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Creator:

National Air and Space Museum  Search this

Type:

Lectures

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2011-05-24T16:46:04.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Aeronautics;Flight;Space Sciences  Search this

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Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

YouTube Channel:

airandspace

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_xQ-dm2zHljk

Biogeographical Region:

80 - Central America  Search this

Collector:

Cyrus Longworth Lundell  Search this

Place:

The District of Peten. Third Biological Expedition of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Michigan, 1933. La Libertad., El Peten, Guatemala, Central America - Neotropics

Collection Date:

23 May 1933

Taxonomy:

Plantae Dicotyledonae Malpighiales Malpighiaceae Hiraeoideae

Published Name:

Hiraea reclinata Jacq.

Barcode:

04179669

USNM Number:

1586331

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/38ab159cc-2329-49ea-99cd-fe9aac668ebc

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_16745701

Biogeographical Region:

80 - Central America  Search this

Collector:

Cyrus Longworth Lundell  Search this

Place:

The District of Peten. Third Biological Expedition of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Michigan, 1933. La Libertad., El Peten, Guatemala, Central America - Neotropics

Collection Date:

24 May 1933

Taxonomy:

Plantae Dicotyledonae Malpighiales Malpighiaceae Hiraeoideae

Published Name:

Hiraea reclinata Jacq.

Barcode:

04179668

USNM Number:

1586333

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3d5047ecd-63bd-4d2e-b3c2-862d04a8ca24

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_16748519

Manufacturer:

Crosley Corporation  Search this

Section T OSRD  Search this

Materials:

Cap - plastic, body - metal, elecgtronics and glass components

Case - steel

Dimensions:

Other: 2 1/4 in. diameter x 8 in. tall (5.7 x 20.3cm)

Type:

ARMAMENT-Miscellaneous

Country of Origin:

United States of America

Credit Line:

Gift of James A. Van Allen and the University of Iowa.

Inventory Number:

A19940233000

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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National Air and Space Museum Collection

Location:

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA

Exhibit Station:

Space Science

Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv98bcc0af2-28c9-45d9-a3fe-fcaeb6c063ec

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nasm_A19940233000

Creator:

Steggerda, Morris, 1900-1950  Search this

Names:

Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Genetics  Search this

Extent:

70 Prints (silver gelatin)

Culture:

Mayas  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Date:

1931

Scope and Contents note:

Anthropometric portraits of Maya people in the vicinity of Chichen Itza, probably made for Steggerda's Carnegie Institution publication 434, "Anthropometry of Adult Maya Indians: A Study of Their Physical and Physiological Characteristics," 1932.

Biographical/Historical note:

Morris Steggerda (1900-1950) was a biological anthropologist who studied Mayan culture. He received his BA from Hope College in Michigan (1922) and his MA (1923) and PhD (1928) from the University of Illinois Department of Zoology. While still in his PhD program, he met Charles Davenport of the Department of Genetics at Carnegie Institution of Washington, with whom he studied the indigenous people of the British West Indies and published Race-Crossing in Jamaica (1929). Steggerda became an assistant professor at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, (1928-1930) before joining the research staff of the Carnegie Institution Department of Genetics based in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. During his fourteen-year career with the Institution, Steggerda did research in Yucatan, Mexico, and wrote two reports that were published by the Carnegie Institution in 1932 and 1941. In 1944, he was appointed professor of Anthropology at Hartford Seminary Foundation (Connecticut), a position which he kept until his death. Steggerda was a founding member of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in 1930 (later serving on its Executive Committee and as its vice president) and a councilmember for the American Anthropological Association.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 3319

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional Steggerda photographs held in the National Anthropological Archives in the Bureau of American Ethnology-Smithsonian Institution Illustrations.

Correspondence from Steggerda held in the National Anthropological Archives in the Handbook of South American Indians Records, Bureau of American Ethnology General correspondence, John Lawrence Angel Papers, Ales Hrdlicka Papers, and MS 4846.

The Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine holds the Steggerda Collection of anthropometric records.

