Results for "Archaeological expeditions"
- SI History Bibliography
Pioneering Adventures
- Date: January-February 1986
- Creator: Bates, Lincoln
- Creator: Bates, Lincoln
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for other purposes
- Date: 1881 03/03/1881
- Creator: 46th Congress, Sess. 3, 1881
- Creator: 46th Congress, Sess. 3, 1881
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Jesse Walter Fewkes
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_arc_290975,size=200,left]Born in Newton, Massachusetts, his scientific career is divided into two distinct research fields and time periods. The first deals with marine zoology and the last with anthropology. Fewkes received a Ph.D. in marine zoology from Harvard in 1877, and was curator of lower invertebrates at the Museum of Comparative
- Field Book
China, miscellaneous lantern slides
- Date: 1904-1954 1904 1954
- Creator: Sowerby, Arthur de Carle, 1885-1954
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, and for other purposes
- Date: 1944 06/26/1943
- Creator: 78th Congress, Sess. 1, 1943
- Creator: 78th Congress, Sess. 1, 1943
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947, and for other purposes
- Date: 1947 03/28/1946
- Creator: 79th Congress, Sess. 2, 1946
- Creator: 79th Congress, Sess. 2, 1946
- Webpage
Exchanging Ideas and Specimens
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish]International exchange has always been a major part of the Smithsonian's mission. To acquire publications from leading scientific societies, Secretary Henry offered in exchange the journal, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Henry and assistant secretary Baird also distributed publications from U.S. colleges, museums, scientific societies, and scientists
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, and for other purposes
- Date: 1946 05/03/1945
- Creator: 79th Congress, Sess. 1, 1945
- Creator: 79th Congress, Sess. 1, 1945
- SI History Bibliography
The Formation of Ethnographic Collections: The Smithsonian Institution in the American Southwest
- Date: 1987
- Creator: Parezo, Nancy J
- Creator: Parezo, Nancy J
- Webpage
José Castulo Zeledón
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish]Born in Las Anonas, near San José, Costa Rica, Zeledón was the scion of a distinguished family whose intellectual gifts and love of learning were common traits. His father, don Manuel Zeledón, was governor of the district of San José for thirty years, and a man of great integrity. From earliest childhood José was interested in birds, and began serious study as
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The Smithsonian in Latin America Today
- Date: April 18, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish]Smithsonian scientific interchange with Latin America continues in the depth and breadth demonstrated by the historical record. The tradition of collegial relationships across the Americas derives new meaning from concerns over the responsible stewardship of the earth's natural resources. In Belize, the National Museum of Natural History leased a small island
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Matthew Williams Stirling
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish]Matthew Stirling's career in anthropology and archaeology was spent almost entirely at the Smithsonian Institution. Geographically, it spanned from New Guinea to the Americas, and his contributions to scholarship were equally as broad. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and The George Washington University, he was both an active field worker