Description: Fish specimens in jars at the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC), June 6, 1979, by Richard Hofmeister, SIA RU000371, 79-7303-16A.
Description: Diving consultant Joseph Libbey, who taught and certified Smithsonian curators, technicians, and specialists as divers in connection to their work, by Richard Hofmeister, SIA RU000371, 79-10744-25.
Description: While the Smithsonian Institution is perhaps better known for its museums that pepper the landscape of the National Mall in Washington DC, its devotion to scientific research easily matches its dedication to collecting, preserving, and displaying artifacts of cultural and historical importance. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) started off as a small field
Description: Naval Captain and computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper and mathematician Jeanne LaDuke attend "Women Pioneers in Mathematics" meeting at National Museum of American History, SIA Acc. 11-009, 81-11284-06.
Description: Dr. Brian C. Bock, a visiting scientist at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, holds a salamander found near Pipeline Road in Gamboa, Panama, 86-2458.