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Summary

The article features the Museum Support Center, created by Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, designed to store and preserve the growing collection of the Institution. The equipment of the center is briefly described along with Ripley's second major project of a Collections Policy and Management Committee.

Subject

  • Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Museum Support Center

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Contained within

The Torch (Newspaper)

Contact information

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

Date

February 1984

Topic

  • Secretaries
  • Successful people
  • Retirement

Physical description

A Special Supplement to the Smithsonian Torch, pp. S4

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