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institutions in third world nations.

As part of efforts to promote the integration of systematics with ecology, SI might wish to examine (and exemplify) cooperation with relevant social science researchers and research programs. This might mean encouraging further readings of, and meetings with, geographers, sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists whose work raises questions about the politics and culture of ecological undertakings.

It is also urgent that SI renew those activities, including its exhibit programs, that deal with human population problems, and give consideration to how these problems can be more sharply focused and transmitted.
 
It would also be appropriate to include human "made" plants and animals (crops, livestock, and semi-domesticated animals) within the subject matter of bio-diversity research and conservation activities.

A more active partnership with American universities, and with local tropical institutions, could enhance progress toward many of these goals, as well as stimulate development of natural science curricula and programs concerned with conservation information transfer.

Finally, it is vital to explore the potential of local human cultures and developed partnerships with them. Better understanding of and cooperation with their own knowledge systems may well help advance bio-diversity research and conservation. 

Such a listing of suggestions, again, is lengthy and, if followed up, will further place further pressures upon the precious resources of SI. But we dare to propose them because of the magnitude and significance of bio-diversity issues, and the unique capacities of SI.

After lunch, the Council returned for its final session, devoting itself to a spirited discussion of Advocacy, Scholarship and Public Programs. The moderators here were Katherine Watson, Mary Frances Berry, and David Gergen. As background, Council members received summary histories of two recent exhibitions, "The West As America," and "A More Perfect Union," as well as a brief description of a forthcoming show, "The Case of Darkened Waters: Profile of an Oil Spill." This was accompanied by a statement on Advocacy, Scholarship and Public Programs by Assistant Secretary Tom Freudenheim. The case studies were meant to provide a jumping off point for discussion of ways in which to present the new scholarship, along with evaluating the kinds of controversies that have emerged alongside it. We did not intend to focus upon the three exhibitions as such, and, with some exceptional comments here and there, did not do so. 

Although the materials sent out were fascinating and significant, moderators emphasized the short lead time available to them before the annual meeting and the difficulties that were faced in planning this particular session. Moreover, despite the utility of documents and summaries, characterization of exhibitions that all Council members had not seen, was clearly inappropriate. The session, then, really became a forum for continuing to talk about