Stan Rand in the Field
Close
Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintID: SIA2011-0032
Creator:
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: June 1996
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9579, Box 1, Folder Stan Rand Oral History
A. Stanley Rand in Panama on the Old Gamboa Road. He is holding equipment to capture the sound of frogs and there is a small frog sitting on the microphone in his hand. Rand a herpetologist began his work at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in 1964 and retired in 1998.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
A. Stanley Rand (1932-2005), was a herpetologist specializing in frog communication. In 1964, Rand was appointed a Biologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama. From 1974 to 1979, he served as Assistant Director at STRI, and in 1979 was named Senior Biologist.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9579, Box 1, Folder Stan Rand Oral History
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
June 1996
No restrictions
Panama
SIA2011-0032
Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 6w x 4h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print