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Biogeographical Region:

76 - Southwestern U.S.A.  Search this

Collector:

S. Murray  Search this

Min. Elevation:

2650  Search this

Place:

San Francisco Peaks, N of Flagstaff, off FS road 151 near Fern Mountain, near the Nature Conservancy preserve., Coconino, Arizona, United States, North America

Collection Date:

23 Jul 2018

Taxonomy:

Plantae Dicotyledonae Asterales Asteraceae Asteroideae

Published Name:

Hymenoxys hoopesii (A. Gray) Bierner

Barcode:

03458917

USNM Number:

3735180

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/354d3f08e-970a-43ba-a152-8fe25aab6f23

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_15230278

Biogeographical Region:

74 - North-Central U.S.A.  Search this

Collector:

D. Wilson  Search this

Microhabitat Description:

With Andropogon gerardii, Amorpha canescens, Liatris punctata, etc.  Search this

Min. Elevation:

381  Search this

Place:

The Natural Conservancy Vermillion Preserve, east end., Clay, South Dakota, United States, North America

Collection Date:

5 Oct 2017

Taxonomy:

Plantae Dicotyledonae Gentianales Asclepiadaceae

Published Name:

Asclepias viridiflora Raf.

Barcode:

03477597

USNM Number:

3746373

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/399deae0d-85aa-4d85-bd0a-300288989f02

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_16588504

Biogeographical Region:

76 - Southwestern U.S.A.  Search this

Collector:

S. Murray  Search this

Min. Elevation:

2599  Search this

Place:

Hart Prairie, N of FS rd 151, near Nature Conservancy, Coconino, Arizona, United States, North America

Collection Date:

3 Aug 2012

Taxonomy:

Plantae Dicotyledonae Rosales Rosaceae Rosoideae

Published Name:

Dasiphora fruticosa subsp. floribunda (Pursh) Kartesz

Barcode:

03477892

USNM Number:

3744566

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3a5b80083-dc9a-4fc4-9efb-5af54320737a

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_16635944

Creator:

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center  Search this

Type:

Lectures

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2021-12-13T20:02:33.000Z

YouTube Category:

Science & Technology  Search this

Topic:

Animal health;Environmental Sciences;Coastal ecology  Search this

See more by:

SmithsonianSERC

Data Source:

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

YouTube Channel:

SmithsonianSERC

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_Wd0DNHL9QTo

Collector:

S. L. Olson  Search this

C. J. Ralph  Search this

S. Sweet  Search this

Ocean/Sea/Gulf:

North Pacific Ocean  Search this

Length - Total:

150 cm

Preparation:

Skull

Sex:

Unknown

Place:

Samoa Peninsula, Ca. 4 Mi. W. Of Arcata, N. End Of Peninsula At S End Of Nature Conservancy Preserve, Humboldt, California, United States, North America, North Pacific Ocean

Collection Date:

26 Jul 1982

Taxonomy:

Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Eutheria, Cetacea, Odontoceti, Phocoenidae

Published Name:

Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)

Accession Number:

349918

Other Numbers:

Whale Field Number 1 : No Number

USNM Number:

550152

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Vertebrate Zoology

Mammals

Data Source:

NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals Division

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/35401b9c0-38ef-4fb4-9436-e417d4833e93

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhvz_7021376

Former owner:

Lockwood, Henrietta Sedgwick  Search this

Lockwood, John E.  Search this

Bulloch family  Search this

Horticulturist:

Zitter, Robin  Search this

Gardener:

Zitter, Robin  Search this

Landscape architect:

Weber, Nelva M.  Search this

Collection Creator:

Adams, Molly, 1918-2003  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

Lockwood Garden (Bedford, New York)

United States of America -- New York -- Westchester County -- Bedford

Scope and Contents:

The folders include worksheets, an abbreviated garden plan, a plan of the parterre garden, photocopies of articles about the garden, and a letter from Henrietta Lockwood to Nelva M. Weber.

