Program Records
This accession consists of records that document the administrative activities of the Smithsonian Institution's Biodiversity Program (BDP) as maintained by Marsha E. Sitnik, Scientific Program Administrator. Some of the projects and programs represented in the files include the BIOLAT (Biological Diversity in Tropical Latin America) program; the BDFF (Biological Dynamics …
Melbourne Armstrong Carriker Papers
This accession consists of records documenting the travels and family of Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, ornithologist and entomologist specializing in bird lice. His association with the Smithsonian Institution began in 1940, when he collected birds in Vera Cruz, Mexico, for the United States National Museum (USNM). From 1941 to 1952, Carriker conducted collecting expeditions …
Alfred C. Glassell Oral History Interviews
The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program …
Gates, Howard E., 1930-1931. Mostly concerns Gates's collecting expeditions in Mexico; includes correspondence between Gates, Berry, and several government agencies regarding prohibitions against shipping live specimens from Mexico to California.
- Level:
- file
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7335
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
"Expedition Panama," Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Scientific American Frontiers, Episode #801, October 1997, DVD (electronic records)
- Level:
- file
- Collection ID:
- Accession 14-271
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
"Expedition Panama," Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Scientific American Frontiers, Episode #801, October 1997, VHS (2 copies)
- Level:
- file
- Collection ID:
- Accession 14-271
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
David B. Dill, Jr., Papers
This accession consists of 31 photographs taken at Barro Colorado Island in 1930 by David B. Dill, Sr., during his scientific expedition to Panama. David B. Dill, Jr., joined his father on the trip. Materials also include typewritten excerpts from the younger Dill's letters written home to his mother and sister. The …
"Expedition Panama: Science at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute," Scientific American Frontiers, October 8, 1997
- Level:
- file
- Collection ID:
- Accession 12-068
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
"Expedition Panama," Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Scientific American Frontiers, Episode #801, October 1997, VHS
- Level:
- file
- Collection ID:
- Accession 13-244
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Records
These records, for the most part, document the history of the collection of the United States National Herbarium (USNH), United States National Museum, Division of Plants, while William Ralph Maxon was aid, assistant curator, associate curator, and curator of the USNH, Division of Plants (1899-1946). This material includes loose incoming and …
