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This accession consists of correspondence documenting Association of Systematics Collections (ASC) activities; publications; newsletters; records related to the ASC Council, workshops, and grant opportunities promoted by ASC; files concerning projects; records documenting relations between ASC and sister organizations; and membership records.

Box 1 of 8

Correspondence 1984-1990, re: publications produced by ASC, grants involving ASC, pledges of support to ASC

• Checklist of Vertebrate Contract Modifications 1982-1983
• Checklists
• ASC/CEE Agreement 1/87; d-base management of species Checklist
• Turt/Croc W. King
• CITES Contract (2 folders)
• WCH-ASC Agreements
• Allen Press
• Allen Press Joint Venture 1987 Accounting
• Mammal Society Agreement
• Allen Press Mammal Species of the World
• Mammal Species-2nd Edition ASC/ASM/AP Terms of Reference
• Pest Control
• S 2952 Native American Cultural Presentation/ Repatriation 1989-90
• Native American Responses to Survey
• Senate Bill S. 2952 ASC's Response 9 86-87
• Society Pledge Responses
• AOU Proposal-Bird Checklist
• Nicholson/Edwards Correspondence 1984-85; Treasure's Correspondence
• Grant Proposals Unfunded: HERP Species NSF; PEW proposal

Box 2 of 8

ASC Newsletters

• ASC Newsletter Volumes 1-8 1973-1980
• ASC Newsletter Volumes 9-16 1981-1988
• The Washington Initiative Vols. 1 (1) to 4

Box 3 of 8

Set of ASC publications, up to 1991-books and pamphlets

• SEE: appendix A

Box 4 of 8

ASC Council activities, workshops, and grant opportunities (NSF, NIH, IMS, Hudson Foundation) 1987-1992

• ASC Council on Collections-Change/Memembership list
• ASC Council on Collections- corresp with council
• Long-term Ecol. Research
• Tissue Collections
• Orphaned collections
• ASC Council on Collections-vouchers
• Directory of Collections
• ASC Council-Culture, etc. collections
• ASC Council on Collections- Higher Plants
• ASC Council on Collections-Change/Memembership
• SPNHC
• ASC Computer Workshop I May '92
• Computerization of Natural History Collections Workshop III Nov. '92
• CIMI
• CIMI Project
• AAM: July 1991
• Keystone
• Hudson River Foundation
• NIH
• NIH Master Aggreement Appl. National Cancer Institute (AIDS)
• EMAP-EPA
• IMS
• NSF ad hoc committee on environmental research 1989
• NSF Miscellaneous information
• NSF Board on Biodiversity
• NSF Board 1987
• NSF Research Centers-ideas-notes
• NSF budget
• NSF budget 1990

Box 5 of 8

Papers Related to CITES, Endangered Species Act, ASC's Checklist of Amphibians, 1988-1992

• CITES correspondence S. Edwards
• CITES 1987
• CITES/Nomenclature
• HR 1467 (ESARC)
• Endagered Species Act Reauthorization Committee
• Endagered Species
• ASC's Checklist of Amphibians (?)
• Biology: Current Trends in the Biological Sciences vol.1 no. 1-4 1983

Box 6 of 8

Relations with ASC's sister organizations (AAM, AIBS, AAAS, TANSI, IMS, Smithsonian), papers related to the ICSEB IV conference and ASC's workshop, legislative issues (1987-1988)

