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National Zoological Park. Department of Biological Programs
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1994-1997, 1999
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-236
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the development and construction of the permanent exhibitions about the grasslands and prairies. Materials include memoranda, planning documents, specifications, meeting minutes, budgets, background materials, reports, and a press packet.
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National Zoological Park. Department of Biological Programs
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1996-1999
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-237
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the planning, execution, and results of the workshop "Great Apes and Humans: An Ethical Frontier." Materials include correspondence, planning documents, prospectus, agenda, notes, and photographs.
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Shindler, A. Zeno (Antonio Zeno), 1823-1899
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circa 1887
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7371
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists of four watercolor paintings of Funk Island by Shindler. The paintings were based on sketches by Captain Joseph William Collins, who led an 1887 voyage of the schooner Grampus to Funk Island, off the coast of Newfoundland, to collect skeletal remains of the Great Auk for the USNM.
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Schrammen, Anton
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1919-1920
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7406
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists of a catalog of Schrammen's collection of fossil sponges and correspondence and copies of correspondence documenting his attempt to sell the specimens to the USNM. The catalog and some of the correspondence written in German.
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Shoemaker, Clarence R.
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1899-1924
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0.65 cu. ft. (1 document box) (1 x5 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 03-027
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of glass plate negatives taken by Clarence R. Shoemaker, who has held the title of Aid, Assistant Curator, Associate Curator, and Associate in Zoology between 1911 and 1958 in the United States National Museum, Division of Marine Invertebrates. Subjects include scientists, specimens and specimen diagrams, laboratories, ...
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Sherman, John D., 1872-1960
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1886-1960
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4.5 cu. ft. (9 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7296
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist primarily of correspondence between Sherman and entomologists and other naturalists including Alexander Agassiz, William Harris Ashmead, Samuel Henshaw, Leland Ossian Howard, John Lawrence LeConte, Clinton Hart Merriam, Alpheus Spring Packard, John Bernhard Smith, Robert Evans Snodgrass, Charles Henry Tyler Townsend, ...
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Small, Gordon B., Jr.
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circa 1972-1989
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7414
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist primarily of notes, data sheets, and check lists concerning Small's research on the butterflies of Panama and the development of his collection. Also included is correspondence with colleagues, and a copy of a lecture on Panamanian butterflies. Some materials are in Spanish.
Robert Elliot Silberglied Papers
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Silberglied, Robert E., 1946-1982
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1960-1982, with related materials to 1984
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20 cu. ft. (20 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7316
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The papers of Robert E. Silberglied provide comprehensive documentation of his professional career. They include materials relating to his initial interest in entomology; his academic training; his teaching career at Harvard University; his duties as a staff member of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI); his efforts as a conserv...
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Schuchert, Charles, 1858-1942
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1893-1904
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7233
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist primarily of Schuchert's incoming correspondence, with some outgoing correspondence, while employed by the USGS and the United States National Museum. The correspondence concerns Schuchert's field work with the USGS and the examination and exchange of specimens.
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Scudder, Samuel Hubbard, 1837-1911
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1879-1903 and undated
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7249
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist of correspondence concerning the transfer of Scudder's insect collection from the Hayden Survey to the United States National Museum; notebooks of Tertiary insect drawings; and a catalog and list of fossil insects, and notes.