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[[underlined]] The Secretary's Report [[/underlined]]

The Secretary gave an oral presentation on a number of topics which were of rather recent origin or especially tentative in their nature as the business of the Institution. He began by outlining the schedule for the morning, which would culminate in the formal ceremony to open the National Museum of African Art, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and the S. Dillon Ripley Center to the public. He expressed his gratitude to Mrs. Armstrong for her willingness to give the keynote address in those proceedings.

THE SECRETARY'S EXTRA-INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES

Mr. Adams reported that he has accepted appointment on two important assignments outside of the immediate concerns of the Smithsonian. In June he was named as one of twenty members of a National Academy of Sciences committee of "experts" to evaluate the suitability of proposed locations for the nation's new superconducting super collider. He added that the bulk of his work, reviewing a plethora of proposals from all across the nation, has already been completed, though the reviews by members of the panel from other disciplines will take considerably longer. Even without any promise that the superconducting super collider will ever be built, it is already evident that this is a research undertaking of immense proportions and one of potentially great significance for the nation.

In an unrelated development, in July the Governing Board of the National Research Council elected the Secretary to assume the Chairmanship of the National Academy of Sciences' Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, a post he had held in the 1970's, for the next three years. This Commission is particularly concerned with improving