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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Beryl Simpson

      • Date: May 30, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Phylogeneticist Dr. Beryl Simpson, formerly curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, received the 2010 José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany for her contributions to the field and 3 decades of mentoring future botanists. #Groundbreaker

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      Celebrating Women’s History Month with #HerNaturalHistory

      • Date: March 7, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: This month, we invite you to follow along as we participate in the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Her Natural History campaign to highlight women natural scientists in our collections. And don’t forget to head to the Smithsonian Transcription Center to help us transcribe notes from women working in the field.

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    5. Brassia caudata (Orchidaceae) watercolor by Regina O. Hughes, c. 1980, National Museum of Natural History, Catalog of Botanical Illustrations, Plate # 641.

      “Angels Can Do No More”: Regina Hughes’ Contributions as a Botanical Illustrator

      • Date: March 10, 2016
      • Description: This post discusses the contributions of Regina Hughes, a botanical illustrator, to the National Museum of Natural History.

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    7. Mary F. Miller’s handwriting on a document that lists all of the Vermont Mosses she collected in 1904.

      Mary Farnham Miller, A Lifelong Botanist

      • Date: August 17, 2021
      • Description: Learn more about botanist Mary Farnham Miller who held positions in the Sullivant Moss Society and the Smithsonian’s Department of Botany in the early twentieth century.

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      Flickr Commons: Summertime Set from the Field Book Project

      • Date: June 26, 2012
      • Creator: Susannah Wells
      • Description: To ring in the summer months, the Field Book Project contributed a set of grasses and other plants photographed by Brazilian botanist, André Goeldi.

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      Margaret Sordahl, Collecting Flora and Fauna at a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Station

      • Date: December 2, 2021
      • Description: We’re taking a glimpse into the work and life of Margaret Sordahl and other women at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory stations around the world.

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    13. Embracing the Crowd

      • Date: April 15, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: When I started working with museums in 2005, the concept of crowdsourcing was in its infancy. That year, James Surowiecki ‘s book, “The Wisdom of Crowds,” was published and there were tiny experiments in crowdsourcing occurring in the cultural heritage sector. There were hesitations and objections about the whole concept within the GLAM (gallery, library, archive, museum)

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    15. Berlandier Fish (Pimelodus maculatus), Record Unit 7052 - Jean Louis Berlandier Papers, Box 12, Folder 14, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Jean Louis Berlandier: The Path from Geneva to Mexico

      • Date: June 5, 2014
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: A brief narrative on Jean Louis Berlandier, a French naturalist, and one of the first scientists to observe, collect , and document the natural history specimens of southeastern Texas and northeastern Mexico.

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      Research at the Archives: Finding Grasses for the South

      • Date: May 26, 2011
      • Description: As a postdoctoral fellow at the National Museum of American History, I’ve spent months in the Smithsonian Institution Archives researching a book tentatively titled, Not Naturally a Grass Country: Environment, Plant Genetics, and the Quest for Agricultural Modernization in the Humid World. It’s largely a story about global attempts to replace one form of agriculture—the

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      Mary Vaux Walcott’s Wild Flowers

      • Date: March 26, 2015
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: In the 1920s, Mary Vaux Walcott published five volumes of her wildflower drawings and donated the proceeds to the Smithsonian.

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