General:

This garden in Westchester County was established in 1938 on an old farm. The owners, John and Henrietta Lockwood, began a process of remodeling, design, and land development that continued for over 60 years until Mrs. Lockwood's death. Growing places may be found throughout the multi-acre property (of the eventual 100+ acres all but 13 have been deeded to a local nature conservancy). A lean-to greenhouse on the north end of the kitchen wing provides the winter display area for streptocarpus, camellias and other potted plants. It is here that seeds of all sorts are sown and grown under fluorescent light until they are large enough to be taken to the much larger greenhouse across the drive. A winding path through a grassy meadow planted with apple trees leads from the house to the flower and vegetable gardens. The site now features a patterned design based on a medieval, four-part parterre garden--two diamond shapes and two round--using bricks as edging for the beds, and also includes four iron umbrella tripods that serve as supports for clematis. Beyond the flower garden is an extensive vegetable garden and berry patch that produce fresh summer harvests for the table as well as the freezer. Many varieties of clematis are found tumbling informally atop stone walls, weaving through bushes and climbing obediently up the tan house walls, reflecting the owner's passion for this plant. Daphne is another particular favorite.

Each fall on the east side of the guest house an ingenious portable greenhouse is erected to house many tender potted plants, particularly winter-flowering camellias. Nearby a rock ledge forms a terrace for the guest house; beyond is a severe drop into the cool, dark woods. Featured plants in this area include yellow corydalis, mimosa trees, ferns, and woodland flowers. Just outside the guest house potted fig trees and an arbor of grapes provide shade. Inside the main house is a tiny greenhouse. To the rear of the house, along the edge of the brick terrace, blue pansies bloom with spring flowers and are later joined by pots of standard fuchsias and roses. The old well house still stands in the middle of a brick terrace surround by white alyssum volunteers. Beautiful clay pots of unusual collected plants are everywhere. This is a perfect country garden with its meadow views and unusual plant combinations, a tribute to its owners' lifelong devotion to its design, development, and care.

Persons associated with the garden include: John E. and Henrietta Sedgwick Lockwood (former owners, 1938-2001); the Bulloch family (former owners, before 1938); Nelva M. Weber (landscape architect); and Robin Zitter (horticulturist and gardener, 1984 to date).

Related Materials:

Lockwood Garden related holdings consist of 2 folders (19 35 mm. slides; 2 photoprints; 1 120 mm. transparency; 29 negatives)

See others in:

Garden Club of America Collection, ca. 1920-[ongoing].

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Gardens -- New York -- Bedford  Search this

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Maida Babson Adams American garden collection.

Identifier:

AAG.ADM, File NY464

See more items in:

Maida Babson Adams American garden collection.

Maida Babson Adams American garden collection. / Series 1: Garden Images / New York

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb60db6d852-3aa2-424c-a92a-4a619fb4aaaa

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-adm-ref1271

Author:

Fosberg, F. Raymond  Search this

Editor:

Costin, A. B.  Search this

Groves, R. H.  Search this

Object Type:

Smithsonian staff publication

Year:

1973

Citation:

Fosberg, F. Raymond. 1973. "Vascular Plants — Widespread Island Species." In Nature Conservation in the Pacific. Costin, A. B. and Groves, R. H., editors. 167–169. Canberra: Australian National University Press.

Identifier:

95717

Data source:

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:slasro_95717

Container:

Box 29 of 34

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 106, Smithsonian Institution, Tape Recordings

See more items in:

Tape Recordings

Tape Recordings / Box 29

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-sia-faru0106-refidd1e5680

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Folklife Festival  Search this

Extent:

1 Cubic foot (approximate)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Business records

Correspondence

Memorandums

Sound recordings

Audiocassettes

Contracts

Negatives

Video recordings

Slides (photographs)

Plans (drawings)

Videotapes

Audiotapes

Digital images

Notes

Photographic prints

Place:

Caribbean Area

Trinidad and Tobago

Puerto Rico

Date:

June 23-July 4, 1988

Summary:

The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.

Scope and Contents note:

This collection documents the planning, production, and execution of the 1988 Festival of American Folklife. Materials may include photographs, audio recordings, motion picture film and video recordings, notes, production drawings, contracts, memoranda, correspondence, informational materials, publications, and ephemera. Such materials were created during the Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., as well as in the featured communities, before or after the Festival itself.

Arrangement note:

Arranged in 6 series.

Missing Title

Series 1: Program Books, Festival Publications, and Ephemera

Series 2: American Folklore Society Centennial

Series 3: Festival Music Stage

Series 4: Ingenuity and Tradition: The Common Wealth of Massachusetts

Series 5: Migration to Metropolitan Washington: Making a New Place Home

Series 6: Music from the Peoples of the Soviet Union

Historical note:

The Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998.

The 1988 Festival of American Folklife was produced by the Smithsonian Office of Folklife Programs and cosponsored by the National Park Service.

