Results for "Lobsters"
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
Sneak Peek 3/31/2014
- Date: March 31, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Stereo view of fishing shacks on beach surrounded by lobster pots with boat in foreground, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Sneak Peek 12/12/2016
- Date: December 12, 2016
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: United States Fish Commission staff in tent on beach with U.S. flag out front and lobster pots in foreground, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, MAH-1634.
Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies
- Date: March 30, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring