Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_391596,size=250,left]Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, a geologist and original Megatheria, was an eccentric club member, according to Robert Kennicott. Hayden’s early life began in Westfield, Massachusetts on September 7, 1828. Hayden’s parents, Asa Hayden and Melinda Hawley, were a somewhat troubled pair. His father, an alcoholic, passed away when Hayden
Description: Because World War I was sure to go down in history, the curator of the History Division, Theodore T. Belote, began collecting artifacts documenting the war even before it was over. As the war wound down and soldiers started returning home, Belote and his superiors at the US National Museum worked with the War Department and contacts in the Army and the Navy to document the
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
Description: [view in English][edan-image:id=siris_sic_13396,size=200,left]Ephraim George Squier se educó a si mismo como periodista y diplomático, e hizo contribuciones sustanciales al estudio de arqueología y etnología de las Américas. Trabajó como periodista en New York y Connecticut antes de mover a Ohio. Allí se interesó en los monticulos grandes de los antiguos indios americanos.
Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9227,size=110,left]Exchanging specimens is essential in botanical research: Herbaria swap their duplicates in return for specimens they lack. Such international trading is based on relations established through correspondence and research trips, relations that endure through generations of botanists. By the early twentieth century,