Contained in:

Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Photographs  Search this

Citation:

Photo Lot 3319, Morris Steggerda photographs of Mayan peoples, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.3319

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw336a9d6b4-2293-4e3a-958e-fe6751cc5591

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-3319

Creator:

National Air and Space Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2016-11-16T14:35:57.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Aeronautics;Flight;Space Sciences  Search this

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Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

YouTube Channel:

airandspace

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_zuDjWl3YbRs

Container:

Box 2 of 3

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 07-040, Ellis Leon Yochelson Papers

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Ellis Leon Yochelson Papers

Ellis Leon Yochelson Papers / Box 2

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-sia-fa07-040-refidd1e2381

Container:

Box 3 of 22

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 02-051, Freer Gallery of Art, Field Expedition Records

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Field Expedition Records

Field Expedition Records / Box 3

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-sia-fa02-051-refidd1e818

Container:

Box 8 of 11

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-047, National Zoological Park, Office of the Director, Appointment Files

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Appointment Files

Appointment Files / Box 8

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-sia-fa01-047-refidd1e10187

Collection Creator:

Burns, Allan F. (Allan Frank), 1945-  Search this

Bernard, H. Russell (Harvey Russell), 1940-  Search this

Wagley, Charles, 1913-1991  Search this

Extent:

1 Videocassettes (VHS) (2 hours, color sound)

Type:

Archival materials

Videocassettes (vhs)

Date:

1990

Scope and Contents:

Video oral history of anthropologist Ruth Bunzel conducted by anthropologist Charles Wagley. Dr. Bunzel, a contemporary of Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, reminisces about her days at Columbia University first as a secretary of the Anthropology Department and later as an anthropologist. She discusses her travels and fieldwork in Guatemala, Mexico, and China; her preliminary work among the Zuni Indians; and the people that were influential in her career. Dr. Wagley comments on Dr. Bunzel's influence on his own work.

Legacy Keywords: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 ; Hurston, Zora Neale ; Kimbel, Sol ; Linton, Ralph ; Tax, Sol, 1907- ; Institute Carnegie Institute of Washington ; Special Collections

General:

Local Number: HSFA 1989.10.8

Collection Restrictions:

The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

Collection Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Collection Citation:

Video Dialogues in Anthropology, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Video Dialogues in Anthropology

Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc9c3a549a5-6b62-424f-9580-43fc0e34759d

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-hsfa-1989-10-ref27

Manufacturer:

Carnegie Institution of Washington  Search this

Materials:

Metal case and structure

Glass optics

Electronics

Cadmiun(?) plating

Dimensions:

3-D (Approximate): 78.7 × 45.7 × 91.4cm (2 ft. 7 in. × 1 ft. 6 in. × 3 ft.)

Type:

INSTRUMENTS-Scientific

Country of Origin:

United States of America

Credit Line:

Gift of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism.

Inventory Number:

A20050006000

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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National Air and Space Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9b686ff1a-3ea7-4b39-952a-050ecc83f987

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nasm_A20050006000

Maker:

Bausch & Lomb  Search this

Physical Description:

metal (overall material)

Measurements:

average spatial: 31.1 cm x 17.7 cm x 19 cm; 12 1/4 in x 6 15/16 in x 7 1/2 in

Object Name:

microscope

Place made:

United States: New York, Rochester

Date made:

ca 1940

Subject:

Science & Scientific Instruments  Search this

Credit Line:

Carnegie Institution of Washington

ID Number:

1993.0115.01.1

Catalog number:

1993.0115.01.1

Accession number:

1993.0115

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Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences

Microscopes

Science & Mathematics

Artifact Walls exhibit

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-073d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1163949

Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Names:

Freer Gallery of Art  Search this

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (typed, with handwritten edits)

Type:

Archival materials

Inventories

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Comprehensive index of Charles Lang Freer's library, mostly relating to art and Asian culture. Headings include authors, countries, and topical subjects. Sections include locations in Freer's original Detroit home; an index of all books transferred to the Smithsonian; a list of collections and collectors catalogues of American and Near and Far Eastern art; sales catalogues, and books in Chinese language.

Arrangement:

Organized in the original manner by the creator.

Local Numbers:

FSA A.01 05.22

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Art, Asian -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art, American -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Book collecting  Search this

Function:

Libraries

Genre/Form:

Inventories

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01, Item FSA A.01 05.22

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Charles Lang Freer Papers

Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 5: Art Inventories / 5.22: Printed Books [Library]

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc302cb29b7-d6a1-46ad-9b1d-afc360459013

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-01-ref3332

Creator:

Bad Heart Bull, Amos, 1869-1913  Search this

Blish, Helen Heather  Search this

Extent:

413 Glass negatives

3 Nitrate negatives

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Glass negatives

Nitrate negatives

Date:

1890-1913

1928

Scope and Contents:

Amos Bad Heart Bull's drawings provide a broad overview of Lakota life, some of which Bad Heart Bull experienced and much that he learned about from older members of the community. Depicted are scenes of warfare, religious, domestic, and social life, hunting, ranching, and various other events and activities. Many of the drawings include inscriptions in Lakota, identifying the event or the people depicted.

