SMITHSONIAN HERBARIUM NEEDS YOU.The article reports that the Washington, D.C.-based Smithsonian Institution is seeking help from American Horticultural Society (AHS) members in increasing the world's plant knowledge.EBSCO_AspAmerican Gardener
Warren Wagnerseemingly has a story for every plant specimen in theNational Museum of Natural History’sNational Herbarium. As he leafs through hundreds of pages plastered with dried Pacific Island plants, he recalls past botanical discoveries and far-flun...
museum anthropology william louis abbott in madagascar: Revisiting Archival and Museum Resources of a Smithsonian Naturalist from the 1890s Paul Michael Taylor smithsonian institution abstract This article introduces an important group of ethnographic, biological, and unpublished archival materials deriving ...
The Smithsonian Institution is a sprawling complex of museums, the national zoo and research centers based in Washington, D.C., and founded by an endowment from James Smithson.
Smithson, who died in 1829 without ever having even visited theUnited States, hadstipulatedin his will that his estate be used to create “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase anddiffusionof knowledge.” The U.S. government was notified...
The Smithsonian also maintains significant ethnographic and natural history collections, among them John Wesley Powell’s record of his research on Native Americans in Colorado; a diverse array of more than 4 million fossils; and the National Herbarium, which preserves 4.5 million plant specimens. The...
James Smithson (1765–1829) was an English scientist who provided funds for the founding of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.