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    SIA Acc. 06-038, History of Science Society, Editorial Manuscript Files, 1986-2003

    • Date: 1986 1986-2003
    • Creator: History of Science Society
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    SIA Acc. 14-185, Smithsonian Institution Office of Printing and Photographic Services, Audiovisual Records, 1967-1976

    • Date: 1967 1967-1976
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Printing and Photographic Services
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  5. Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Personal Equation Problem

    • Date: April 12, 2018
    • Description: The term “personal equation” came into use in the 19th century as scientists found that observers have inherent biases: some anticipate events, and some report events after they have occurred. Recognition of the problem led to a spate of personal equation instruments: some measured biases of this sort, and some reduced the effect of personal errors. Most of these

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  7. Authority Record/EAC

    Agency history, 1880-

    • Date: 1880 1880-
    • Creator: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Fishes

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    Louis R. Purnell

    • Date: August 23, 2016
    • Description: A twentieth century Renaissance man, Louis R. Purnell lived a remarkable life. His career began in the skies above Italy and Germany, where he flew 88 combat missions as an original member of the Tuskegee Airmen. After the war, while working at the National Museum of Natural History, he traveled the world’s oceans collecting marine specimens, taught himself geology and

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    Quality Assurance

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    • Spencer and Mary Baird sit in chairs and Lucy Baird stands behind her father.

      Lucy Hunter Baird: Much More Than a Devoted Daughter

      • Date: March 5, 2020
      • Description: Lucy Hunter Baird did not shy away from her father’s towering legacy in American science, she embraced it. As the only child of Spencer Fullerton Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lucy Baird developed a passion for her father’s discipline of ornithology (the study of birds) and strove to chronicle his extraordinary life in a biography. Although she was

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    • Finding Aid

      SIA RU007429, Schopf, Thomas J. M, Thomas J. M. Schopf Papers, circa 1963-1984

      • Date: 1963 1963-1984 circa 1963-1984
      • Creator: Schopf, Thomas J. M.
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      All-American Compromise

      • Date: February 16, 2017
      • Description: Laying the Foundations: Early Schools of ThoughtWith few national institutions on which to model their thinking, many Americans built their plans for the Smithsonian around the notion of a national university.The debate moved quickly from, Should we create a national university? This page describes the 1838-1846 debates about what form the Smithsonian Institution should take.

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      NSF 092403 final pdf.indd

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      • Bird head drawing by Robert Ridgway, Record Unit 7167 - Robert Ridgway Papers, circa 1850s-1919, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. SIA2014-00594b.

        Mystery Diagnosis and the Case of the Unidentified Bird Shadows

        • Date: February 4, 2014
        • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
        • Description: We need your help idenitifying what happened to these Ridgway bird illustrations that appear to have strange smoke patterns covering the images

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        SIA Acc. 05-142, Smithsonian Institution, Sound Recordings, c. 1915-1941

        • Date: 1915 1915-1941 c 1915-1941
        • Creator: Smithsonian Institution
        • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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