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-220- [[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. continued.../