Envelope with Neoregelia carolinae Stamps
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ID: SIA RU000371 [96-928]
Creator: Unknown
Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1977
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: December 1977, Image No. 96-928
Caption from Torch: "Imagine the surprise of MNH Botanist Emeritus Lyman Smith when, clearing his in-box one November day, he took out the correspondence pictured above. It was his name that appeared on the first-day cover of a beautiful bromeliad which Smith reclassified in 1939. He was unaware that Brazil planned to issue the 1.30 cruzeiro stamp. The plant was originally identified and named by Beer in 1857, but Smith corrected the genus and renamed the plant Neoregelia carolinae. Although the Latin names of plants have appeared on stamps before, this is the first time the scientists' names have been printed. Below the image are the stamp designer and engraving office."
Featured in the "Torch," December 1977.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: December 1977, Image No. 96-928
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
1977
Brazil
Black-and-white photographs
SIA RU000371 [96-928]
Gelatin silver prints; 8 x 10;