W. Duane Hope, Natural History Curator

Summary

In his office in the northwest corner of the Natural History Building, W. Duane Hope of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, holds a slide from a specimen in the collection. On the table are a microscope and a drawing of a specimen. His research focused on the systematics, comparative and functional ultrastructure, and phylogenetics of marine nematode worms.

Subject

• Hope, W. Duane 1935-
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

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 additional photos of W. Duane Hope, see Negatives SIA2013-03973 through SIA2013-03980.

Contained within

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

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, [email protected]

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Date

1975

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Zoology
• Employees
• Museums
• Microscope slides
• Equipment
• Optical instruments
• Scientific apparatus and instruments
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Nematodes
• Specimens
• Microscopes
• Worms
• Microscopy--Equipment and supplies
• Photographs
• Research--Equipment and supplies
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees
• Zoologists
• Museum curators

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

• Person, candid
• Slide

ID Number

SIA2013-03980

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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