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 fiscal reports, research reports and research proposals from bureaus under the Office's jurisdiction.

The records also document the work of John H. Falk, a Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Research, who also was on the staffs of the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies and the Smithsonian Office of Educational Research.

This record unit also documents the activities of the Neotropical Lowlands Research Program, known before 1981 as the Amazon Ecosystem Research Program, and its principal investigators, Clifford Evans, Jr., and W. Ronald Heyer.

Note: From inception through FY 1981, this program was entitled "Amazon Ecosystem Research Program." From FY 1982 -- present, the program was renamed "Neotropical Lowlands Research Program."

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• Amazonia Research Program (Early History)
• Amazon Ecosystems and World Wildlife Fund
• Terry L. Erwin Materials
• W. Ronald Heyer Materials
• Dr. Warwick Kerr -- INPA Materials
• Dr. Betty Meggers Materials
• James N. Norris and Mark Littler Materials
• Slud, Paul, Materials
• Thomas R. Soderstrom Materials
• Vanzolini Amazon Ecosystems
• Weitzman Materials (Stanley H. and Marilyn)
• Richard Zusi Materials
• Amazon Ecosystem -- FY 1975
• Amazon Ecosystems -- FY 1976
• Amazon Ecosystems FY 1976 Report and FY 1977 Budget Request
• Amazon Ecosystems FY 1977
• Amazon Ecosystems FY 1978
• Amazon Ecosystems FY 1978 Report and FY 1979 Budget Request
• Amazon Ecosystems FY 1979
• Amazon Ecosystems FY 1979 Report and FY 1980 Budget Request
• Amazon Ecosystems FY 1980
• Amazon Ecosystems FY 1980 Report and FY 1981 Budget Request
• Amazon Ecosystems FY 1981
• 5 Year Review, FY 1977--81: Correspondence, Background Document, Review Report
• AERP -- FY 1982
• AERP -- FY 1982 Report and FY 1983 Proposed Budget
• Neotropical Lowland Research Program -- FY 1983
• FY 1983 Annual Report, etc., and Proposed Budget FY 1984
• NLRP FY 1984
• FY 1984 Annual Report and Proposed Budget for FY 1985

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• Office of the Assistant Secretary for Science
• Fiscal Year 1984
• Neotropical Lowland Research Program
• Administrative files including:
  Annual Report, FY 1983
  Proposed budget, FY 1984
  Project records by individual investigators
• Fiscal Year 1985
• Neotropical Lowland Research Program
• Administrative files including:
  Annual Report, FY 1984
  Proposed budget, FY 1985
  Project records by individual investigators
• Neotropical Lowlands FY '86
• Erwin FY '86
• Funk FY '86
• Heyer FY '86
• Littler FY '86
• Meggers FY '86
• Norris FY '86
• Soderstrom FY '86
• Vari FY '86
• Weitzman FY '86
• Weitzman FY '85
• Vari FY'85
• Soderstrom FY '85
• Meggers FY '85
• Neotropical Lowlands 85320014
• FunkFY '85
• Heyer FY '85
• Erwin FY '85
• Soderstrom & Funk FY '84
• Norris & Littler FY '84
• Vari & Weitzman FY '84
• Meggers FY '84
• FY '84 Neotropical Lowlands 314014
• Erwin FY '84
• Heyer FY '84
• Subject File (Falk). Administration - Conservation Education Association

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• Subject File (Falk). Correspondence, 1979-1986 - Foreign Currency

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• Subject File (Falk). Fund for the improvement of Post Secondary Education - Mellon Foundation

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• Subject File (Falk). National Aquarium - Northeast Museums Conference

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• Subject File (Falk). Oregon Museum of Science and Industry - Trinidad Conference

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• Subject File (Falk). Unified Science Appreciation - Washington Counceletter
• SAIL Project files (Falk)

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• Personnel, Associates, Colleagues (Falk)

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• Lawn Research material (Falk)
• 35 mm color slides (Falk)

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• Miscellany (Falk)

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• Video cassettes (Falk)
• Miscellany (Falk)

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• Budget 1984 files
• 5 year plan, 1982-1986
• 1983 Fluid Research Requests
• 1984 Work years
• 1985 Federal and trust fund budget material

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• 1985 Budget Files

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• 1985 Federal and Trust Fund Budgets

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• 1985 Federal Budget
• 1985 Trust Budget
• 1986 Budget files

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• 1986 Budget files

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• 1986 Federal Budget
• 1986 Trust Budget
• 1987 Budget files

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• 1987 Trust Budget

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• 1987 Federal and Trust Budget