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    1. Smithsonian Resident Research Associate Dr. Jorge Santiago-Blay.

      Understanding growth in insects: Dyar’s Law revisited

      • Date: March 21, 2017
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: How Smithsonian entomologist Harrison Dyar's field notes, now available on the Smithsonian Transcription Center, are improving present-day research done by Smithsonian Resident Research Associate Dr. Jorge Santiago-Blay.

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      Combining Interests: You never know what you might find at the Smithsonian Institution Archives

      • Date: January 31, 2012
      • Description: A Smithsonian Institution Archives volunteer discusses a Triceratops video collection that also relates to his work at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

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    5. A man sits at a desk on which large bones sit. An animal skeleton is hanging on the wall.

      The Mammoth Task of Creating a Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 6, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Before you head to “Deep Time,” opening this weekend at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, learn about how Smithsonian’s fossil collection was initially formed and exhibited.

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    7. Mineralogists Eugene Jarosewich, Chemist, and Roy S. Clarke, Jr., Associate Curator, examine samples from a Mexican meteorite shower for the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Record Unit 371, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 94-1533.

      Miscellaneous Mysteries of the Universe

      • Date: October 28, 2014
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: In this next edition of our Miscellaneous Adventures, choose your own adventures by diving into the folders yourself in the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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    9. Aerial photograph of the National Mall with the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt covering the four blocks west of the U.S. Capitol Building.

      Hot Topics in Archival Research, Fall 2022

      • Date: November 3, 2022
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields thousands of questions per year.

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    11. Harriman Alaska Expedition

      • Date: April 5, 2012
      • Description: A profile of the Archives' collections related to the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 which explored Alaska's flora, fauna, and geography.

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    13. Black and white photograph of a baby two-toed sloth in a basket holding the finger of its caretaker.

      A (Brief) History of Sloths at the Smithsonian

      • Date: October 20, 2020
      • Creator: Jessica Scott
      • Description: …in which a member of the Archives staff turns her passion for sloths into a mission to research their history at the Smithsonian Institution.

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      See Here: 10/11/2010

      • Date: October 11, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="The skeleton of a Hyracotherium, a tiny horse that heralded one of the major evolutionary trends of the age of mammals - the move to grazing - from the National Museum of Natural History's new exhibit "Mammals in the Limelight," opening May 30, 1985, In the background is Robert Emry, Curator of fossil mammals in the

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    17. Female peep with plaid cape standing on seashore surrounded by fossils with black cliff and blue sky.

      Link Love: 3/30/2018

      • Date: March 30, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Women's History Month edition, continued!The story of fossil seller and paleontologist Mary Anning (for whom the "She Sells Seashells" rhyme was possibly written), in Peeps. [via The Last Word on Nothing]A look at the WWI Women's Land Army composed of "farmettes" who went outside the home to address the national food shortage. [via LOC Blog]For 25 cents an hour, less than

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    19. A person stands in a room with scientific instruments. She appears to be working on an experiment.

      Smithsonian Women in Science

      • Date: September 17, 2019
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Learn how we’re creating a better record of women in science at the Smithsonian.

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    21. B&W photograph of Island with markers showing Eniwetok and Perry Islands

      Travel to the Tropics, Archives-style!

      • Date: January 30, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Travel with us to the Galapagos and the Marshall Islands as we launch some warm-weather scientific field books, diaries, and correspondence. While it’s not very wintery in Washington D.C., we’re hoping this will offer an escape to those entering the long remaining months of snow, sleet, and ice. And if you’re avoiding the cold, what a better way to spend your time than helping

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    23. Dr. Marguerite Toscano, Quaternary Marine Geoscientist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, investigates paleobiologic and paleogeologic topics focused on fossil coral reefs and mangrove deposits of the Caribbean region. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Marguerite Toscano

      • Date: June 3, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Dr. Marguerite Toscano, Quaternary Marine Geoscientist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, investigates paleobiologic and paleogeologic topics focused on fossil coral reefs and mangrove deposits of the Caribbean region. #Groundbreaker

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