Chesapeake Bay Center Renamed
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PrintThe Chesapeake Bay Center for Field Biology (CBCFB) is renamed the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies (CBCES) and placed under the administration of the newly created Office of Environmental Sciences. The center on 700 acres of land is located seven miles south of Annapolis, Maryland, on property called Java Farm bequeathed to the Smithsonian Institution in 1962 by Robert Lee Forest. It is later renamed the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Guide to Smithsonian Archives. Archives and Special Collections of the Smithsonian Institution Number 4. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983, p. 148.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
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