Results for "Science -- History"
- SI History Bibliography
The View From the Castle: The Bicentennial celebration, our national 'rite of passage,' is getting under way full steam at the Institution and elsewhere
- Date: July 1975 19th century
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- SI History Bibliography
The View From the Castle: A supermuseum encompassing 3,500 years of Greek civilization would meet today's need for international cultural education
- Date: March 1973
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- SI History Bibliography
The View From the Castle: The time has come for the United States to join the Western World in using the metric system of weights and measures
- Date: September 1972
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- SI History Bibliography
The View From the Castle: Our Festival of American Folklife on the Mall will be even bigger this year, and bigger still as we look towards 1976
- Date: June 1974
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- SI History Bibliography
The View From the Castle: After 62 years the Radiation Biology Laboratory has moved out of the cellars and into the light, but for how long?
- Date: January, 1971
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- SI History Bibliography
The View From the Castle: Foundations play an important role, but as partners with government, they could play it much more effectively than at present
- Date: January 1973
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- SI History Bibliography
The View From the Castle: A chance to study the arduous migration of birds over the Himalayas calls to mind some obstacles to modern travel
- Date: December 1973
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- SI History Bibliography
The View From the Castle: The growing trend among zoos to become breeding farms for endangered species may save animals--as well as zoos themselves
- Date: May 1974
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- SI History Bibliography
The View From the Castle: Environmentalists call for an end to dealing in live animals, but we must keep a place for zoos and their animal-breeding facilities
- Date: February 1975
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- SI History Bibliography
The View From the Castle: Too often there's little fun in school; but education has many facets, such as museums, that can make learning a joyous process
- Date: June 1971
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- SI History Bibliography
The View From the Castle: A new role for ethnologists: to study the ways in which tribal peoples are responding to life as it is today
- Date: November 1971
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- SI History Bibliography
The View From the Castle: Despite stultifying rules, instant experts and minor gurus and oracles, the Stockholm conference was surprisingly productive
- Date: August 1972
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001