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[[underlined]] Special $2.0 million Allocation of Trust Funds [[/underlined]]

The Regents have approved in FY 1978, and again in FY 1979, the allocation of $2,000,000 from unrestricted trust funds for awards to Smithsonian units for collections acquisition, scholarly projects, and educational outreach. Awards made through December 4, 1978, are as follows:

[[underlined]] Collections Acquisition [[/underlined]]

$70,000 Previously awarded (pp. 112-115 of proceedings of the September 1978 meeting of the Board of Regents.)

$125,000 National Collection of Fine Arts 
Purchase of landscape [[underline]] Dover Plain [[/underline]] by Asher B. Durand (1796=1886), with matching funds to be sought from outside sources.



$70,000 Museum of Natural History
Purchase of collection of fossil birds, plants, fish and insects assembled by H.J. Kirby Siber.

$100,000 Museum of History and Technology
Purchase of quartet of 18th century Italian string instruments for Division of Musical Instruments.

[[underlined]] $1,635,000 [[/underlined]] Unallocated.
$2,000,000

[[underlined]] Scholarly Projects [[/underlined]]

$356,782 Previously awarded (pp. 112-115 of proceedings of the September 1978 meeting of the Board of Regents.)

$25,000 Folklife Program  (Ralph Rinzler)
Field research for the 1978 Festival.

$26,000 Chesapeake Bay Center  (David L. Correll, Jack W. Pierce and Tung L. Wu)
Study on relationship between die-off of submerged higher aquatic plants in the Chesapeake Bay and Herbicides in land runoff.

$5,000 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute  (Robert Silberglied)
Canopy fogging across the Isthmus of Panama: sampling insect density along a climatic gradient in the tropics.

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