Results for "Naturalists"
- SI History Bibliography
Notes on a Young Naturalist
- Date: March 1980
- Creator: Zochert, Donald
- Creator: Zochert, Donald
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Spencer Fullerton Baird
- Date: November 20, 2017
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9654,size=225,left]Spencer Fullerton Baird was a visionary and can be rightfully credited as a co-creator of the Megatherium Club. Through his position as Assistant Secretary at the Smithsonian, and then Secretary in 1878, Baird corresponded with many of the great naturalists and explorers of his time, in hopes that they would help build the
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SIA Acc. 09-241, Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States, Records, 1955-2002
- Date: 1955 1955-2002
- Creator: Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- SI History Bibliography
Audubon: Influences on an American Naturalist
- Date: 1984
- Creator: Deiss, William A
- Creator: Deiss, William A
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Edward Drinker Cope
- Date: November 20, 2017
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_391590,size=250,left]Edward Drinker Cope, a paleontologist and a “very hard worker with a very good head” offered a great deal of findings to the Smithsonian and the world of science. Fellow Megatherium Club member Robert Kennicott notes in his letter “Folks at Home” that Cope is, “…bound to be one of the first naturalists of the age,” stating that
- SI History Bibliography
Elliott Coues: Naturalist and Frontier Historian
- Date: 1981
- Creator: Cutright, Paul Russell,Brodhead, Michael J
- Creator: Cutright, Paul Russell,Brodhead, Michael J
- SI History Bibliography
Martha Maxwell, Rocky Mountain Naturalist
- Date: 1986
- Creator: Benson, Maxine
- Creator: Benson, Maxine
- SI History Bibliography
Graceanna Lewis: Portrait of a Quaker Naturalist
- Date: 1985
- Creator: Bonta, Marcia Myers
- Creator: Bonta, Marcia Myers
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SIA Acc. 10-092, Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States, Records, 1955-2009
- Date: 1955 1955-2009
- Creator: Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Naturalist of the Americas: Alexander Wetmore
- Date: April 18, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_6874,size=185,left]Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and avian paleontologist, was the Smithsonian's sixth Secretary (1945-1952). As a young biologist with the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey, Wetmore conducted extensive fieldwork in Latin America. He spent 1911 in Puerto Rico studying bird life, and later traveled through South
Found in the Archives: The Trail of a Naturalist Pirate
- Date: September 19, 2017
- Creator: Jessica Lavin
- Description: Barbeque. Doughboy. Free trade. Pumple-nose. Smugglers. Cortan. Crockadore. Chopsticks. William Dampier, the 17th century explorer turned privateer/pirate, is credited with introducing these words, and more than 1,000 others, into the English vernacular. He was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe three times, and created the first detailed record of Australian Flora
- SI History Bibliography
Xantus, Hungarian Naturalist in the Pioneer West
- Date: 1949
- Creator: Madden, Henry Miller
- Creator: Madden, Henry Miller