The illustration features a vivarium which can be used in summer or winter: …more suitable, with certain exceptions, for Snakes than Lizards, as the latter are apt to climb up more »
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Alexander Lawrie (born New York, NY, 1828; died Lafayette, IN, 1917) Alexander Lawrie, son of a Scottish immigrant, started his artistic career by apprenticing as a wood engraver at the more »
North American Wild Flowers, Mary Vaux Walcott (1860–1940), Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1925, Plate 336: flower The Fossil Record, a newsletter put out by the Smithsonian Department of Paleobiology, includes more »
Check out these new acquisitions at the National Museum of American History Library! United States. Navy Dept., Reports of explorations and surveys… of a ship-canal between the Atlantic and Pacific more »
The Lovett Co., Lovett's Guide, 1898, Back Cover If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.—Dean Martin Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the more »
While recently wandering through the twisting halls of the National Museum of American History, my colleagues and I bumped into a young researcher at the Libraries' American History Library. Joseph more »
2009 is the centennial year of the discovery of the Burgess Shale fossil in the Rocky Mountains of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. In 1909, Charles Walcott—the fourth secretary of the more »