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$250,000 from Intelsat. The exhibit's remaining needs, about $450,000 in cash and $1,500,000 in equipment, remain to be raised from the computer industry.

The National Museum of American Art's Inventory of American Sculpture has received a grant of $150,000 over three years from the Henry Luce Foundation. A formal request has been submitted to the J. Paul Getty Trust and Initial inquiries have been sent to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Wallace Funds.

the Smithsonian's Conservation Analytical Laboratory has proposed to build a radiation shield onto the reactor at the National Bureau of Standards to irradiate paintings and other art objects prior to further conservation. A total of $135,000 is needed. Proposals have been rejected by the Getty, the Kress, and the Mellon Foundations. An approach has been made to the Surdna Foundation in New York.

The Bering Straits Exhibition, featuring Siberian ethnographic materials common to both sides of the Straits, would be a cooperative exhibition with the USSR and Canada. To meet a total budget of $2.6 million, $300,000 is needed in cash and $250,000 is needed in-kind transportation from seven international airlines serving Moscow. Cash might also come from Japanese companies with an interest in the area, cruise ship companies which sail in the Bering Straits, and American companies with Russian markets. Pan Am has recently agreed to provide transportation, and there have been informal indications from IBM that it might contribute between $250,000 and $300,000.

Approximately $650,000 will be required for the complete refurbishment of the Insect Zoo of the National Museum of Natural History. That exhibition is now ten years old and outdated. Work on this fund raising project has begun with research on past donors and new prospects.