The Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Event Alert Network (SEAN)

* A cable from the author of this note [with due punctuation, etc.] concludes ‘We are delighted and honored to have your collaboration with SEAN take the form [especially] of publishing suitable material from time to time. Thank you very much for your continuing and enthusiastic interest. You are providing a most helpful service by publicizing SEAN efforts to be responsive to the needs of world scientific research…. The Center for Short-lived Phenomena is no longer part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its staff were transferred to Smithsonian in Washington to establish SEAN in place of CSLP [which is] now a separately incorporated entity with no affiliation with Smithsonian’.—Ed.