Four years after the initial design process began, the National Museum of Natural History Library showed off its new home to over 170 guests. Folks poured in to see the new space and attend the ribbon cutting ceremony.
Category: Natural and Physical Sciences
This plate from John James Audubon’s The birds of America: from drawings made in the United States and their territories, 1840-1844 depicts the Hudsonian Godwit, or Limosa haemastica. As you might suspect, they tend to breed near the Hudson Bay, as well as farther north in Canada and even as far as Alaska, and then migrating to South America.
One of the most distinctive features of the Libraries’ building at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is the exciting mural by the famous Panamanian artist, Brooke Alfaro. Sadly, after heavy rains and leaking, the mural was seen to be bulging and considered in danger.
The Smithsonian Research Online program recently surpassed the mark of 10,000 publications in the Digital Repository. This collection of digital publications by Smithsonian staff represents a broad review of research more ยป
Popular wisdom says that girls feet stop growing around the age of 14 or so and boys a year or so later. But we all know that the shoes we wore in high school probably wouldn’t fit us today, as other factors such as weight gain, preganancy and a later growth spurt can affect the size and growth of feet. When’s the last time you actually had someone measure your feet before trying on a new pair of shoes? Maybe today’s the day.
If you visited the zoo prior to the twentieth century you would most likely have seen the animals behind bars in cages. But in the early 1900s Carl Hagenbeck decided he wanted to display animals in a more “natural” venue.
Hopefully as everyone recovers from yesterday’s glut of food and presents some real boxing matches will not develop. Happy Boxing Day!