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
Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9227,size=200,left]The foremost grass specialist of her time ended her formal education after grammar school. She began collecting and illustrating plants in her twenties, and was hired by Chicago's Field Museum in 1901 and later as a botanical illustrator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Scientific illustration was a way for
Description: In celebration of Preservation Week 2016, here’s a brief overview of surveys and their role in preservation, as well as a look into an audiovisual survey currently taking place right here at the Smithsonian.