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FOR ADMINISTRATIVE USE ONLY

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
Proceedings of the Meeting of the Board of Regents
September 21, 1992

CONTENTS
                           Page
Summary of Proceedings -- i-xii
Attendance -- 1
Consideration of the Proposed Consent and Information Agenda -- 2
Minutes of the Meeting of May 11, 1992 -- 2
Report of the Executive Committee -- 2
Report of the Audit and Review Committee -- 4
Report of the Investment Policy Committee -- 6
Designation of Messrs. Acheson and Garn as Regents Emeritus -- 7
Appointments to Smithsonian Board and Commissions -- 8
Refinements to Planning and Re-Casting the Five Year Prospectus -- 9
Report Of the Task Force on Fund Raising at the Smithsonian -- 9
Japan Exhibition Project -- 10
Arctic Studies Program -- 11
Disposition of Land Outside the Environmental Research Center Watershed -- 11
Summary of Developments Relating to National Museum of the American Indian -- 12
Status Reports -- 14
- Legislative Actions and Issues -- 14
- Litigation -- 17
- Mitchell Case -- 20
- Extension of Directors' and Officers' Insurance -- 20
- Major Construction -- 21
- Development Initiatives -- 22
- New Accounting System -- 23
- Indirect Costs and Internal Controls -- 24
- Mpala Research Center -- 26
- Smithsonian Institution/National Science Foundation Relationships 27
- National Postal Museum -- 28
- 150th Anniversary Commemoration -- 29
- Multiple Mirror Telescope Casting Update -- 30