Research botanist Dr. Ashley Egan, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, works with the museum's 86,000 legume specimens to understand the processes and patterns that have formed biodiversity throughout the course of evolution. #Groundbreaker

In 1935, Beloit College in Wisconsin began allowing female students to join the annual summer archeological expeditions.

Senior administrators stand next to their bicycles outside the Arts and Industries Building during an energy conservation campaign at SI, with David Challinor, Assistant Secretary for Science, Robert Angus Brooks, Under Secretary, and Wymberley Coerr, Director of International and Environmental Programs, June 3, 1974, by Richard Farrar. 

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The Smithsonian Institution Archives adopts the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).

Curator Emeritus of Archaeozoology, Dr Melinda Zeder (left), Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, studies animal bones recovered from archaeological sites to uncover key historical transitions as humans made the shift from foraging to urban dwelling.  #Groundbreaker

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Pygmy hippopotamus in mud wallow at National Zoological Park, May 1973, by Francine Schroeder.

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