For more information, see Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.

Introduction:

The 1988 Festival celebrated the centennial of the American Folklore Society, founded one hundred years earlier because of the need to document and study cultures that were seen as disappearing. Much of the Society's attention today, however, is engaged in the documentation and interpretation of emerging traditions and cultural expressions. Folklorists work in inner cities, conduct research on occupational groups, analyze processes of traditionalization and cooperate with other professionals in devising natural conservation and historical preservation strategies, which also promote cultural continuity, equity and integrity. Visitors to the 1988 Festival could learn about what it is that folklorists do and what impacts they have on the communities with which they work.

The other living exhibitions that made up this year's Festival also provided ample illustrations of this same view of the traditional. The Massachusetts program told a paradigmatic American story. Gay Head Wampanoag, Yankee settlers, Afro American migrants, and immigrants from Italy, Greece, Poland, the Cape Verde Islands, Puerto Rico, and Southeast Asia have not only preserved their traditions; through ingenious acts of individual and community creativity they have adapted them and endowed them with new meanings, as circumstances have changed. The Metropolitan Washington program pointed to the heightened consciousness of cultural issues associated with the migration experience. The program asked how immigrants from El Salvador, Ethiopia, China, Trinidad and Tobago, as well as domestic Anglo and Afro American groups historically migrating from nearby states, discard, reinvent, and reconstitute their traditions as they actively make a new place home. A varied contingent of musicians and performers from several republics of the Soviet Union demonstrated how truly ancient traditions nurtured in various pastoral, tribal, and religious environments have not merely survived but actually flourished in contemporary Soviet life. Also at the Festival were American musicians who, as part of a groundbreaking cultural exchange with the Soviet Union, would later travel to Moscow to participate in the International Folklore Festival in August 1988 and be reunited with the Soviet musicians participating in the Smithsonian's Festival.

The 1988 Festival took place for two five-day weeks (June 23-27 and June 30-July 4) between Madison Drive and Jefferson Drive and between 10th Street and 14th Street, south of the National Museum of American History and the National Museum of Natural History (see site plan).

The 1988 Program Book included schedules and participant lists for each program; the Program Book essays provided a larger context for the Festival presentations, extending beyond the traditions actually presented at the 1988 Festival.

The Festival was co-presented by the Smithsonian Institution and National Park Service and organized by the Office of Folklife Programs.

Office of Folklife Programs

Richard Kurin, Acting Director; Diana Parker, Festival Director; Anthony Seeger, Curator, Folkways Records; Thomas Vennum, Jr., Senior Ethnomusicologist; Peter Seitel, Senior Folklorist; Marjorie Hunt, Phyllis M. May-Machunda, Heliana Portes de Roux, Frank Proschan, Nicholas R. Spitzer, Folklorists; Jeffrey Place, Assistant Archivist

National Park Service

William Penn Mott, Jr., Director; Manus J. Fish, Jr., Regional Director, National Capital Region

Shared Stewardship of Collections:

The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage acknowledges and respects the right of artists, performers, Folklife Festival participants, community-based scholars, and knowledge-keepers to collaboratively steward representations of themselves and their intangible cultural heritage in media produced, curated, and distributed by the Center. Making this collection accessible to the public is an ongoing process grounded in the Center's commitment to connecting living people and cultures to the materials this collection represents. To view the Center's full shared stewardship policy, which defines our protocols for addressing collections-related inquiries and concerns, please visit https://folklife.si.edu/archives#shared-stewardship.

Forms Part Of:

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1988 Festival of American Folklife forms part of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival records .

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: Papers

1967 Festival of American Folklife records - [Ongoing]

Related Archival Materials note:

Within the Rinzler Archives, related materials may be found in various collections such as the Ralph Rinzler papers and recordings, the Lily Spandorf drawings, the Diana Davies photographs, the Robert Yellin photographs, and the Curatorial Research, Programs, and Projects collection. Additional relevant materials may also be found in the Smithsonian Institution Archives concerning the Division of Performing Arts (1966-1983), Folklife Program (1977-1980), Office of Folklife Programs (1980-1991), Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies (1991-1999), Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present), and collaborating Smithsonian units, as well as in the administrative papers of key figures such as the Secretary and respective deputies. Users are encouraged to consult relevant finding aids and to contact Archives staff for further information.

Restrictions:

Access to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is by appointment only. Visit our website for more information on scheduling a visit or making a digitization request. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies.

Rights:

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.

Topic:

World music  Search this

Food habits  Search this

Folk art  Search this

arts and crafts  Search this

Folk festivals  Search this

Folk music  Search this

Folklore  Search this

Genre/Form:

Business records

Correspondence

Memorandums

Sound recordings

Audiocassettes

Contracts

Negatives

Video recordings

Slides (photographs)

Plans (drawings)

Videotapes

Audiotapes

Digital images

Notes

Photographic prints

Citation:

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1988 Festival of American Folklife, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

CFCH.SFF.1988

See more items in:

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1988 Festival of American Folklife

Archival Repository:

Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/bk59e9f3773-cd55-493f-94e0-c53650d914c4

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-cfch-sff-1988

Biogeographical Region:

63 - North-Central Pacific  Search this

Collector:

Warren L. Wagner  Search this

Clyde T. Imada  Search this

Wayne N. Takeuchi  Search this

Max. Elevation:

2040  Search this

Min. Elevation:

2040  Search this

Place:

Makawao District, Nature Conservancy Waikamoi Preserve below Hosmer Grove, Maui, Hawaii, United States, Pacific Islands

Collection Date:

5 Mar 1988

Taxonomy:

Plantae Dicotyledonae Fabales Fabaceae Papilionoideae

Published Name:

Cytisus palmensis (Christ) Hutch.

Barcode:

00445506

USNM Number:

3282756

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

Flora of Hawaii

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3dd081e5d-8456-4a37-bf79-ead9fd52e10b

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_2735144

Biogeographical Region:

76 - Southwestern U.S.A.  Search this

Collector:

Robert F. Thorne  Search this

Steve Boyd  Search this

Earl W. Lathrop  Search this

Min. Elevation:

533  Search this

Place:

Riverside County, Santa Rosa Plateau, Nature Conservancy Reserve: Riparian woodland along Cole Canyon, California, United States, North America

Collection Date:

18 Jul 1985

Taxonomy:

Plantae Dicotyledonae Fabales Fabaceae Papilionoideae

Published Name:

Trifolium wormskioldii Lehm.

Barcode:

02298885

USNM Number:

3585689

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/348d87084-fe6f-4af6-81b5-04c22e3a0dd1

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_13319336

Author:

Soulé, Michael E  Search this

Physical description:

xiii, 584 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1986

C1986

Topic:

Nature conservation  Search this

Population biology  Search this

Ecology  Search this

Call number:

QH75.C664 1986X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_291882

Provenance:

Bennington Garden Club  Search this

Photographer:

Jones, Issac S.  Search this

Polly S., Jones  Search this

Nevius, Christy  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

United States of America -- Vermont -- Bennington County -- Manchester

Turkey Hill Farm (Manchester, Vermont)

Scope and Contents:

55 digital images (2019) and 1 file folder with a photocopy of cover art of this farm for a 1925 Country Life magazine.

General:

In the 1930's the owners of a farmhouse originally built in 1849 installed gardens around the house including a sunken rose garden, perennial borders, a cutting garden, and a formal terrace with a spring-fed fountain. These gardens were maintained by three generations of the Childs family and by the current owner when the 15-acre property was purchased in 1998. In 2005 a five-acre pasture was developed as a sculpture garden with contemporary works of art and complementary plantings. A dry stream bed (arroyo) that cuts through the property was turned into another garden, planted with iris, Japanese primrose, cranesbill and hosta. Between 2012 and 2015 a woodlands garden with a rustic pergola and hexagonal gazebo and a Japanese garden with a pagoda, French Art Deco gate and arched bridge were designed and installed. Some of the original perennial borders were updated with flowers in bolder colors but antique apple trees, another pergola with benches underneath for appreciating the views, a cider press, and outbuildings including a stone spring house have been preserved. A corn crib was converted into a guest cottage; a larger guest house near the main house has linear hedges and flower beds as well as a reflecting pool on the axis that leads to a sculpture.

The stone walls and hedges are meticulous, lawns are mowed in the crisscrossing pattern, and narrow brick paths have been set into wider mowed grass walkways. Clipped hedges with stone walls or artefacts highlight long views of these grounds toward distant mountains. There are two fenced vegetable gardens and a greenhouse. A large pond has a pond house nearby as well as a small sand beach. The garden has been included in tours sponsored by the Nature Conservancy and used by non-profit organizations for fund raising events. The owner is interested in preserving the property as a public space.

