The Smithsonian Institution Libraries has been collecting texts written in the languages of various Native American peoples since the late 19th century, when the United States Congress established the Bureau of Ethnology (later known as BAE, or the Bureau of American Ethnology) at the Smithsonian.
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Director Nancy E. Gwinn and Associate Director and Mary Augusta Thomas traveled to Panama at the end of November, where they had very useful meetings with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) Library and research staff.
Mary Augusta Thomas and I, Nancy Gwinn, went to Panama this week to visit our library at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Center. We saw the renovated library reading space, where extra more »
Have you got everything you need for tomorrow? The cranberries, the sweet potatoes, the pumpkin pie and the … guest of honor?
The first elephants acquired by the National Zoological Park were ‘Dunk’ and ‘Gold Dust’ in April of 1891.
Over the long weekend of August 12th to 15th Courtney Shaw, Senior Reference Librarian for the Vertebrate Zoology Libraries (top), went to Sante Fe, NM. The purpose of this quick more »
In the 1890s, a time before the expediency of the internet, Charles Davies Sherborn embarked upon a meticulous and expansive research project on par with the Oxford English Dictionary—only he did it single-handedly.