history of printing. The papers of Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings, John D. MacDonald, Margaret Dreier Robins,
and a partial collection of the papers of Zora Neal
Hurston are preserved together with important Caribbean
research materials such as the "Rochambeau Papers,"
the "Jeremie Papers," and the Medina Latin American
Bibliographical Collection.
 The P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History, consisting
 of manuscripts, maps, books, ephemera, prints,
 photographs, and microfilm, forms the- most complete
 research collection of Floridiana available. Its Spanish
 Florida Borderlands Collection of more than 1% million
 documents in microform is the largest United States
 Borderlands collection for any geographical area in the
 nation.
 'The main reference and bibliographic collection,
 through which access is provided to computerized
 databases, basic bibliographies, abstracting and index-
 ing services, and catalogues of other libraries, is located
 on the first floor of Library West.

 MONOGRAPH SERIES
 The Graduate School sponsors two monograph series
 devoted to the publication of research primarily by
 present and former members of the scholarly community
 of the University. The Social Sciences Monographs are
 published each year with subject drawn from anthro-
 pology, economics, history, political science, sociology
 education, geography, law, and psychology. The Hu-
 manities Monographs are published each year with sub-
 jects drawn from art, language and literature, music,
 philosophy, and religion.


 FLORIDA STATE MUSEUM
 The Florida State Museum was created by an act of
 the Legislature in 1917 as a department of the Univer-
 sity of Florida. Through its affiliation with the University,
 it carries dual responsibility as the State Museum of
 Florida and the University Museum.
 The Museum is located at the corner of Museum Road
 and Newell Drive in a modern facility completed in 1970.
 The public halls are open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Mon-
 day through Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m. on Sundays. The
 Museum is closed on Christmas Day. There is no admis-
 sion charge.
 The Museum operates as a center of research in
 anthropology and natural history. Its accessory functions
 as an educational arm of the University are carried for-
 ward through interpretive displays and scientific publica-
 tions. Under the administrative control of the director
 are the three departments of the Museum: Natural
 Sciences, staffed by scientists and technicians concerned
 with the study and expansion of the research collections
 of animals; Anthropology, whose staff members are con-
 cerned with the study of historic and prehistoric people
 and their cultures; Interpretation, staffed by specialists
 in the interpretation of knowledge through museum
 exhibit techniques and education programs. Members
 of the scientific and educational staff of the Museum hold
 dual appointments in appropriate teaching departments.
Through these appointments, they participate in both
undergraduate and graduate teaching programs.
 The Allyn Museum of Entomology, Sarasota, is part of
the Department of Natural Sciences of the Florida State
Museum. The combined Sarasota and Gainesville
holdings in Lepidoptera rank the Allyn Museum of
Entomology as the largest in the western hemisphere and


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 the premier Lepidoptera research center in the world.
 The Allyn Museum publishes the Bulletin of the Allyn
 Museum of Entomology and sponsors the Karl Jordan
 Medal. The Allyn Collection serves as a major source for
 taxonomic and biogeographic research by a number of
 Florida State Museum and Department of Zoology faculty
 and students, as well as a great many visiting entomolo-
 gists from around the world.
 The herbarium of the University of Florida is also a part
 of the Florida State Museum. It contains over 150,000
 specimens of vascular plants and 170,000 specimens of
 nonvascular plants. In addition, the herbarium operates
 a modern gas chromatographic/mass spectrometer
 laboratory for the study and identification of natural plant
 products.
 The research collections are under the care of curators
 who encourage the scientific study of the Museum's
 holdings. Materials are constantly being added to the col-
 lections both through gifts from friends and as a result
 of research activities of the Museum staff. The archaeo-
 logical and ethnological collections are noteworthy.
 There are extensive study collections of birds, mammals,
 mollusks, reptiles, amphibians, fish, invertebrate and
 vertebrate fossils, and a bioacoustic archive consisting
 of original recordings of animal sounds. Opportunities
 are provided for students, staff, and visiting scientists to
 use the collections. Research and field work are presently
 sponsored in the archaeological, paleontological, and
 zoological fields. Students interested in these specialties
 should make application to the appropriate teaching
 department. Graduate assistantships are available in the
 Museum in areas emphasized in its research programs.

 UNIVERSITY PRESSES OF FLORIDA
 The University of Florida is host to the State Univer-
 sity System's scholarly publishing facility. University
 Presses of Florida. The goals of the systemwide publishing
 program implemented by University Presses of Florida
 are expressed in Board of Regents' policy:
 ... to publish books, monographs, journals, and
 other types of scholarly or creative works. The Press
 shall give special attention to works of distinguished
 scholarship in academic areas of particular interest
 and usefulness to the citizens of Florida. The Press
 shall publish original works by state university faculty
 members, but it may also publish meritorious works
 originating elsewhere and may republish out-of-print
 works.
 Each university's faculty publishing committee is inde-
pendently responsible for selecting works for publication
through the facilities of University Presses of Florida. At
the University of Florida, the University Press Board of
Managers oversees the locally determined publishing
program.
 The purpose of the University of Florida Press is to
encourage, seek out, and publish original and scholarly
manuscripts which will aid in developing the University
as a recognized center of research and scholarship. In
addition to its broad range of state, regional, and Latin
American titles, the Press publishes books of general
interest and five separate series in Floridiana, geron-
tology, humanities, Latin American studies, and social
sciences.
 The University of Florida Press Board of Managers, 15
scholars appointed by the president of the University,
determines policies of publication relating to the ac-
ceptance or rejection of manuscripts and the issuance
of author contracts. Each year the board examines
numerous manuscripts submitted not only by the Univer-