Description: Dr. Margaret S. Collins became a renowned expert in multiple areas of termite zoololgy during her almost 50-year career as a scientist and professor.
Description: Spring edition! British Library is digitizing the last surviving play script by William Shakespeare pleading for the humane treatment of refugees. [via The Guardian]Why Ben Franklin would hang out at libraries today. [via the Atlantic]Wall of Birds, a new interactive from artist Jane Kim and Cornell Lab ornithologists. A local wins the National Portrait Gallery's 2016 Outwin
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="419" caption="Sculpture on pedestals outside the National Collection of Fine Arts, now the National Museum of American Art, Exhibition Hall in the Natural History Building, October 1964, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 313 Box 48 Folder 3, Negative Number:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="A Junior League docent explains exhibits in The Hall of Gems and Minerals, National Museum of Natural History, to visiting school children, 1950s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder 44, Negative Number: MNH 142-A."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="President Ronald Reagan addresses party-goers assembled in the Rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History's at the Inaugural Ball in January 1981, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 59A, Folder 11, Negative Number: 81-754-23."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="293" caption="A narrow section, done in wood, of the of south front of new National Museum building, the Natural History Building, erected by the superintendent of construction, The Old Post Office is in the background on the left, 1904, by Unidentified photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 79, Box 9, Folder 4,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="358" caption="Print of the original architectural drawing for the new National Museum of Natural History's location on the National Mall, c. 1903, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 92, Box CGMC, Folder Building Series 4, Book 400-470, NMNH, Negative Number: SIA2009-2367."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="Daniel Stanley, Curator of Sedimentology, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, watching a videotape of the ocean bottom of Wilmington Canyon, On the screen is a penetrometer, which shows the bottom consistency, 1969, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="A Junior League docent explains exhibits in The Hall of Gems and Minerals, National Museum of Natural History, to visiting school children, 1950s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder 44, Negative Number: MNH 142-A."][/caption]
Description: Traditionally, when families gather for end-of-the-year holiday events, reminiscences are shared, new photos and videos get made, and/or old snapshots, home movies, and memories resurface. And while most family narratives are revisited in intimate settings, around kitchen tables or in living rooms, a handful may reach broader audiences, through one set of circumstances or
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="On a collecting trip to the White Sands, New Mexico, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur) Cooper (1902-2000), paleobiologist at the National Museum of Natural History, stands beside his car, used in the field, nicknamed the "Scarlet Harlot," 1973, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
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