Description: [View in English]Nació en Las Anonas, cerca de San José, Costa Rica. Zeledón, el hijo de una familia distinguida, en que las dotes intelectuales y el amor por la educación eran caracteristicas peculiares. Su padre, don Manuel Zeledón, fué gobernador del distrito de San José por treinta años, y era un hombre de gran integridad. Desde su niñez, José estuvo interesado en aves, y
Description: As editor E. E. Slosson began setting up the Science Service news office, his mail was flooded with inquiries from potential contributors. Writers and photographers described their accomplishments and submitted samples of their work. One such letter, from Albert Harlingue on April 13, 1921, must have piqued Slosson’s interest, for it coincided with the Washington visit of “a
Description: The Smithsonian Institution has long been known for both its original research and its exhibitions. But, it was not until 1980 that the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) first exhibited an on-going active research project, the world's first indoor living coral reef.[edan-image:id=siris_sic_7411,size=450,center]In the late 1960s, when NMNH paleobiologist Walter H. Adey