• ICSEB
• ICSEB early notes and minutes
• ASC annual meeting notes
• ASC annual meeting participants correspondence lists
• 1989 ASC annual meeting
• ASC Instit. and Society attendees
• Annual meeting 1990
• Appropriations 1989Land and Water Conservation Fund
• HR 3497: Global Change Research 1987
• HR 3010 Tropical Forrest Protection Act 1987
• HR 22104 and 1046: TBT Testimony 1987
• S 970 Modif. of Plants Alternate Agricultural Products Research Act 1987
• S 2068 Marine Resarch Act 1988
• HR 2290 and 970 Lyme Disease and Tropical Medicine 1989
• S 1302 Basic Science Research and Student Assist 1987
• S 1076 1990 Environmental Education Act
• S 1950 and 2114 Education 1990
• HR 1704 Forrest Debt Swap Porter 1989
• HR 3154 1989
• Science and Technology Priorities Hearing Mar. 2, 1989
• Toxic Substance Control Act Ammendments 1988
• Postal Regulation Etiol. Agents 1988
• HR 4818National Park/ Samoa 1988
• HR 1905 University Research Facilities
• Annual meeting 1988
• 1988 May 11 Board Meeting
• 1988 Annual meeting General Correspondence
• Fall (Oct.) '88 Board meeting
• [untitled]
• 1988 meeting
• [untitled]
• Smithsonian Latin American Workshop
• IMS 1989-90
• IMS 1988
• Institute of Museum Services (IMS) 1987-88
• AAAS
• AIBS Feb 21-22, 1981 Council Meeting
• AIBS Meeting 1986-88
• AIBS 1990-91 Supplement
• AIBS Agenda materials
• AAM
• AAM
• From Steve
• MAP and MAP II

Box 7 of 8

ASC Membership records, 1972-c. 1987, membership application and correspondence, documents forwarded to ASC from the member institution

• Membership
• Academy of Natural Sciences
• Agriculture Canada Research Branch
• American Museum of Natural History
• Arkansas State University
• American Type Culture Collection
• Beltsville Area Formerly: The Beltsville Agricultural Resource Center
• Bernice P. Bishop Museum
• British Columbia Provincial museum
• Buffalo Museum of Science
• Cleveland Museum of Natural History
• Cornell University
• Cranbrook Institute
• Denver Museum of Natural History
• Duke
• Field museum of Natural History
• Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainsville
• Fort Hays Kansas State College
• Califonia Academy of Sciences
• Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
• Harvard University
• Illinois natural history Survey
• Illinois State Museum
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
• Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
• Louisiana State University, Shreeveport
• McGill University
• Miami University, Oxford , Ohio
• Michigan State University
• Milwakee Public Museum
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• Moore laboratory
• Museo De Paleontologia, Instituto De Geologia U. N. A. M.
• National Museum of Natural History
• National Museum of Natural Sciences, Canada
• New York Botanical Garden
• New York State Museum and Science Service
• North Carolina State Museum of Natural History
• North Carolina State University
• Ohio State University
• Pennsylvania State University
• Purdue University
• Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
• Royal Ontario Museum
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Box 8 of 8

Contituation of box 7, includes files of discontinued memberships

• Miscellaneous membership applications
• Southern Methodist University
• Texas A&M University
• Texas Memorial Museum
• National Fish and Wildlife Laboratory
• University of Alaska
• University of California, Berkely
• University of California, Davis
• University of California, San Diego
• University of Florida
• University of Georgia Museum of Natural History
• University of Illinois
• University of Iowa
• Directory-University of Kansas
• University of Louisville, KY
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• University of Minnesota
• University of Nebraka, Lincoln
• University of Oklahoma
• University of Texas, El Paso
• University of Puget Sound
• University of Washington (Thomas Burke Memorial St. Museum)
• University of Wisconsin
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Washington State University
• Yale University (Peabody Museum of Natural History)
• AAZN
• American Ornothologists Union
• American Byrological and Lichenological Society
• American Byrological and Lichenological Society--Ballots March 5, 1981
• American Arachnological Society
• American Malacological Union
• American Society for Microbiology
• American Society for Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
• American Society of Mammalogists
• American Society of Parasitologists
• American Society of Plant Taxonomists
• Biological Society of Washington
• Coleopterists Society
• Entomological Society of America
• Herpetologists League
• The Mycological Society of America
• North American Benthological Society
• Paleontological Research Institution
• Wsociety of Nematologists, Inc.
• Society of Systematic Zoology
• US Federation for Culture Collection
• Dues Election Sheets