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Edwin A. Link, additional gift foi; the support of the Marine Archeological 



Project. 

 Link Foundation, additional gift for the support of special publications dealing 



with aviation and the Smithsonian Institution Collections. 

 McDermott Foundation, gift to purchase a telescope which will be loaned in- 

 definitely to the Dallas Moonwatch Team. 

 Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation, grant to cover expenses relating to the 

 shipment of the White Tigress from India to the National Zoological Park. 

 Mitch Miller Foundation, grant for the support of research entitled "Ecology 



and Morphology of the Hoatzin." 

 Mrs, George Maurice Morris, gift to establish the Miriam H. Morris Fund. 

 National Academy of Sciences, travel grants for J. F. Gates Clarke, William 

 Stem, S. H. Reisenberg, and H. G. Diegnan to attend the Tenth Pacific 

 Science congress. 

 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, additional grants for the sup- 

 port of the Satellite Tracking Program. 

 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, additional grants for the 



support of astronomical research studies. 

 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, additional grant for the acquisi- 

 tion of the "Beyer Tektite Collection." 

 National Geographic Society, grant for Paleo-Indian investigations at Agate 



Basin, Eastern Wyoming. 

 National Institute of Health, grant toward the purchase of the Melander Collec- 

 tion of Diptera. 

 National Science Foundation : 



Grant for research entitled "Obsidian Dating." 



Additional grant for research entitled 'Oldest Fossil Bryozoa of the United 



States." 

 Additional grant for research entitled "Comparative Analysis of Behavior in 



Tropical Birds." 

 Additional grant for research entitled "Morphology and Paleoecology of 



Permian Brachiopods." 

 Additional grant for research entitled "Endocrine Basis of Parasitic Breeding 



in Birds." 

 Additional grant for research entitled "Metabolic Aspects of the Digestion of 



Wax." 

 Additional grant for research entitled "Taxonomic Study of the Phanerogams 



of Colombia." 

 Grant for research entitled "Permo-Triassic Reptiles of South Africa." 

 Grant for partial support for the "Preparation and Publication of Supple- 

 ment to Annotated Bibliography of Termites, 1955-1960." 

 Grant for research entitled "A Revision of the Beetles of the Genus Neobrotica 



Jacoby." 

 Additional grant for research entitled "Systematics of Chilopoda and 



Diplopoda." 

 Additional grant for research entitled "Revisionary Study of the Blattoidea." 

 Additional grant for research entitled "Systematic Studies of South American 



Microlepidoptera." 

 Additional grant for research entitled "Early Tertiary Mammals of North 



America." 

 Grant for research entitled "Construction of Highly Sensitive Mass Spectro- 

 meter for analyzing Rare Gases in Meteorites." 

 Grant for research entitled "Culture History of South Arabia." 