The warfare drawings show preparations, the layout of the battlefield, individual engagements and battles (many with the Crow), and broader overviews of events unfolding. There is also a lengthy series of pictures depicting the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Illustrations of camp life show scenes both prior to and during life on the Pine Ridge Reservation. These include drawings of hunting and butchering buffalo, of general social life with scenes of courtship and of games, and of religious ceremonies, including the Sun Dance and the Ghost Dance. Also shown are scenes of ranching, of Fourth of July parades and events for 1898 and 1903, and a series of pictures illustrating the regalia of a number of warrior societies.

Arrangement:

The photographs are arranged in the order that the drawings appear in the original ledger.

Biographical / Historical:

Amos Bad Heart Bull was born in 1869 in Dakota Territory. Given the childhood name Eagle Bonnet (Waŋblí Wapȟáha), Amos was born to Bad Heart Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Čhaŋté Šíča, c. 1846-1913) and Her Red Blanket (Tȟašinálútawiŋ), also known as Gopher and Yankton Woman. His family was associated with the Soreback Band of the Oglala. He later took his father's name as a surname. He enlisted at Fort Robinson, NE as a scout for the U.S. Army in the 1890s under the name Eagle Lance. He subsequently lived in the White Clay District of the Pine Ridge Reservation, marrying a widow named Sophia in 1907. Their one child died in infancy. He died in 1913.

Helen Heather Blish was born on November 8, 1898 in Detroit, Michigan to the Reverend William Henry Blish and Jean Mary Street. Blish grew up in frequent contact with Native American people as her father worked for the Federal Indian Service at various schools throughout Blish's youth. She lived with her family at Pine Ridge Reservation from 1916-1920, when she became a fulltime student at the University of Nebraska receiving a BA in 1922 under the mentorship of Hartley Burr Alexander. After graduation, she taught school in Detroit and in Nebraska, returning to graduate school at the University of Nebraska in 1926. She received her master's degree in 1928, producing a thesis based on the Bad Heart Bull drawings. She continued intermittent work on the drawings for the next several years while also teaching in Detroit. She died in 1941.

Bad Heart Bull produced the drawings in this book over a period of years between 1890 and his death in 1913. The book then passed to his sister Dollie Pretty Cloud, who kept it for the rest of her life. It was interred with her in 1947. Helen Blish, a student at the University of Nebraska, learned of the book in 1927. She subsequently received a grant from the Carnegie Institution of Washington to support research and photography. She arranged to borrow the book from Mrs. Pretty Cloud, paying her an annual fee for its use. She took the book to Lincoln, Nebraska where it was photographed by Frank Shoemaker. Working from prints, Blish produced a substantial manuscript with interpretation of each drawing based on interviews conducted on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The fully illustrated manuscript was eventually published in 1967 by the University of Nebraska Press, with photographs provided by Blish's sister.

Related Materials:

Copies of Helen Blish's manuscript are held at the American Museum of Natural History, Division of Anthropology Archives, and the University of Nebraska Library Archives and Special Collections.

The University of Nebraska Library Archives and Special Collections holds the Frank Shoemaker papers.

The Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College holds the Hartley Alexander Burr papers.

Provenance:

The collection was donated to the archives by the Plains Indian Ledger Art Digital Publishing Project.

Restrictions:

The negatives are fragile and not available for viewing. Digital surrogates are available.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Sponsor:

Funding for digitization of the photographs of Amos Bad Heart Bull drawings was provided by the Plains Indian Ledger Art Digital Publishing Project.

Identifier:

NAA.2013-10

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3260fa374-a17b-4f2b-9dc0-c6aebaa30e77

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-2013-10

Biogeographical Region:

80 - Central America  Search this

Collector:

Cyrus Longworth Lundell  Search this

Place:

The District of Peten. Third Biological Expedition of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Michigan, 1933. Occupied Clearing, La Libertad., El Peten, Guatemala, Central America - Neotropics

Collection Date:

9 Apr 1933

Taxonomy:

Plantae Monocotyledonae Poales Poaceae Chloridoideae

Published Name:

Eragrostis ciliaris (L.) R. Br.

Barcode:

04372463

USNM Number:

1610382

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3fba2dec1-f5f9-4f13-8d76-a75ee0dcb0dc

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_16222041

Biogeographical Region:

80 - Central America  Search this

Collector:

Cyrus Longworth Lundell  Search this

Place:

The District of Peten. Third Biological Expedition of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Michigan, 1933. Lake Petén., El Peten, Guatemala, Central America - Neotropics

Collection Date:

Jun 1933

Taxonomy:

Plantae Monocotyledonae Poales Poaceae Chloridoideae

Published Name:

Eragrostis ciliaris (L.) R. Br.

