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will the landscaping associated with the Museum Support Center. This Office has also maintained the Victorian Horticulture and Floriculture Exhibition in the Arts and Industries Building. New effects in exhibits, coupled with research and propagation efforts for special collections of rare and endangered floral species, will enhance the dimensions of the horticultural function in coming years. 

The Office of International Activities will support arrangements for research programs being planned in cooperation with foreign scientific agencies and organizations and develop new programs to be carried out with similar organizations in the People's Republic of China. 

Increases in appropriations available to the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) are being planned for FY 1984-88 to help keep rental charges down for users of this populat service; to reduce the effects of inflation on production and transportation costs of traveling exhibits; and to strengthen the registrarial, education, and publication functions of the program. If appropriation increases are not realized, the impact will be felt in higher costs for users for participatory fees and transportation costs. In FY 1980, the Institution began planning for circulating a series of major exhibitions from abroad. Initial contracts have been made with several South American countries to encourage their use of SITES' offerings; interes has been shown in these prospects, and funding and environmental questions are now being examined in greater detail. 

Encouraged by the successful launching of the international tour of the [[underlined]]American Impressionist[[/underlined]] exhiition which opened in Paris in March 1982, SITES will organize an exhibition of [[underlined]]American Art of the 20s and 30s[[/underlined]] to inaugurate a European tour at the next European Conference on American Studies to be held in Rome in March of 1984. The exhibition to be selected from Smithsonian and other private collections will consist of sixty paintings by Henri, Glackens, Bellows, Hopper, and Marin, among others. A selection committee will be formed to select the works and write the catalogue essays, as well as to participate in a seminar on the subject at the American Studies meeting. After the showing in Rome, the exhibition will travel to four additional European cities. 

SITES is working with the United States Information Agency (formerly the International Communications Agency) to organize an East Asian tour of a selection from the Renwick Gallery's [[underlined]]American Porcelain[[/underlined]] exhibition. Sixty imaginative and original works, ranging from the functional to the sculptural, were selected by SITES and Renwick staff to travel to Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong, Manila, and Tokyo beginning in July of 1983.