Persons associated with the garden include: F. Nelson and Florence Doubleday (former owners, -1931); Lowrie and Hortense Childs (former owners, 1931-1944); Charles S. and Helen Childs (former owners, 1944-1976); Charles (Pete) and Jane Childs (former owners, 1976-1998); Sylvia and Stanley Stroup (owners, 1998-2017); Stanley Stroup (owners, 2017-); Hortense Childs (house gardens designer, 1930's); North Hill Garden Design (sculpture garden and woodland garden designers, 2008 and 2007-2012); Ray Smith (Japanese garden designer, 2013); Sugar Rock Landscape (hardscape construction, 2008-2014); Janette Morrison and Ernie Dibble (gardeners, 1998- ); David Tamych (sculptor); Rita Dee (sculptor); Richard Erdman (sculptor); Phil Thorne (sculptor); Roger Di Taranto (sculptor); Thomas Ostenberg (sculptor); Mark Chatterley (sculptor); Hans Van de Bovencamp (sculptor); Peter Woytuk (sculptor); George Sherwood (sculptor); Curt Brill (sculptor); Royden Mills (sculptor).

Provenance:

The Bennington Garden Club facilitated the 2019 submission.

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Rights:

Restricted. No commercial use.

Topic:

Gardens -- Vermont -- Manchester  Search this

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File VT020

See more items in:

The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Vermont

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb697d382b1-0a06-446f-8320-d3d1c31d0d38

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref33198

Bay/Sound:

Puget Sound  Search this

Collector:

Jonathan Scordino  Search this

Andrea Gemmer  Search this

Ocean/Sea/Gulf:

North Pacific, Alaska-Canada Coastal Waters, Puget Sound  Search this

Length - Total:

242 cm

Preparation:

Partial Skeleton

Skull

Remarks:

baculum

Sex:

Male

Stage:

Adult

Place:

northwest of Hansville, Foulweather Bluff on nature conservancy land, Kitsap, Washington, United States, North America, North Pacific

Collection Date:

11 Mar 2003

Taxonomy:

Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Eutheria, Carnivora, Caniformia, Otariidae

Published Name:

Zalophus californianus

Accession Number:

2086443

Other Numbers:

Whale Field Number 1 : NMML 2163

Whale Field Number 2 : ZC-JJS-03-1

Ear tag : 457

Whale Field Number 3 : Brand 353

USNM Number:

605030

See more items in:

Vertebrate Zoology

Mammals

Data Source:

NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals Division

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3e2e7cb3a-281f-4346-854b-eb565f2af565

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhvz_14878959

Extent:

8.70 cu. ft. (9 document boxes) (7 12x17 boxes) (1 16x20 box)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Manuscripts

Date:

1846-1995

Descriptive Entry:

These records are the official minutes of the Board. They are compiled at the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian, who is also secretary to the Board, after approval by the Regents' Executive Committee and by the Regents themselves. The minutes are edited, not a verbatim account of proceedings. For reasons unknown, there are no manuscript minutes for the period from 1857 through 1890; and researchers must rely on printed minutes published in the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution instead. Minutes are transferred regularly from the Secretary's Office to the Archives. Minutes less than 15 years old are closed to researchers. Indexes exist for the period from 1907 to 1946 and can be useful.

Historical Note:

The Smithsonian Institution was created by authority of an Act of Congress approved August 10, 1846. The Act entrusted direction of the Smithsonian to a body called the Establishment, composed of the President; the Vice President; the Chief Justice of the United States; the secretaries of State, War, Navy, Interior, and Agriculture; the Attorney General; and the Postmaster General. In fact, however, the Establishment last met in 1877, and control of the Smithsonian has always been exercised by its Board of Regents. The membership of the Regents consists of the Vice President and the Chief Justice of the United States; three members each of the Senate and House of Representatives; two citizens of the District of Columbia; and seven citizens of the several states, no two from the same state. (Prior to 1970 the category of Citizen Regents not residents of Washington consisted of four members). By custom the Chief Justice is Chancellor. The office was at first held by the Vice President. However, when Millard Fillmore succeeded to the presidency on the death of Zachary Taylor in 1851, Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney was chosen in his stead. The office has always been filled by the Chief Justice since that time.

