Talbot Resigns as Director, NMNH
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PrintFrank H. Talbot, director of the National Museum of Natural History since January 1989, will take a one year sabbatical and will not return to his position when it is over. Talbot, a marine biologist, will continue his field research on fish ecology and coral reefs in Townsville, Australia. Donald J. Ortner, curator of the Department of Anthropology, is named acting director effective February 1, 1994.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, "The Torch," January 1994, p. 1.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
January 30, 1994
Washington (D.C.)