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Record Unit 108
Assistant Secretary for Science,
Records,
1963-1973


Historical Note

Descriptive Entry

Series Descriptions

  Series 1. GENERAL SUBJECT FILES, 1966-1971

  Series 2. GENERAL SUBJECT FILES, 1966-1972

  Series 3. COUNTRY FILES, 1964-1971

  Series 4. GENERAL SUBJECT FILES, 1963-1972

  Series 5. RECORDS, 1966-1973

  Series 6. TAPES, 1968-1969



HISTORICAL NOTE

The first person named Assistant Secretary for Science was Thomas Dale Stewart in 1964, although many of the functions of the office had previously been handled by one of the Assistant Secretaries. Sidney R. Galler was named to the position in 1965, and in 1971 David Challinor became Assistant Secretary for Science.

The Assistant Secretary for Science served as the administrative link between the Secretary and the following Smithsonian bureaus: Center for the Study of Man, the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies, National Air and Space Museum, National Museum of Natural History, National Zoological Park, Office of Environmental Sciences, Radiation Biology Laboratory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Smithsonian Science Information Exchange, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.


DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY

The records are arranged in four alphabetic subject files, overlapping in dates and subject matter. The files were probably segments of one general file which was weeded and separated as records became noncurrent.


SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

SERIES 1.
GENERAL SUBJECT FILES, 1966-1971

Box 1 of 26

Box 2 of 26

Box 3 of 26

Box 4 of 26

Box 5 of 26

Box 6 of 26

Box 7 of 26

SERIES 2.
GENERAL SUBJECT FILES, 1966-1972

Box 7 of 26

BUREAU FILES AS FOLLOWS:

Box 8 of 26

Box 9 of 26

Box 10 of 26

END OF BUREAU FILES

Box 11 of 26

SERIES 3.
COUNTRY FILES, 1964-1971

Box 11 of 26

Box 12 of 26

SERIES 4.
GENERAL SUBJECT FILES, 1963-1972

Box 12 of 26

Box 13 of 26

BUREAU FILES AS FOLLOWS:

Box 14 of 26

END OF BUREAU FILES

Box 15 of 26

SERIES 5.
RECORDS, 1966-1973

Box 15 of 26

Box 16 of 26

Bureaus in SI reporting to the Assistant Secretary for Science:

Box 17 of 26

Box 18 of 26

Box 19 of 26

Committees:

Box 20 of 26

Councils:

Box 21 of 26

Box 22 of 26

Box 23 of 26

Box 24 of 26

Box 25 of 26

Box 26 of 26

SERIES 6.
TAPES, 1968-1969

Box 26 of 26

Lecture O.N.R.


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