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      Smithsonian Scientists at Work

      • Date: April 20, 2017
      • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==75408]Scientific research has been integral to the Smithsonian, from its founding to today. The Smithsonian's founder, Englishman James Smithson, saw in the U.S. (according to his biographer, Heather Ewing) "a place of the future" that could support "science and progress for humanity." He believed that scientists were "citizens of the world" and that the

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    3. Authority Record/EAC

      Koelz, Walter Norman

      • Date: 1895 1989

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      Agency history, 1972-

      • Date: 1972 1972-
      • Creator: Smithsonian Gardens

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    7. James Russell Dodds (left), William Martin Jeffers, (second from left), Merril Tyson (second from right), and Colonel Bradley Dewey (right)

      James Russell Dodds (left), William Martin Jeffers, (second from left), Merril Tyson (second from right), and Colonel Bradley Dewey (right)

      • Creator: Fisher, Robert E

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    9. Soviet soil scientist and geologist Vladimir Vasilievich Gemmerling, Director, Soil Department of the Fertilizer Institute, Moscow State University. He was an official delegate to the First International Congress of Soil Science, Washington, D.C., June 1927, and is shown on board an excursion boat. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-1869.

      Science Service, Up Close: A Slow Boat Down the River

      • Date: June 18, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Watson Davis photographed visiting scientists on a June 1927 Potomac River boat trip to Mount Vernon.

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      SIA Acc. T89024, United States National Museum Department of Botany, Information Files, c. 1897, 1937-1964

      • Date: 1937 1937-1964 c 1897, 1937-1964
      • Creator: United States National Museum. Department of Botany
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    13. Dried plant speciman.

      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

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    15. Blog Post

      Unity for International Migratory Bird Day

      • Date: May 10, 2018
      • Creator: Matt Peterson
      • Description: The theme of this year’s International Migratory Bird Day is unity. The Smithsonian has a longstanding history of commitment to the natural world. No figure in the Institution’s history better exemplifies the theme of unity surrounding migratory species than sixth Smithsonian Secretary and ornithologist Alexander Wetmore. He knew the importance of the role that birds play in

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    17. Authority Record/EAC

      Hayden's U. S. Geological Survey: Expedition to Colorado (1873)

      • Date: 1873 - 1873

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      Research Records, 2011-2018

      • Date: 2011 2011-2018
      • Creator: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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      S. F. (Sidney Fay) Blake Papers, c. 1880-1921

      • Date: 1880 1880-1921 c 1880-1921
      • Creator: Blake, S. F (Sidney Fay) 1892-1959

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      Link Love: 5/27/2011

      • Date: May 27, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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