Results for "Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)"
- Document
09-16-04_heye_biography.pdf
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 12-107, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Records, 1910-2011
- Date: 1910 1910-2011
- Creator: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 01-043, National Zoological Park (U.S.) Office of the Director, Foreign Zoological Parks and Aquariums Files, 1978-1994
- Date: 1978 1978-1994
- Creator: National Zoological Park. Office of the Director
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA RU007294, Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States, Records, 1893-1980 and undated
- Date: 1893 1893-1980 1893-1980 and undated
- Creator: Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States.
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
James Smithson at Oxford
- Date: September 12, 2011
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_6861,size=300,right] Some students look forward eagerly to the new school year; others dread the end of summer and the long year ahead. How did the Smithsonian’s founding donor, James Smithson (1765-1829), feel about school? Smithson attended Oxford University in England from 1782 to 1786, receiving a Masters of Arts degree in chemistry and mineralogy.
- Finding Aid
SIA RU007149, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Records, 1926-1976
- Date: 1926 1926-1976
- Creator: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
James Macie Changes His Name to Smithson
- Date: February 16, 1801
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 13-216, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Information Technology and Society, Curatorial Records, 1949-2009
- Date: 1949 1949-2009
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Division of Information Technology and Society
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Hayden Survey Group, 1877
- Date: 1877
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- Webpage
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
- Date: November 27, 2017
- 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
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 15-217, Joseph Henry Papers Project, Depository Files, 1960-2008
- Date: 1960 1960-2008
- Creator: Joseph Henry Papers Project
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Webpage
The Hungerfords
- Date: August 5, 2021
- Description: When James Smithson claimed in his will that “the best blood of England” ran through his veins, he was referring primarily to his family connection to the medieval Hungerfords.1 The Hungerfords were royal companions and powerful politicians in their heyday, and this good fortune managed to endure for centuries before dwindling away. Their family estates, passed down in some
