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After discussion it was agreed that the Secretary should use the foregoing statement to represent the general position of the Institution.

NATIONAL SCIENCE RESOURCES CENTER

Mr. Adams reported that the National Science Resources Center, the joint enterprise of the Smithsonian and the National Academy of Sciences for the improvement of science and math education in secondary schools, has submitted a major proposal for funding to the National Science Foundation. A response on that application should be forthcoming in about six months. Mr. Adams also alluded to the possibility of solving the Center's space needs through the benevolence of a donor's purchase of the Capitol Hill buildings of the National Museum of African Art and subsequent donation of the properties to the National Academy for the use of the Center (excepting, in all probability, the Frederick Douglass house).

OTHER MATTERS

Discussing a variety of other matters, Mr. Adams alluded briefly to a series of communications between the Smithsonian and the State Department concerning the Institution' flexibility of arranging for the international exchange of scholars in countries not enjoying favorable relations with the United States. He also mentioned that a broadly based advisory committee had recently met and raised some fundamental questions about the effectiveness of the research at the Radiation Biology Laboratory of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; accordingly, alternatives for the future of that Laboratory are continuing to be explored. The Secretary drew the Regents' attention to an impending study by the Postal Rate Commission on the