January
Eighth Secretary S. Dillon Ripley Takes Office
Year:
1964
Month:
february
Day:
1
Date:
Sat, 1964-02-01
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S. Dillon Ripley takes office as the eighth Smithsonian Secretary and serves until 1984. Ripley, an ornithologist, had been a professor of biology at Yale University and director of its Peabody Museum of Natural History.