Subject Files
This accession consists of the administrative records from the office of David Challinor, former Assistant Secretary for Science, 1970-1984, and Assistant Secretary for Research, 1985-1987. The records consist mostly of correspondence pertaining to the Scientific Encounters Project, Quadrangle Project, grants, Aldabra and Rennell Island (in the Pacific), and the Research Council Committee …
Subject Files
This accession consists of correspondence to and from the Assistant Secretary for Research; office memoranda to and from the Smithsonian Institution Secretary and other heads of various departments at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH); research reports and proposals; annual reports; budget proposals; audit reports; minutes from various committee …
Subject Files
This accession consists of reports, five-year plans, researches, and development plans of the bureaus under the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research. Also included are photographs of the Fred C. Whipple Observatory, architectural plans for Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and books on butterflies and fishes.
Budget Records
This accession consists primarily of budget files for bureaus under the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research for fiscal year 1988. Also included are files of the Research Opportunities Fund for fiscal year 1987, including correspondence, memoranda, budgets, and reports.
Grant Records
This accession consists of research grant records administered by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research. Grant programs include the Research Opportunity Fund (ROF), the Scholarly Studies Program (SSP), and the Seidell Fund.
Subject Files
This accession consists of records pertaining to offices reporting to the Assistant Secretary for Research as well as includes materials regarding projects funded by the Scholarly Studies Program.
Charles Darwin Foundation Records
This accession consists of records documenting the administration and activities of the Charles Darwin Foundation.
Budget Records
This accession consists of records pertaining to budget planning, requisitions to Congress on budgetary formulations, and priorities for distributing funds to the museums. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, congressional budget submissions (narrative), federal budget requests, trust fund information, employment plan worksheets, and Senate hearing materials.
Records
These records document the operation of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research, which is responsible for overseeing the Institution's research activities in its various museums, the National Zoological Park, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Records include budget and …
Records
These records consist primarily of administrative files of the Assistant Secretary for Research, 1987-1990, documenting his responsibility for the National Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of Natural History, the National Zoological Park, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the Smithsonian Institution Archives, the Office of Fellowships …
