Results for "Botanical specimens"

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   Flickr Commons: Summertime Set from the Field Book Project

   • Date: June 26, 2012
   • Creator: Susannah Wells
   • Description: To ring in the summer months, the Field Book Project contributed a set of grasses and other plants photographed by Brazilian botanist, André Goeldi.

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   “Angels Can Do No More”: Regina Hughes’ Contributions as a Botanical Illustrator

   • Date: March 10, 2016
   • Description: This post discusses the contributions of Regina Hughes, a botanical illustrator, to the National Museum of Natural History.

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   Sneak Peek 9/2/2013

   • Date: September 2, 2013
   • Creator: Marguerite Roby
   • Description: Botanical and entomological specimens from collections at the National Museum of Natural History.

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   Jean Louis Berlandier: The Path from Geneva to Mexico

   • Date: June 5, 2014
   • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
   • Description: A brief narrative on Jean Louis Berlandier, a French naturalist, and one of the first scientists to observe, collect , and document the natural history specimens of southeastern Texas and northeastern Mexico.

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   Flattened Between the Pages

   • Date: July 2, 2013
   • Description: Memorable illustrations, photographs, and plant and animal specimens found pressed between the pages from the Field Book Project.

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    Link Love: 3/21/2014

    • Date: March 21, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    Hidden in Plain Sight: Reading Between the Lines with the Smithsonian Transcription Center Volunteers

    • Date: February 24, 2015
    • Description: As Smithsonian Transcription Center volunteers unlock the stories from the Archives’ collections, we find ways to share the work of women in science hidden in the digitized pages.

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    The Life Work of Smillie

    • Date: July 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: There is a remarkable figure in the Smithsonian’s history that doesn’t get much of the spotlight; Thomas W. Smillie. He served as the Smithsonian’s first official photographer from 1870 until his death in 1917, and additionally became the Smithsonian’s first photography curator in 1896. Smillie amassed a collection of photographic equipment starting with the purchase of the

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    Sandved and his Snapshots

    • Date: April 4, 2013
    • Description: Kjell Bloch Sandved worked as a photographer for the National Musuem of Natural History for 32 years and his Photographic Files captured the Museum’s staff at work in 1975.

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    Television and the Smithsonian: Worldly Success

    • Date: December 18, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: For six seasons, beginning in 1984, the television series Smithsonian World opened new windows on the research and scientists at the Smithsonian Institution.

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    Conference Round-up: the Archives at AIC Houston

    • Date: June 5, 2018
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: As we teased earlier this spring in our Facebook Live event, last week Senior Conservator Nora Lockshin and I traveled to Houston, Texas, to share our work with conservation colleagues at the 46th annual meeting of the American Institute of Conservation (AIC). Our contributions centered around work with the Field Book Project, as did our Facebook Live.Another successful

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    The Fate of the National Institute

    • Date: July 27, 2017
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that before the Smithsonian existed, there were two other institutions created for the promotion of science and diffusion of knowledge? Exploring the fate of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science.

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