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    1. Dr. Herbert C. Clark at the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Panama City, Panama

      Dr. Herbert C. Clark at the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Panama City, Panama

      • Date: April 7, 1948
      • Creator: Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
      • Creator: Wetmore, Alexander 1886-

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      Inter-American Cooperation

      • Date: April 18, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_7144,size=200,right]During construction of the Panama Canal at the start of the century, many laborers died of malaria and yellow fever. To find ways to control the diseases, North American biologists came to the isthmus of Panama. Some of these scientists were so impressed by the diversity of the natural environment that they later

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      Carlos de la Torre y la Huerta

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_arc_296726,size=200,left]Carlos de la Torre y la Huerta was the foremost Cuban naturalist of his era, following in the footsteps of Felipe Poey. De la Torre was a naturalist of the old school, with broad interests in natural history. He focused his research on mollusks, both living and paleontological specimens. He collaborated for many

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      Maria do Carmo Bandeira

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish]Doña María do Carmo Bandeira was a botanist with the Jardim Botanico de Rio de Janeiro, specializing on mosses. She served on the editorial board of its Arquivos do Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro. In the late 1920s, she established a correspondence with Mary Agnes Chase, curator of grasses in the U.S. National Museum. They exchanged plant specimens and

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      Jesse Walter Fewkes

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_arc_290975,size=200,left]Born in Newton, Massachusetts, his scientific career is divided into two distinct research fields and time periods. The first deals with marine zoology and the last with anthropology. Fewkes received a Ph.D. in marine zoology from Harvard in 1877, and was curator of lower invertebrates at the Museum of Comparative

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      Exchanging Ideas and Specimens

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish]International exchange has always been a major part of the Smithsonian's mission. To acquire publications from leading scientific societies, Secretary Henry offered in exchange the journal, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Henry and assistant secretary Baird also distributed publications from U.S. colleges, museums, scientific societies, and scientists

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      An International Exploring Expedition

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish]The first international scientific expedition sponsored by the United States circumnavigated the globe between 1838 and 1842, gathering natural history collections so vast they were estimated to weigh 40 tons. The U.S. Congress resolved to preserve these artifacts "collected at the expense of the government...Information about the first international

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      Alexander Wetmore

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_6874,size=185,left]Alexander Wetmore was the sixth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He developed an early interest in natural history and published his first paper on birds at the age of thirteen. He received a B.S. from the University of Kansas (1912) and and M.S. and Ph. D. from George Washington University (1916 &

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      William and Lucile Mann

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9793,size=200,left] William and Lucile Mann forged a natural history career together, combining his skills as a scientist and institution builder with her skills as a writer and publicist.William Mann ran away from his Helena, Montana, home as a child to join the circus. John Ringling discouraged his interests and advised him to pursue

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      Island Voyagers: Caribbean Archaeology and Natural History

      • Date: April 18, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish] Smithsonian scientists have a long history of collaborative research in the Caribbean. In 1914 a Smithsonian expedition traveled to western Cuba and the Colorados reefs to study land and marine geology, flora, and fauna. John Brooks Henderson, a member of the Smithsonian's Board of Regents, had collected marine mollusks in southern Florida and wanted a

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      William Henry Holmes

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish]Born near Cadiz, Ohio, in the year the Smithsonian was founded, 1846, Holmes's life was intimately tied to the institution from the time he was twenty-five until his retirement in 1932 when he was 86.He began work as an artist drawing specimens for a number of naturalists in the employ of Spencer Fullerton Baird, then Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian

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      Mary Agnes Chase

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9227,size=200,left]The foremost grass specialist of her time ended her formal education after grammar school. She began collecting and illustrating plants in her twenties, and was hired by Chicago's Field Museum in 1901 and later as a botanical illustrator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Scientific illustration was a way for

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