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techniques, and a major facility for training staff and visiting interns in scientific theory and practical conservation skills.  The provisions for necessary increased activity in conservation research and training, by bringing together the Department of Anthropology's processing and conservation laboratories with those of the Oceanographic Sorting Center and the Conservation Analytical Laboratory, will open new opportunities for Smithsonian conservators and trainees.

We now have nine conservators and nine scientists concerned with this important curatorial responsibility.  More conservators are needed.  Some, no doubt, will be found in other training centers but many can be trained in-house.  Scientists specializing in the study of materials and their behavior are increasingly in demand by museums and research organizations, and more must be added to the staff.  Archaeometry, a new term describing the study of materials, their origins, methods of formation and the way they react with the environment, has only been carried out at the Smithsonian on an occasional basis.  If we are going to fully understand historical and manufacturing processes, far more study must be made of the fundamental properties of materials from which our objects are made.  Through these means we will be better able to preserve them and acquire new data on the evolution of past civilizations.

Senator Pell stated that he had envisioned a large school for conservators in this facility with ability to accommodate 150 students earning degrees.  Mr. Perrot explained that the resources to equip such a school would possibly be attainable over the next ten years.