Site of Proposed Marine Biological Laboratory

Summary

View of the undeveloped ground for the proposed Marine Biological Laboratory in Panama City, Panama. The bay can be seen in the background.

Subject

• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
• Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1923-1924

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

• Scientists are on the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone. Smithsonian staff were in Panama with the Institute for Research in Tropical America, a group of private foundations and universities under the auspices of the National Research Council, who first established a research laboratory on Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone, now known as the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, in order to investigate the flora and fauna of tropical America.
• Albert S. Hitchcock was a botanist with the United States Agriculture Department's Bureau of Plant Industry and Honorary Curator of Grasses at the United States National Herbarium at the Smithsonian. The negative number #1089 is Hitchcock's negative number. The original photograph is located in Hitchcock's travel album.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 29, Box 19, Folder: Volume 2 nos. 782-1118

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

c. 1923-1924

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Panama City (Panama)
• Landscapes

Place

• Panama, Bay of (Panama)
• Panama

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Landscape

ID Number

SIA2010-0713 orHitchcock #1089

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 6.25w x 4.25h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print

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