The 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) will be held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, USA from 27 June - 2 July 1999.  There are: workshops on Finance and Funding: Linking Collections Care Needs to Money in the Museum, Rigging: Lifting and Moving Large Objects, and CO2 Fumigation: Atmospheric Treatment of Museum Objects for Pest Control; field trips to the Smithsonian Institution Naturalist Center and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife National Conservation Training Center, Jefferson Patterson Park (Academy of Natural Sciences Estuarine Research Center and Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory), Fossil Localities in Calvert County, and Alexandria Archaeology; collections tours of various Smithsonian Institution facilities and centers; and social events in addition to the main meetings including three specialty sessions: Molecular Research/Frozen Tissue Collections; Health and Safety Issues in Collections; and, Repatriation.  Please check the SPNHC web site at http://www.spnhc.org/wash99/index.html