Applicants for the Travel/Research Fund in the History of Natural History should submit a brief description of their project and specific funding request to the Director of Special Collections (address below). First consideration from each year's funds will be given to applications received before January 31. Expenses for which support may be requested include transportation, meals, and lodging at a comparable rate to the state of South Carolina's approved per diem. At the conclusion of the research period, grantees will be required to: submit a report on their research to the Director of Special Collections, acknowledge the assistance of the grant in any subsequent publication(s) resulting from the research, and submit a copy of the report and any resulting publications for deposit in the University Libraries Special Collections.

For further information about applying to the fund, please contact: Director of Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208; (803)-777-8154 or TCLRareBooks@gwm.sc.edu.

For more information about the natural history collections in Thomas Cooper Library, visit http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/rarebook.html

For the collections in the South Caroliniana Library, visit http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/index.html.

To donate to this fund and for additional information about donation, please contact the University Libraries Development Office at (803) 777-5564 or visit http://www.sc.edu/library/develop/cu.html.

To make a gift online, please click the "Gift Online" button located on the left side of this page or the following link https://giftsonline.sc.edu/contribute.asp

Bequests | Current Endowments and Funds | Naming Opportunities
Contact Us | Development Home Page