The Regents of the Smithsonian have included distinguished Americans from many walks of life. Ex officio members (Vice President) have been: Spiro T. Agnew, Chester A. Arthur, Allen W. Barkley, John C. Breckenridge, George Bush, Schuyler Colfax, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Curtis, George M. Dallas, Charles G. Dawes, Charles W. Fairbanks, Millard Fillmore, Gerald R. Ford, John N. Garner, Hannibal Hamlin, Thomas A. Hendricks, Garret A. Hobart, Hubert H. Humphrey, Andrew Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, William R. King, Thomas R. Marshall, Walter F. Mondale, Levi P. Morton, Richard M. Nixon, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, James S. Sherman, Adlai E. Stevenson, Harry S. Truman, Henry A. Wallace, William A. Wheeler, Henry Wilson.

Ex officio members (Chief Justice) have been: Roger B. Taney, Salmon P. Chase, Nathan Clifford, Morrison R. Waite, Samuel F. Miller, Melville W. Fuller, Edward D. White, William Howard Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan F. Stone, Fred M. Vinson, Earl Warren, Warren E. Burger.

Regents on the part of the Senate have been: Clinton P. Anderson, Newton Booth, Sidney Breese, Lewis Cass, Robert Milledge Charlton, Bennet Champ Clark, Francis M. Cockrell, Shelby Moore Cullom, Garrett Davis, Jefferson Davis, George Franklin Edmunds, George Evans, Edwin J. Garn, Walter F. George, Barry Goldwater, George Gray, Hannibal Hamlin, Nathaniel Peter Hill, George Frisbie Hoar, Henry French Hollis, Henry M. Jackson, William Lindsay, Henry Cabot Lodge, Medill McCormick, James Murray Mason, Samuel Bell Maxey, Robert B. Morgan, Frank E. Moss, Claiborne Pell, George Wharton Pepper, David A. Reed, Leverett Saltonstall, Hugh Scott, Alexander H. Smith, Robert A. Taft, Lyman Trumbull, Wallace H. White, Jr., Robert Enoch Withers.

Regents on the part of the House of Representatives have included: Edward P. Boland, Frank T. Bow, William Campbell Breckenridge, Overton Brooks, Benjamin Butterworth, Clarence Cannon, Lucius Cartrell, Hiester Clymer, William Colcock, William P. Cole, Jr., Maurice Connolly, Silvio O. Conte, Edward E. Cox, Edward H. Crump, John Dalzell, Nathaniel Deering, Hugh A. Dinsmore, William English, John Farnsworth, Scott Ferris, Graham Fitch, James Garfield, Charles L. Gifford, T. Alan Goldsborough, Frank L. Greene, Gerry Hazleton, Benjamin Hill, Henry Hilliard, Ebenezer Hoar, William Hough, William M. Howard, Albert Johnson, Leroy Johnson, Joseph Johnston, Michael Kirwan, James T. Lloyd, Robert Luce, Robert McClelland, Samuel K. McConnell, Jr., George H. Mahon, George McCrary, Edward McPherson, James R. Mann, George Perkins Marsh, Norman Y. Mineta, A. J. Monteague, R. Walton Moore, Walter H. Newton, Robert Dale Owen, James Patterson, William Phelps, Luke Poland, John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn, B. Carroll Reece, Ernest W. Roberts, Otho Robards Singleton, Frank Thompson, Jr., John M. Vorys, Hiram Warner, Joseph Wheeler.

Citizen Regents have been: David C. Acheson, Louis Agassiz, James B. Angell, Anne L. Armstrong, William Backhouse Astor, J. Paul Austin, Alexander Dallas Bache, George Edmund Badger, George Bancroft, Alexander Graham Bell, James Gabriel Berrett, John McPherson Berrien, Robert W. Bingham, Sayles Jenks Bowen, William G. Bowen, Robert S. Brookings, John Nicholas Brown, William A. M. Burden, Vannevar Bush, Charles F. Choate, Jr., Rufus Choate, Arthur H. Compton, Henry David Cooke, Henry Coppee, Samuel Sullivan Cox, Edward H. Crump, James Dwight Dana, Harvey N. Davis, William Lewis Dayton, Everette Lee Degolyer, Richard Delafield, Frederic A. Delano, Charles Devens, Matthew Gault Emery, Cornelius Conway Felton, Robert V. Fleming, Murray Gell-Mann, Robert F. Goheen, Asa Gray, George Gray, Crawford Hallock Greenwalt, Nancy Hanks, Caryl Parker Haskins, Gideon Hawley, John B. Henderson, John B. Henderson, Jr., A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Gardner Greene Hubbard, Charles Evans Hughes, Carlisle H. Humelsine, Jerome C. Hunsaker, William Preston Johnston, Irwin B. Laughlin, Walter Lenox, Augustus P. Loring, John Maclean, William Beans Magruder, John Walker Maury, Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, John C. Merriam, R. Walton Moore, Roland S. Morris, Dwight W. Morrow, Richard Olney, Peter Parker, Noah Porter, William Campbell Preston, Owen Josephus Roberts, Richard Rush, William Winston Seaton, Alexander Roby Shepherd, William Tecumseh Sherman, Otho Robards Singleton, Joseph Gilbert Totten, John Thomas Towers, Frederic C. Walcott, Richard Wallach, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., James E. Webb, James Clarke Welling, Andrew Dickson White, Henry White, Theodore Dwight Woolsey.