Barcode:

04372467

USNM Number:

1610378

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3d7eab254-8d8c-476f-acb8-ae593e10fe1e

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_16222043

Maker:

Ernst Leitz  Search this

Measurements:

overall: 31.7 cm x 10.3 cm x 13.2 cm; 12 15/32 in x 4 1/16 in x 5 3/16 in

Object Name:

Microscope

Place made:

Germany: Hesse, Wetzlar

Date made:

ca 1892

Subject:

Modern Physics  Search this

Credit Line:

Ronald S. Wilkinson

ID Number:

1994.0397.05

Serial number:

24997

Catalog number:

1994.0397.05

Accession number:

1994.0397

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Medicine and Science: Modern Physics

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-45a0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1188449

Creator:

DeVorkin, David H., 1944-  Search this

Names:

Rubin, Vera  Search this

Extent:

0.06 Gigabytes (4 digital images)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Digital images

Date:

2007

Summary:

Vera Florence Cooper Rubin (1928-2016) was an American astronomer whose work provided clear, observational evidence of the existence of dark matter. This collection consists of four born digital images of astronomer Vera Rubin, seated at her desk with papers relating to her discovery of dark matter, during an oral history interview conducted by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM) curator David H. DeVorkin and NASM intern Ashley Yeager in Rubin's office.

Scope and Contents:

This collection consists of four born digital images of astronomer Vera Rubin, seated at her desk with papers relating to her discovery of dark matter, during an oral history interview conducted by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM) curator David H. DeVorkin and NASM intern Ashley Yeager in Rubin's office at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C.; July 20, 2007. DeVorkin was the photographer and is not seen in the images; Yeager appears seated beside Rubin's desk in one image. Images were received as 300 ppi image files in RGB JPG format, each 2560 x 1920 pixels in size.

Arrangement:

Collection is in original order.

Biographical / Historical:

Vera Florence Cooper Rubin (1928-2016) was an American astronomer whose work provided clear, observational evidence of the existence of dark matter. Rubin graduated with a degree in astronomy from Vassar College in 1948, completed a master's degree from Cornell University in 1951, and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University in 1954. In the 1960s, Rubin began what would become a life-long quest to understand the motions of stars within galaxies and the motions of galaxies themselves. Expecting to discover that stars farther from the center of a galaxy moved more slowly than stars closer to the center, Rubin instead observed that the outermost stars all seemed to be orbiting faster than they should. The stars were being influenced by the gravity of a vast amount of undetected mass surrounding the galaxy that came to be known as dark matter. Rubin collaborated with gifted instrument-maker W. Kent Ford, Jr. using an image tube spectrograph he developed at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. When Rubin used this instrument in telescopes it allowed for much more sensitive observations of distant galaxies than had previously been possible. These observations yielded evidence for the existence of dark matter that stimulated general acknowledgement that it forms much of the mass in the universe. For her ground-breaking work, Vera Rubin became the second woman in history to receive the prestigious Gold Medal of England's Royal Astronomical Society. Rubin was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1993.

Provenance:

NASM Generated (David DeVorkin), 2020, NASM.2020.0033

Restrictions:

No restrictions on access

Rights:

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Topic:

Astronomy  Search this

Women scientists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Digital images

Citation:

Vera Rubin Digital Images, NASM.2020.0033, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NASM.2020.0033

Archival Repository:

National Air and Space Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg2c426309c-0bee-4003-b0aa-345a509ce136

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nasm-2020-0033

Biogeographical Region:

80 - Central America  Search this

Collector:

Cyrus Longworth Lundell  Search this

Place:

British Honduras, Belize District. Third Biological Expedition of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Michigan, 1933. Roadside through Mangrove Swamp, Belize., Belize, Central America - Neotropics

Collection Date:

9 Mar 1933

Taxonomy:

Plantae Monocotyledonae Poales Poaceae Chloridoideae

Published Name:

Eragrostis prolifera (Sw.) Steud.

Barcode:

04372945

USNM Number:

1610306

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/31d7a197e-3b9e-41de-a5a8-8b8c81b00173

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_16222549

Biogeographical Region:

80 - Central America  Search this

Collector:

Cyrus Longworth Lundell  Search this

Place:

British Honduras, Belize District. Third Biological Expedition of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Michigan, 1933. Roadside through Mangrove Swamp, Belize., Belize, Central America - Neotropics

Collection Date:

9 Mar 1933

Taxonomy:

Plantae Monocotyledonae Poales Poaceae Chloridoideae

Published Name:

Eragrostis prolifera (Sw.) Steud.

Barcode:

04372967

USNM Number:

1610307

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3b70600c1-3ef6-4fff-bc58-d539236894e9

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_16222562