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contain over 2,500,000 records, many of them covering batches of specimens.  The information will be of immediate practical importance to the Museum as the move of collections to the Museum Support Center gets under way in 1983.  It is essential that the inventory files be maintained on a current basis both at the Museum and at the Museum Support Center, and this will require continuation of funding for inventory support.

The Subarctic volume, the fourth in the Handbook of North American Indians series, was published early in 1982, and publication of the Southwest II volume is scheduled for the spring of 1983.  First editing, artifact and photo selections will be completed for the Arctic volume, the next in the series, in the spring of 1983.  A new managing editor for the Handbook should be hired late in fiscal year 1982 and this will help to accelerate production.

The Museum of Man exists as a concept within the facilities and administrative framework of the Museum of Natural History.  As a museum, it has no resources, building, or activities of its own independent of the Museum of Natural History, except as reflected in the operations of the Center for the Study of Man.  In future years, the Museum plans to organize several of its man-related disciplines and endeavors into a more meaningful operation, and reasons for highlighting the concept of a separate Museum of Man are important to attaining certain institutional goals.  For several years, the Institution's administration has felt the need to create an entity which will coalesce and promote interdisciplinary research and exhibitions in man-related endeavors.

Changes were made to the Center for the Study of Man in FY 1981, including the establishment of separate filming and archival units of the National Human Studies Film Center.  The archival unit focuses on obtaining and preserving film on the human condition from the past and the present.  Research on current human activities is the focus of the filming unit.  The Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies, which concentrates on immigration to the United States and its extraterritorial jurisdictions, has been incorporated into the Museum's Department of Anthropology.  The program's director will continue his research on immigration and other topics as a member of the Department.

In FY 1982, the Museum of Natural History undertook the management of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Link Port, Florida (formerly called the Fort Pierce Bureau), as an integral part of its marine research program.  The name change was made to reflect the fact that the facility at Fort Pierce is not a bureau in and of itself with a program of its own, but rather a locus for the conduct of research and available to scientists from several of the Institution's bureaus.  Over the planning period, a series of cooperative efforts with other bureaus and outside scholars will be