Dr. Richard E. Grant in Etching Lab

Summary

• In the Natural History Building in an acid-etching lab where the fossils are removed from the rock matrix , Dr. Richard E. Grant has his hand on a rock containing Brachiopod fossil remains. He is wearing a protective apron and glasses. A bottle containing an acid solution sits on a table. There is a frame holding the rock which will lower it into an acid bath.
• Brachiopoda are marine invertebrates and have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces. The shell has two valves of unequal size enclosing an armlike lophophore used for feeding, and often have delicate appendages. They include many extinct species commonly found as fossils and are called lampshells.
• Richard E. Grant (1927-1995) was an invertebrate paleontologist and authority on Permian Brachiopods. He served as Curator, Chairman, and Senior Geologist in the Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History from 1972 until his death. He was most famous for studying Brachiopods of the Permian period.

Subject

• Grant, Richard E
• Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Paleobiology Division of Invertebrate Paleontology
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Paleobiology
• Department of Paleobiology (NMNH) Division of Invertebrate Paleontology
• Laboratory of Fossil Invertebrates (NMNH)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

• Kjell Bloch Sandved of the Office of Exhibits, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), at the commission of Porter Kier, then Director, NMNH, prepared these photographic materials to document personnel and activities of NMNH in 1975.
• For other images of Richard E. Grant, see Negatives SIA2013-03944 through SIA2013-03954.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95-013, Box 1, Folder: 1: A-Kier

Contact information

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

Date

1975

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Laboratories
• Employees
• Museums
• Paleontology
• Fossils
• Science rooms and equipment
• Marine Biology
• Marine invertebrates
• Animals
• Equipment
• Paleontologists
• Scientific apparatus and instruments
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Brachiopods
• Marine animals
• Museum curators
• Research--Equipment and supplies
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

• Person, candid
• Slide

ID Number

SIA2013-03945

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 1w x 1 3.7h; Type of Image: Person, candid ; Medium: Slide

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