MUSEUM PROGRAMS AND RELATED RESEARCH
F. PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
1. Smithsonian Institution,Officeof Inter- nationalActivities.
Subtotal, estimateprogramdevelop- ment andadministration.
Total, 1st priority or ongoing re- search.
60,000
Todefray costsofinspectionandauditof fieldresearch 1970 i20 000 sitesandcostscfnegotiation with hostgovernments 1969 15,'000 onprogram operations—costswhichincreaseinstep 1969 10,000 with the increasingnumbersof active grants.
20,000
2,975,000
II.SECOND PRIORITY OR PENDING RESEARCH A.ARCHEOLOGY ANDRELATED
DISCIPLINES
1. UniversityMuseum,UniversityofPenn- sylvania.
2. UniversityofWashington.
3. UniversityofWisconsin...
4.SmithsonianInstitution, Office ofAnthro- pology.
5.American Institute of Indian Studies AmericanAcademyofBenares.
6.Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Natural History.
7. New York University; Columbia Uni- versity; UniversityofMichigan.
8.AmericanMuseumofNatural History
9. Smithsonian Institution, Office ofAn- thropology.
Subtotal, estimateforpendingarche- ologicalresearch
Toexcavate the protohistoricofKantarodai, Ceylon,to 1970 40,000 determinethe natureandchronologyofsettlement
andrelationswith southIndia.
Tostudy the Byzanto-Slavic cultureofmedievalBargala inYugoslavia.
Tostudyandfilmthe rapidly disappearingDhangars/
Bangars, the seminomadic shepherds of Maha- rashtraState, India.
Tostudy the rapidly disappearingcrafts at village level inIndia.
To survey andinitiateexcavationofculturalsitesofthe Pratihara period especiallyatBhinmaiinRajasthan, India.
To survey anddocumentthearthistory ofTibetonthe basisofobjects currently beingbroughttoIndiaand Nepalby Tibetan refugees.
Toexcavate ancient Utica, Tunisia, employinginter- disciplinary techniques designedto describe fully themode oflifeand environmentcharacteristicof successive cultures inhabiting thesite.
To initiate archeological excavations togetherwith 1970 30,000 the ArcheologicalSurveyofIndia with special pro-
visionforthe trainingofAmericansinthe archeology ofSouth Asia,todayan arealargely neglectedby U.S.scholarship.
To initiate systematiccollections of Indian folk art 1970 26,000 which is disappearing as village crafts yield to
urbantechnology.
1970 34,000 1970 40,000
1970 50,000 1970 50,000
1970 30,000
1970 50,000
350,000 See footnote atendoftable.
886
Recipient Project
Estimated Year request
B SYSTEMATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY
1. DukeUniversity
—
2. UniversityofCaliforniaatDavis.
3.Smithsonian Institution, Office of
Ecology. .
4.SouthernMethodist University
5 Smithsonian Institution. Office of Oceanographv and Limnology.
6.Johns HopkinsUniversity 7. AmericanUniversityinCairo
8.Smithsonian Institution, Office of Ecology.
9 Smithsonian Institution, Division of Invertebrate Paleontology.
10. UniversityofMichigan.
11.UniversityofUtah
12.SmithsonianInstitution, Office of Ecology.
13. Smithsonianinstitution, Office of Ecology.
To conductfieldstudiesinplanttaxonomy andecology inthe stateofAssam,India.
Tostudy thetaxonomy anddistributionofthe poorly known microscopic marine fauna of the Bay of Bengal onthe basisofcollections ofmarine sedi- ments fromthe coastal regionofEast Pakistan.
Tostudy the ecologyandbehaviorofhooved animals in ateak forestinIndia.
To undertake a definitive studyof Quaternary age deposits on thefloorand lowerslopesofthe Qattara Depressioninthewesterndesertof F-gypt- Tocollectand conduct taxonomicstudiesofthemarine
faunaofWestPakistan's continentalshelf.
To completestudiesofthe population ecologyofrhesus monkeysinnorthern India.
Tostudyin Egypt the migration ofmarine biota be- tweentheRed Sea andtheMediterranean through theSuezCanal.
To conductstudiesofthe patternandbehaviorofbirds during migration in the Himalayan Mountains ot northern IndiaandNepal.
TostudyinIndia the broadly distributedfossilostracod whichrevealsthroughitsvaried physicalappearance muchaboutthe climateand geographyofthe geologic erainwhichitlives.
Tostudy thesnail,carrierofthe disease, bilharziasis inthenewly formedreservoirsandcanals associated with theAswan DaminEgypt
To collect the may fliesof Pakistan for taxonomic studies asapartofspecializedworldwidestudiesot
thisspecies. , ,
..
To investigate the plant ecology of the Laccadive Islandsof Indiain cooperationwith the Botanical Survey of India and to obtain a duplicate set ot specimens fortheresearch collectionsof the U.b.
NationalMuseum.
Tocollect forthe U.S. NationalMuseumandstudy the flora ofthe long neglected areasofIndia particularly the Malabar and theCoromandel Coast., and the Nilehiri and Khasia Hills—areas which served as sources of materials for classic botanical studies madeaslongagoas the17th centuryandbadly in needof revision.
