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Summary

The Barro Colorado Island Biological Laboratory officially opens. More than thirty scientists from the United States work at the island laboratory during its first year of operation. The laboratory will later come under Smithsonian Institution aegis as the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

Subject

  • Barro Colorado Island Biological Laboratory
  • Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Hagen, Joel B. Problems in the Institutionalization of Tropical Biology: The Case of the Barro Colorado Island Biological Laboratory. History and Philosophy of Life Science, 12 (1990), 225-247, p. 230.

Contact information

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

Date

March 29, 1924

Topic

  • Rain forest ecology
  • New Bureaus

Place

  • Panama
  • Barro Colorado Island (Panama)

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