Description: Jeannine Smith Clark began forty seven years of involvement with the Smithsonian working as a volunteer docent at the National Museum of Natural History in 1968. Since then, she has served on the influential Smithsonian Women’s Committee and was appointed to the Board of Regents, where she served from 1983 to 1994. Jeannine Smith Clark worked with the Smithsonian for 47 years
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_391590,size=250,left]Edward Drinker Cope, a paleontologist and a “very hard worker with a very good head” offered a great deal of findings to the Smithsonian and the world of science. Fellow Megatherium Club member Robert Kennicott notes in his letter “Folks at Home” that Cope is, “…bound to be one of the first naturalists of the age,” stating that
Description: [view in English][edan-image:id=siris_sic_6874,size=185,left]Alexander Wetmore, Sexto Secretario del Smithsonian, se interesó desde muy joven en la historia natural y publicó su primer trabajo sobre aves a los trece años. Recibió su B.S.de la Universidad de Kansas (1912) y su Maestría y Doctorado de la Universidad de George Washington (1916 & 1920).En 1924 Wetmore entró al