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Link Foundation, gift for support of special publications dealing with aviation 



and the Smithsonian Institution Collections. 

 Michigan Mineralogical Society, gift to defray travel expenses of Dr. George 

 S. Switzer to attend the annual meeting of the Michigan Mineralogical 

 Society. 

 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, grants for support of the Satel- 

 lite Tracking Program ; astronomical telescope studies. 

 National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foun- 

 dation, grant for the "Acquisition of the Beyer Tektite Collection." 

 National Aviation Club, grant for the purpose of purchasing the C. G. B. Stuart 



Aviation Book Collection. 

 National Geographic Society, grant to help defray expenses in connection with 

 the underwater archeological expedition to Port Royal, Jamaica, under the 

 auspices of the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution. 

 National Geographic Society, additional grant for the continuation of a joint 

 study by the National Geographic Society and Smithsonian Institution on the 

 hoatzin. 

 National Geographic Society, additional grant to cover the preparation of 

 technical drawings of fishes for illustration in the report on the collection of 

 fishes made during the Arnhem Land Expedition. 

 National Science P^'ouudatiou, for support of research entitled "Early Tertiary 



Mammals of North America." 

 National Science Foundation, for the support of research entitled "A Monograph 



of the Lichen Genus Parmelia." 

 National Science Foundation, grant for the support of research entitled "Be- 

 havior Patterns of Certain Tropical American Carnivores." 

 National Science Foundation, additional grant for support of research entitled 



"Metabolic Aspects of the Digestion of Wax." 

 National Science Foundation, additional grant for support of research entitled 



"A Monograph of Fresh- Water Calanoid Copepoda." 

 National Science Foundation, grant to assist in defraying expenses of Dr. Wil- 

 liam C. Sturtevant while attending the Sixth International Congress of 

 Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences held in Paris, France. 

 National Science Foundation, grant for support of research entitled "The Flora 



of Fiji" ; for research entitled "Economic System of the Herrero." 

 National Science Foundation, grant for support of research entitled "Mammals 



of the Southeastern United States." 

 National Science Foundation, grant for partial support of publication for 

 "Classification and Multiplicity of Growth Layers in the Branches of Trees" 

 by Glock, Studhalter, and Agerter. 

 National Science Foundation, grant to assist in defraying expenses of travel 

 of Dr. George S. Switzer to Zurich, Switzerland for the purpose of attending 

 the meeting of the International Mineralogical Association. 

 National Science Foundation, additional grant for the support of research en- 

 titled "Morphology and Paleoecology of Permian Brachiopods." 

 National Science Foundation, additional grant for the support of research en- 

 titled "Comparative Analysis of Behavior in Tropical Birds." 

 Naticmal Science Foundation, additional grant for the support of research en- 

 titled "Taxonomy of the Bamboos." 

 National Science Foundation, additional grant for the support of research en- 

 titled "Monograph of the Cassiduloidea" ; support of research entitled "Studies 

 of World-Wide Fungus Order Ustilaginales." 

 National Science Foundation, additional grant for research entitled "A 

 Taxonomic Study of the Phanerogams of Colombia. 



