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Summary
| English: Photograph of visitors to the Museum in the Smithsonian Institution Building | |
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| Author |
Unknown author |
| Photographer |
probably by Thomas Smillie |
| Title |
English: Photograph of visitors to the Museum in the Smithsonian Institution Building |
| Description |
Secretary Joseph Henry issues a circular requesting help to complete the Smithsonian's collection of the quadrupeds of North America. It includes instructions for the preservation of specimens. An 1854, 2nd edition of Spencer F. Baird's circular, "Directions for Collecting, Preserving, and Transporting Specimens of Natural History," is referenced in the 1855 circular. The complete text for Baird's directions is published in the 1856 Annual Report (pp.235-253). In his report for that year, Baird states that the museum's "...collection of the vertebrate animals of North America, including skins, specimens entire in alcohol, and skeletons and skulls, is in every department, the richest in the world in materials for illustrating species and their geographical distribution." (p. 59) |
| Date | 1867 |
| Accession number |
Smithsonian Institution Archives, negative number MAH-60144A |
| Notes |
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 65, p. V. 1, p. 101 Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1855, p. 55 Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1856, p. 59, 235-253 Topics: Assistant Secretaries, Memorandums, Collectors and collecting, Museum exhibits, Mammals, Natural history, Secretaries Subjects: Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887, Henry, Joseph 1797-1878, United States National Museum Category: Chronology of Smithsonian History |
| Source | http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_342 |
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