Barro Colorado Island Biological Laboratory Search this
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Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 9.5w x 7.5h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Event; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Group, candid
Place:
Barro Colorado Nature Monument (Panama)
Panama
Barro Colorado Island (Panama)
Date:
March 29, 1924
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
See Record Unit 135, Box 25, Folder 1 for a signed list of attendees at the inaguration of the new laboratory building at Barro Colorado Island.
Summary:
At the inauguration of the Barro Colorado Island Biological Laboratory, this first group of scientists and guests visit the nature preserve and biological laboratory established on Barro Colorado Island. BCI was created when the Chagras River was dammed to create Gatun Lake as a watershed for the Panama Canal. The mountaintop island was set aside as a preserve for visiting North American naturalists. It was funded by a consortium until 1946 when the Canal Zone Biological Area, later (1966) renamed Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, was transferred to the Smithsonian.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 34, Folder: 30
