Results for "Biological specimens -- Collection and preservation"
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 14-028, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Biological Survey Unit, Correspondence, 1933-1999
- Date: 1933 1933-1999
- Creator: Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. Biological Survey Unit
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Webpage
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Date: April 14, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC)
- Date: February 10, 2022
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Learn more about the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center and the impact this unit had in the study of marine science worldwide.
- Webpage
Naturalist of the Americas: Alexander Wetmore
- Date: April 18, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_6874,size=185,left]Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and avian paleontologist, was the Smithsonian's sixth Secretary (1945-1952). As a young biologist with the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey, Wetmore conducted extensive fieldwork in Latin America. He spent 1911 in Puerto Rico studying bird life, and later traveled through South
- Blog Post
Biodiversity Illustrated
- Date: June 30, 2011
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: While the Smithsonian Institution is perhaps better known for its museums that pepper the landscape of the National Mall in Washington DC, its devotion to scientific research easily matches its dedication to collecting, preserving, and displaying artifacts of cultural and historical importance. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) started off as a small field
- Webpage
Alexander Wetmore, 1886-1978
- Date: April 14, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 19-198, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, Records, 1982-2018
- Date: 1982 1982-2018
- Creator: Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Field Book
Sand-Johnston, October 1966-August 1968
- Date: 1967 19670414 19670905
- Creator: Bulmer, Walter, 1942-
- SI History Bibliography
Working at Water's Edge: Life Sciences at American Marine Stations, 1880-1930
- Date: 2014
- Creator: Muka, Samanthat K
- Creator: Muka, Samanthat K
- Historic Pictures
National Museum of Natural History
- Date: April 18, 2011
- Description: Natural history specimens and ethnographic artifacts were among the earliest collections of the US National Museum. In 1910, the National Museum of Natural History building opened to showcase these collections. Wings were added in the 1960s, and a collections storage facility in Maryland opened in 1983 to help house the National Museum of Natural History’s 126 million objects.
- Field Book
Southern Island Cruise 5, June-July 1964
- Date: 1964 19640711 19640718
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program
- Finding Aid
SIA RU007171, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Bird and Mammal Laboratories, Records, circa 1885-1971
- Date: 1885 1885-1971 circa 1885-1971
- Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Bird and Mammal Laboratories
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives