This series is the largest of the Dudley Observatory collection, containing over 800 file folders. It contains the existing records of the grants obtained and the contract work performed by the Dudley Observatory in the period 1959 to 1987. Each subseries will be described separately. This subseries consists of grant and contract proposals that were rejected by the organization applied to.
Correspondence concerning the proposal, including rejection letters, is filed with some proposals.
Arrangement of this subseries is first chronological, then by name of principal investigator and lastly by organization. 1964-1987 Standard forms, manuals, reporting procedures and other materials from the contracting or granting organization that would be applicable to all their contracts form the bulk of this subseries. Materials relating to specific grants or contracts are filed with the appropriate series. Documents from NSF, NASA and DOD are included. These two subseries contain general correspondence and vouchers that are not linked to a specific grant or contract.