Description: Lucy Hunter Baird did not shy away from her father’s towering legacy in American science, she embraced it. As the only child of Spencer Fullerton Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lucy Baird developed a passion for her father’s discipline of ornithology (the study of birds) and strove to chronicle his extraordinary life in a biography. Although she was
Description: [ view in English ][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9227,size=150,left] El intercambio de especímenes es indispensable para las investigaciones de botánica: los herbarios canjean especímenes que tienen repetidos por otros que no tienen. Este intercambio internacional se basa en relaciones entabladas por correspondencia y viajes de investigación, que se mantienen durante varias