Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="251" caption="Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1846-1878), and his wife, Harriet Henry, and their daughters Caroline, Helen and Mary with croquet mallets on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution Building, c.
Description: While Lucile Mann’s contributions to zoological history have often been reduced to her work raising infant animals, her work with the National Zoo and resulting publications demonstrate that her legacy should be reexamined.
Description: In honor of the anniversary of the discovery of x-rays, a look inside the Foucault pendulum that used to hang at the National Museum of American History.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="James 'Jim' Mello, Assistant Director of the National Museum of Natural History, sitting at a demonstration loom in the National Museum of American History's Textiles Hall, 1983, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 4, Negative Number:
Description: Wired Science has great coverage of our recent “Field Book Lantern Slides” Flickr Commons set, complete with more information from the Smithsonian’s Thomas Jorstad, who works in the paleontology department at the National Museum of Natural History. Yeek! A Dust Archive (for real!) [via Marguerite Roby, SIA].
Description: Dr. Michèle Gates Moresi, Supervisory Curator of Collections, Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, oversaw the acquisition of nearly 37,000 collection objects for the new museum. #Groundbreaker
Description: In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Museum Computer Network, this first blog explores the early interactions of MCN with the Smithsonian.
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