January
May 21 Ceremony Held to Create Edward P. Henderson Meteorite Fund
Year:
1974
Month:
may
Day:
21
Date:
Tue, 1974-05-21
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A signing ceremony is held in the Secretary's Parlor to establish the Edward P. Henderson Meteorite Fund. The fund, named in honor of the benefactor, a curator emeritus of the National Museum of Natural History, is the SI's first large endowment specifically designed for the study of meteorites in the history of the Smithsonian. Henderson came to the Smithsonian in 1929, after ten years as a United States Geological Survey chemist.