision. Exhibits will change at least a double set at the entrance has a circle yearl y. There is space in the museum so the child will have to climb into the for up to 60 people. room. This will set the room, which be­ On display are only two paintings, an longs to them, off from the big museum. 18-foot striped canvas by Gene Davis Also, it will be fun ." The exit door has and Robert Indiana's "The Figure Five." a diamond-shaped hole, through which Lyman Kipp's four-foot minimal sculp­ the child al so has to climb. ture, designed specifically for the Chil­ Although some other art galleries dren's Museum and a gift of the artist, around the country have rooms for children, the National Collection feels NC-4 Log its Junior Museum is unique because of (Continued from page 1) the degree of involvement of the child log went into his files and was almost with the art objects. forgotten in the pressure of his current Much of the money for the room work as publisher of Coronet Magazine. was raised at an NCFA benefit fashion But he will never forget "Putty" show I.ast year. Gifts by friends !have Read. supplemented help from the NCFA it­ "He w.as the first man to fly across self. PLEASE · TOUCH-Deer by 20th century sculptor Paul Manship intrigue two the Atlantic Ocean," Steirman wrote in young visitors to the new NCFA Children's Museum. Enjoying the museum's the closing lines of his book. "He had opening party are two-year-old Miss Alwynne Wilbur, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. changed the world." Lunchbox Talks Robert Wilbur-Mrs. Wilbur is an NCFA docent-and Master Stephen Sollins, In addition to the log, he also turned 18 months, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Sollins and nephew of staff member Susan over other historic NC-4 material in­ May lunchbox speakers at NASM's Sollins. Photo by H a rry ll. N eufeld cluding photographs, then-Lieutenant Wednesday noon seminars in the A&I Commander Read's sc·rapbook, and tape conference room include: recordings of the 1959 interviews with May 14-Harvey Lippincott, enginee.r Read. and historian, Pratt and Whitney Air­ Masada Exhibit Depicts Other participants in the ceremony craft Division, "Early High Altitude included Read's widow; E. S. Rhoads, Tests for the Pratt and Whitney WASP one of the two survivors of the crew; Engines." Sacrifice of Jewish Zealots Admir.al Thomas H . Moorer, Chief of May 21-John H. Tegler, director, In the year A.D. 73 , in a rocky for­ cording to the historian Jose phus, "They Naval Operation; Dr. J. C. Hunsaker, a 1969 Florida National Air Races, tress looming 1300 feet above the Dead then chose ten men by lot out of them, former SI Regent and one of the de­ " Modern Rebirth of Air Racing." Sea, 953 Jewish Zealots killed themselves to slay all the rest ... and when these signers of the "Nancies"; Clarence I. May 28-Captain Robert A. Lavender, rather than surrender to Roman attack­ ten had, without fear, slain them all , Kesler, 87, a crewman aboard the NC- USN Ret., radio · officer for the NC ers. they made the same rule for casting lots 1; R. A. Lavender, 79, radio operator transatlantic flight and radio operator on In the year A.D. 1963 the fortress, for themselves, that he whose lot it was of the NC- 3; Secretary Ripley, Navy the NC-3, "The First Transatlantic Masada, was again besieged, this time by should first kill the other nine, and after "fficials and widows of some of the crew. Flight.' archeologists and volunteer diggers from all. should kill himself." around the world. Their finds are the One of the most dramatic finds .at the subject of an important special exhibition site was eleven small potsherds un­ opening at the Smithsonian May 18. earthed by a group of volunteers. In­ Cosponsored by the Jewish Com­ scribed in Hebrew on each was a dif­ munity Foundation, the exhibition will ferent name, including that of Eleazar fill the art hall of the Museum of Ben Ya'ir, the leader of the Zealots. Natural History until July 20. It is Yigael Yadin, Israeli archeologist who traveling under the auspices of the led the expedition, speculates that the Jewish Theological Seminary and the potsherds may have been used for cast­ Israel Exploration Society. ing the final lots described by Josephus. Herod the Great built a palace on the Of special significance are the parch­ nearly impenetrable site in 36 B.C. It ment scrolls the expedition turned up in is accessible only from two steep serpen­ the near-by caves of Bar-Kokhba. A por­ tine stone pathways, and was equipped tion of a scroll identical with one of with stores of food and water against the Dead Sea Scroll fragments has en­ siege. It was an ideal setting for the abled researchers to date both documents Zealot's last-ditch stand, but even with in the first half of the first century, thus its strategic position the outnumbered answering scholars who had contended Jews were no match for the Romans. that the Dead Sea Scrolls are either not When defeat became imminent, .ac- genuine or date only from medieval times. The large Smithsonian exhibition will Hodgkins Medal present a chronology of Masada from the time of Herod the Great through Dr. Eni Njoku (left) vice-chancellor of the University of Biafra and a distin­ Winners Named the siege. In addition to the scrolls, pot­ guished African scientist, paid a recent visit to the Smithsonian as part of an effort Meteorologist Jule Gregory Charney sherds, and other artifacts from the dig, to keep open communications between the international scientific community and of th o;! Massachusetts Institute of Tech­ the display will fe ature large photo those Biafran scientists cut off from contact with the outside world because of the nology and Arie Haagen-Smit, pioneer panels of the excavation site, a reproduc­ war. • biochemist from the California Institute tion of a Zealot dwelling, and a model He is pictured here with Dr. Edward Ayensu, (right) a fellow botanist and citizen of Technology will receive the Smith­ of Roman legions besieging the fortress. of Ghana, who is conducting research at the Smithsonian on the fauna and I~ora sonian's Hodgkins Medal for " important tress . of West Africa. They are examining specimens and slides of African yams, a staple contributions to knowledge of the physi­ Slides and audio tapes will help bring in tbe diet of much of the population. Dr. Njoku, a former head of the University cal environment bearing on the welfare the display to life. There will also be a of Lagos and president of the Science Association of Nigeria before the outbreak. of man." BBC-produced movie, "Return to of war, reported that scientific research, particularly on foodcrops and food pro­ Dr. Lee Dubridge, scientific advisor Masada", shown each Friday through­ duction, is in high gear in Biafra. to President Nixon, will make the pres­ out the day in the MNH auditorium. While here he also had a reunion with Dr. Wilton S. Dillon, Smithsonian Direc­ entations on behalf of the Institution Arrangements for the exhibition are tor of Seminars and former head of the Africa Science Board of the National at the convocation of the Smithsonian's under the supervision of Dr. Gus Van Academy of Sciences, who has worked closely on science cooperation matters with third international symposium May 14. Beek. curator of old world anthropology. Dr. Njoku and other African scientists over the past 10 years. The medalists will give a public lecture James Mahoney and William Haase of Dr. Njoku came to the United States to participate in sessions of the United that evening, 8 :45 p.m., in the audi­ MNH exhibit are redesigning the Art Nations Committee on Science and Technology Applied to Economic Deve·lop­ torium of the Museum of History and Hall to accommodate this large exhibition ment, of wbicb he has been a member for the past five years. Technology. and are handling its installation.

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