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- 45 - (5) The underground link between the Old General Post Office Building and the Patent Office Building will be made suitable for staff use. (6) Not less than 30,000 square feet in the Old General Post Office will be reserved for other Smithsonian office space requirements. The Secretary emphasized that these conclusions were still preliminary, with a myriad of more specific implications which will need to be worked out. Accordingly, he has asked Assistant Secretary for Museums Tom Freudenheim and Director of Facilities Services Richard Siegle to work out more specific ground rules for space allocations. NATIONAL POSTAL HISTORY AND PHILATELIC MUSEUM Development of the National Postal History and Philatelic Museum is progressing on schedule. Keyes Condon Florance Eichbaum Esocoff King has been selected as the architect for the museum and GHT Limited has been chosen to provide mechanical engineering support. Both the architectural and engineering firms are currently producing the 35% schematic design drawings and documents for the project. Construction is expcted to commence in December. The present architectural and engineering timetable calls for the museum staff to occupy the completed museum facility, located in the former Washington City Post Office building, in July 1992. The philatelic and postal history collections will be relocated to the new museum from the National Museum of American History late in 1992 under the current schedule, and the exhibits will open to the public in mid-1993. Miles Fridberg Molinaroli has been selected to design the museum's exhibition galleries and public spaces. MPALA RESEARCH CENTER Several years ago the Smithsonian Institution began informal discussions with Mr. George Small, a Baltimore resident and alumnus of Princeton University who owns a large ranch in north-central Kenya. Mr. Small, who has no children and is unmarried, wishes to establish a Center at the ranch to support research in biology and wildlife conservation. It is his hope that the Smithsonian Institution and Princeton University will cooperate in the conduct of research, and the administration of the proposed Center. These two organizations, together with the National Museums of Kenya and the Kenya Wildlife Service, have recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement that spells out the relationships and responsibilities of the members of this consortium. The Memorandum constitutes the legal basis for the proposed Mpala Research Center. The next step in this project is to raise funds to support the Center. Princeton University and the Smithsonian have agreed to a join fund-raising team, which is currently being organized to develop a fund-raising plan. The Smithsonian has also requested an initial sum of $50,000 in the fiscal year 93 federal budget to assist the establishment of the Center.
