Results for "Eggs"

     
    Showing results 1 - 12 of 30 for Eggs
    1. Blog Post

      Once and For All, the Chicken or the Egg?

      • Date: April 23, 2011
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

    2.  
    3. United States Fish Commission (USFC) Staff Member Monitors McDonald Hatching Jars

      Sneak Peek 4/15/2019

      • Date: April 15, 2019
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: United States Fish Commission (USFC) staff member monitors McDonald hatching jars for the hatching of buoyant fish eggs at USFC research station, circa 1880s, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-5611.

    4.  
    5. A fence built by an unknown insect to protect its nest of eggs, by Troy Alexander, Tambopata Research Center.

      Link Love: 9/6/2013

      • Date: September 6, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

    6.  
    7. Photograph album page, black paper with five black and white photographs of plants and a spider specimen.

      Thanks for the specimens, J. Bruce Bredin!

      • Date: October 11, 2018
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: This philanthropist’s passion for research and adventure inspired him to join a series of collecting expeditions with the Smithsonian in the 1950s.

    8.  
    9. quatic microscope made by John Cuff of London, around 1750. National Museum of American History, cat. MG*M-09898.

      Link Love: 5/15/2015

      • Date: May 15, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

    10.  
    11. The mystery hairs, November 1, 2013, by Andrea Hall, Accession 12-320 - Edward William Nelson Field Notes, 1869-1886, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Porcupine, Deer, or Other? A Field Book Mystery

      • Date: November 12, 2013
      • Description: Use of microscopy and collaboration with members of the Smithsonian staff helped get to the bottom of a field book mystery.

    12.  
    13. Beautiful Worms, by Wm Jas, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0 Generic.

      Mealworm Chocolate Chip Cookies, Anyone?

      • Date: September 1, 2011
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Earlier this year, I blogged about a recipe for “Elephant Skin and Ivory” (a black and white tinted candy) that I found in the 1984 National Museum of Natural History Docent Cookbook. Well, while researching the history of the same museum’s Insect Zoo for my recent blog post, I came across another recipe that I'd like to share—mealworm chocolate chip cookies.This recipe

    14.  
    15. Blog Post

      There will always be a photography

      • Date: July 14, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="303" caption="Photographer holding large folding camera, by unidentified photographer, c. 1935, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Archives Center."][/caption] Recently photography has said goodbye to two industry icons. Polaroid stopped production of its instant film, and Kodak announced that it is

    16.  
    17. Blog Post

      Science Service, Up Close: Telephone Books, Wax Turkeys, and Talking Chickens

      • Date: March 8, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Exhibits, Margaret Jane Russell Roller (1888-1973) had begun to specialize in fabricating lifelike wax models of food and animals.

    18.  
    19. Secretary Ripley stands beside the model and children climb around on top.

      The Dino Detours of Uncle Beazley

      • Date: June 8, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Before Uncle Beazley, the popular life-size model of a triceratops, made its way to its final destination at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, he stopped at a couple other destinations around the Institution.

    20.  
    21. Illustration that takes up the whole page of Megarhinus septentrionalis.

      Dr. Evelyn G. Mitchell

      • Date: April 7, 2020
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Discover the life and career of an early public health heroine.

    22.  
    23. Barn owls, named 'Increase' and 'Diffusion,' living in the West Tower.

      Residents of a Different Feather

      • Date: April 24, 2012
      • Description: History of the many barn owls who have lived in the towers of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or "Castle."

    24.  
    Showing results 1 - 12 of 30 for Eggs

    Pages