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External Affairs to ascertain the needs which the Institution may have to develop an augmented profile, both nationally and internationally, in general terms as well as those relating directly to development and membership networks and public affairs.

[[underlined]] REPORT ON MUSEUM DEACCESSIONS DURING 1987 [[/underlined]]

Mr. Adams drew the Regents' attention to the following report on Smithsonian deaccessioning in 1987:

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This is the third annual report to the Board of Regents on deaccesssioning from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Collection statistics are calculated on fiscal and calendar years, depending on bureau procedures.

[[underlined]] National Zoological Park [[/underlined]]

Animals which are surplus to the collection occur because of breeding. Unneeded animals are deaccessioned through sale, trade, or donation to other zoos or breeders and, occasionally, through reintroduction into the wild. Some 850 animals were deaccessioned through these methods in 1987. Proceeds from the sale of animals go into an animal acquisition fund.

[[underlined]] National Museum of American History [[/underlined]] 

Objects deaccessioned in fiscal year 1987 at the National Museum of American History were transferred to other Smithsonian organizations (such as 205 books to Smithsonian Libraries) or other not-for-profit institutions (one flag and one Studebaker Champion sedan), or they were destroyed because of extremely bad condition (eight textiles and one neonatal respirator).

[[underlined]] National Museum of Natural History [[/underlined]]

Typically, natural history specimens have little monetary value. In 1987 the National Museum of Natural History recorded eight transactions involving 490 specimens deaccessioned from the collection because they were judged by the curators to be redundant or because insufficient data supported the specimens. 

[[underlined]] Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation [[/underlined]]

In the past year the Office deaccessioned a sideboard to the U.S. Treasury, recouping $750, and discarded a set of draperies and a folding screen because of poor condition.

[[underlined]] National Museum of American Art [[/underlined]]

In accordance with Smithsonian policy, during 1987, 488 works of art on paper were approved for deaccession by the National Museum of American