Subtotal, estimateforpendingbio-
logicalresearch -
E INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
1970 30,000 1970 20,000
1970 40,000 1970 50,000
1970 70,000 1970 10,000 1970 40,000
1970 i20,000
1970 i45,000
1970 i40,000
1970 110,000
1970 i30,000
1970 l70,000
475,000
1. SmithsonianInstitution T° SU
°P^
S°/°Ce3n'h^^
969mentalpublicationsexchangedby the uniteaMates iaoj andthe excess currency countriesaccordingtopro- visionsofintergovernmentalagreement.
Subtotal, estimate international exchangeof scientificpublications.
F.PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
1. SmithsonianInstitution, Office of Inter- To defaycostsof
ijsP^r^l^hl^VifnSpmmVnte
nationalActivities. sitesandcostsofnegotiation with hostgovernments on program operations
—
costs which increase instep'with the increasingnumbersofactive grants.
1970
Subtotal, estimate for program development andadministration.
Total,2dpriorityorpendingresearch
Seefootnote atendof table.
M5,000
15,000
15,000
i5,000
5,000
845,000
887
III.3dPRIORITY ORNEW RESEARCH
Recipient Project°'ecl v Estimated
Year request
1970 1970
30,000 25,000 1970 20,000 1970 40,000 1970 40,000 1970 30,000 1970 40,000
230,000 A.ARCHEOLOGY AND RELATED
DISCIPLINES
1.Southern MethodistUniversity Tostudy prehistoric industriesandsettlement patterns 1970 $5 000
, ,, .. ..... . , mthe centralNegev,Israel.
2.UniversityofCalifornia, LosAngeles.... To excavateIslamic archeologicalsitesinWestPakistan d. Brandeis University... To survey western Phoenician archeological sites in"
.... , Morocco.
4. UniversityofMichigan To conductresearchand excavationsintothemiddle
c , ,. ... ., Paleolithicofnorthern Bosnia.
5.Indiana University.. Toexcavate atAenona (modern Nin),Yugoslavia,a r inet;t„*Qf„, a^ jo» j- o. Romanand medievalcity builtonaprehistoricsite.
6. Institute for Advanced Studies, Stan- To conductinvestigationsinthe archeologyof historical
toiq university. Indis.
7. ColumbiaPennsylvaniaUniversity; University of To conducttraits of traditionalethnohistorical researchlifeinmodernintoIndia.the historyof 8. UniversityofWashington. To conduct investigations into the chalcolithic and
earlycivilization ofIndia.
Subtotal,estimatefornewarcheo- logicalresearch.
B.SYSTEMATICAND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY
1. UniversityofMontana To conductpilotstudiesofthe behaviorandecologyof 1970 110000 the wild boarinWest Pakistan—alittlestudied animal
which isnevertheless considered asignificantagri-
o m-u- o . cultural pest.
2.Michigan State University Toinitiatelong-term studiesofthebioticproductivity 1970 115000 ofanatural forestandlargemammalcommunityin
NeDal 3'Sm
Mt!
1
^L
ac 'nstit " ti0"' Mediterranean To conveneasymposiuminTunisiatoreview progress 1970 110000 MarineSorting Center. and set objectives for forthcoming research on, _ ., meiofauna.
4.SmithsonianInstitution, Office ofEcology To study theecology and behavior of ungulatesin 1970 115000 Ceylonese forests—astudy supplementarytostudies
oftheCeyloneseelephant, vegetation,etc.,inaseries ofecologicalstudieswhich formapatternforother
K _ .. worldareas.
Frni s n
° n u
'an lnstltutlon
- 0ffice of Toassist intheplanningand conductofasymposium 1970 i20 00n
tC0l0gy- inIndiaonnatural resource conservationproblems
intropicalenvironments in collaborationwiththe InternationalUnionforthe ConservationofNature
c c ... , • and Natural Resources.
b. bmitnsonianentomology,Institution,Departmentof Tostudy the biosystematicsofthe insectsofCeylonas 1970 125000 apartofthemodel programofecological studiesof
7 .. . thattropical island.
/. universityofGeorgia Tostudy organic productivity andnutrient cycling in
tropicalecosystemsincollaboration with theHindu 1970 '20 000 Universityof Benares, India.This study hasbeen
proposed tothe nationalcommitteesfortheinter- nationalbiologicalprogramofboth the United States
o v. .. . . and India.
o. raie university To measure habitat relationships, numbers, and 1970 '10,000
distribution of wild ungulates in the Gir Forest, India— oneof a series ofecological studiesto be proposedforUnited States-IndianIBPsponsorship and to be based in this unique tropical forest preservewherethelast oftheAsianlion, of biblical
Q Q . ... fame,survives.
a.icripps nstitutton of Oceanography, To planin collaborationwiththe IndianInstituteof 1970 "20,000
Lajoiia, Calif. Oceanography periodic research cruises along a
carefully determined line of collection stations to collect sediments and marine biota and record changing marine andclimatologicaldata.
Subtotal, estimatefornewbiological research
145
m
See footnote atendoftable.
Recipient Project Year request
C.ASTROPHYSICS
1.SmithsonianAstrophysical Observatory..
2.HarvardUniversity.
3.Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary.
4.Harvard UniversityandtheSmithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
5. Harvard University and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
6.SmithsonianAstrophysical Observatory.
7.SmithsonianAstrophysical Observatory, Cambridge,Mass.
8. HarvardUniversity...
9.SmithsonianAstrophysical Observatory..
Subtotal,newastrophysical research.