W L Schmitt on NSF Trip to Antarctica

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Summary

As biological consultant of the National Science Foundation, Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, former Curator of Marine Invertebrates and now honorary research associate, National Museum of Natural History, joins an expedition to the Palmer Peninsula, Antarctica, to survey sites for a possible station in the area. During the survey, Schmitt collected over 29,000 specimens, which were added to the collections of the National Museum of Natural History. In recognition of his contributions to the United States Antarctic Research Program, the Board of Geographic Names designated a 30 mile ice-covered series of outcrops at the base of the Antarctic Peninsula as the Schmitt Mesa.

Subject

  • Schmitt, Waldo L (Waldo Lasalle) 1887-1977
  • National Science Foundation
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1963. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1964, p. 46.

Contact information

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

Date

November, 1962

Topic

  • Discovery and exploration
  • Scientific expeditions
  • Field Stations
  • Interagency Cooperation

Place

  • Antarctica
  • Polar regions

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