Topic:

Museums -- Administration  Search this

Museum trustees  Search this

Genre/Form:

Manuscripts

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 1, Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Minutes

Identifier:

Record Unit 1

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Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-sia-faru0001

Collector:

William R. Buck  Search this

Microhabitat Description:

on  Search this

Min. Elevation:

365  Search this

Place:

Town of Florida, Reed Brook Preserve of The Nature Conservancy, S of E end of Whitcomb Hill Road. Hill above Reed Brook., Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, North America

Collection Date:

7 May 1995

Taxonomy:

Fungi Ascomycota Lecanoromycetes Pertusariales Megasporaceae

Published Name:

Aspicilia cinerea (L.) Körb.

Barcode:

01032615

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Botany

Bryophytes and Lichens

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3cc2f5ef3-75d9-412a-8b14-fdaa840e5aa0

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_2873157

Biogeographical Region:

76 - Southwestern U.S.A.  Search this

Collector:

S. D. Sharnoff  Search this

S. Sharnoff  Search this

Place:

Humboldt Co, Lanphere- Christensen Dunes Nature Conservency Preserve, Humboldt, California, United States, North America

Collection Date:

6 May 1994

Taxonomy:

Fungi Ascomycota Lecanoromycetes Lecanorales Ramalinaceae

Published Name:

Niebla cephalota (Tuck.) Rundel & Bowler

Barcode:

02749954

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Botany

Bryophytes and Lichens

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3990c2151-a242-45b5-bb2e-64ec1cbfaa13

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_13876812

Biogeographical Region:

76 - Southwestern U.S.A.  Search this

Collector:

S. D. Sharnoff  Search this

S. Sharnoff  Search this

Min. Elevation:

20  Search this

Place:

Humboldt, W of Arcata, Lanphere-Christensen Dunes Nature Conservency Preserve, Humboldt, California, United States, North America

Collection Date:

6 May 1994

Taxonomy:

Fungi Ascomycota Lecanoromycetes Lecanorales Ramalinaceae

Published Name:

Niebla cephalota (Tuck.) Rundel & Bowler

Barcode:

02749959

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Botany

Bryophytes and Lichens

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/34058beea-5348-44ab-b7ff-50d97298bc68

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_13876818

Biogeographical Region:

76 - Southwestern U.S.A.  Search this

Collector:

S. D. Sharnoff  Search this

S. Sharnoff  Search this

Min. Elevation:

20  Search this

Place:

Humboldt Co., Lanphere-Christensen Dunes Nature Conservency Preserve, Humboldt, California, United States, North America

Collection Date:

6 May 1994

Taxonomy:

Fungi Ascomycota Lecanoromycetes Lecanorales Ramalinaceae

Published Name:

Niebla ceruchis (Ach.) Rundel & Bowler

Barcode:

02750018

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Botany

Bryophytes and Lichens

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3b03027be-81d6-46b7-ab76-53f0c2061497

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_13876887

Biogeographical Region:

74 - North-Central U.S.A.  Search this

Collector:

John W. Thomson  Search this

Microhabitat Description:

On limestone old wall.  Search this

Place:

Thomson Tract of Nature Conservancy, S of Blue Mounds., Iowa, Wisconsin, United States, North America

Collection Date:

9 Aug 1991

Taxonomy:

Fungi Ascomycota Lecanoromycetes Lecanorales Ramalinaceae

Published Name:

Lecanora erysibe (Ach.) Nyl.

Barcode:

02489822

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Botany

Bryophytes and Lichens

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3da1f019c-7e1a-41fd-b2d5-76885c96f387

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_13348479