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John Abbot
Entomologist & ornithologist
William Louis Abbott
Renaissance man
Robert McCormick Adams
Archaeologist & ninth Smithsonian secretary
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John Warren Aldrich
Ornithologist
Charles Paul Alexander
Entomologist
Elmer Ivan Applegate
Botanist
William Harris Ashmead
Entomologist
Wilbur Olin Atwater
Curator of food, yes, food.
Alexander Dallas Bache
Physicist & surveyor
Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey
Vernon Orlando Bailey
Naturalist
Herbert Spencer Barber
Entomologist
Alice Pike Barney
Artist (see article)
Paul Bartsch
Malacologist & carcinologist
Carl Barus
Physicist
Silvio Bedini
Science historian
Gustav Wilhelm Belfrage
Insect collector
Charles Bendire
Surgeon & ornithologist
Arthur Cleveland Bent
Ornithologist
Joseph Charles Bequaert
Entomologist, malaclogist
Andrew John Berger
Ornithologist
Samuel Stillman Berry
Zoologist
Richard Eliot Blackwelder
Zoologist
Richard S. Boardman
Paleontologist
Robert Angus Brooks
Philologist
Nellie A. Brown
Botanist
Oscar Ling Cartwright
Entomologist
Doris Mable Cochran
herpetologist
Johnnetta B. Cole
Museum director
Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr.
Entomologist
William T. Evans
Art collector
Edna H. Fawcett
Botanist
Augustus Fendler
Natural history collector
Asa Fitch
First person to study agriculture & entomology
William F. Foshag
Geologist
Helen Morgenthau Fox
Botanist
Herbert Friedmann
Ornithologist
George Gibbs
Geologist
David Crockett Graham
Natural History Collector & Anthropologist
George Brown Goode
Scientist & museum administrator
Mackenzie Gordon, Jr.
Invertebrate paleontologist
Alice Haskins
Botanist
Florence Hedges
Botanist
Joseph Henry
Scientist & first secretary of the Smithsonian
I. Michael Heyman
Lawyer & 10th Smithsonian secretary
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Joseph Hirshhorn
Art collector & founder of the Hirshhorn Museum
Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.
Carcinologst
Charles Robert Knight
Wildlife artist
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Astrophysicist & third Smithsonian secretary
Lucia McCulloch
Botanist
Forrest Pogue
Military historian
Agnes J. Quirk
Botanist
John Reinhardt
Museum director & ambassador to Nigeria
S. Dillon Ripley
Ornithologist & eight secretary of the Smithsonian
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Warren M. Robbins
Museum director
Lawrence M. Small
Businessman & 11th secretary for the Smithsonian
Robert Evans Snodgrass
Entomologist
Samuel Mills Tracy
Botanist
Alfred Vail
Inventor
John Paul Visscher
Protozoologist
Wesley Wait
Inventor and dental surgeon
Charles Doolittle Walcott
Paleontologist & fourth Smithsonian secretary
Mary Vaux Walcott
Scientific illustrator
Benjamin Dann Walsh
State Entomologist of Illinois
Alexander Wetmore
Ornithologist & sixth Smithsonian secretary
Fred Lawrence Whipple
Astronomer
J. Laurens Barnard
Carcinologist
Qinli Wu
Review of Biological contributions needed
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Mary K. Berger
Botanist < mislabeled. This is Mary K. Bryan .
Amina Dickerson
Program director
Patricia L. Fiske
Museum director & curator
Sharon Patton
African art historian and museum director
Lydia Puccinelli
Art historian & curator
Qinli Wu
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Lisa Taylor
museum administrator, Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Ruel P. Tolman
Curator, art museum director, graphic artist
Qinli Wu
Review of curator experience and contributions needed
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Joshua Irving Tracey
Geologist, pioneered work supporting Darwin's theory on atolls.
James C. Tyler
Smithsonian museum admin, ichthyology
John Varden
Museum admin, patent office collector, Smithsonian staff
Egbert Hamilton Walker
Botanist, researcher at Smithsonian
Ernest Pillsbury Walker
Associate director of National Zoo, fur game warden of Alaska, wildlife management
George W. Watson
curator, ornithologist < George Elder Watson
Charles K. Wead
Patent officer
Sylvia Williams
Museum director & art historian
Philip W. Wolle
Citizen algae scientist
Ellis L. Yochelson
paleontologist, fossil mollusks[
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Expeditions and Explorers Field Notes To-do list[ edit ]
Every person and expedition listed in this to-do list is included in the Field Book Project and in the Smithsonian Institution Archives . Here you will find a link to an article that needs improvement or an article that needs to be created. You will also find images and other resources to help you get started and other Smithsonian Institution resources for use!
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Mary Agnes Chase
botanist and suffragette image
Doris Mable Cochran
herpetologist
Edgar Alexander Mearns
ornithologist
United States and Mexican Boundary Survey (1848-1855)
1.Minor editing on body of text, added URL to full text of Report on the US and Mexican Boundary Survey document on BHL, will add to body of text at the later date. (full- text :http://ia600605.us.archive.org/9/items/mobot31753002023569/mobot31753002023569.pdf )
Edmund Heller
zoologist
Cleofé Caldéron
botanist
Rediscovered Anomochloa in 1976 with assistant Sr. Talmon dos Santos in Bahia, Brazil. This tropical forest grass had died out, so this was a tremendous discovery and set the path for Judziewicz and Soderstrom (1989) to do a detailed morphological and anatomical study. This study confirmed Anomochloa was a grass and offered insight into its peculiar flowering structures.
Deposited approximately 1000 collections, many of them bamboo, at the U.S. National Herbarium
Discovered and named approx. 20 taxa
John Alden Loring
mammologist and field naturalist
Represented the Smithsonian Institution as member and designated specialist to preserve specimens for the 1909 African Expedition
Provided 1905 survey of Buffalo on Wichita Forest and Game Reserve or “Wichita Buffalo Range” for New York Zoological Society
Assistant Curator (care for animals) of National Zoological Park under Hornaday
James Eike
bird watcher
President (1950 – 1952, 1969-1971; VP ‘67-‘68) and long-standing executive committee member of Virginia Society of Ornithology (Chairman of various sections, too)
Virginia Society of Ornithology (VSO) James W. Eike Service Award created in his honor in 1984
Papers held by Smithsonian Institution Archives – over 111 field books – part of Field Book Registry
Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition
members of the party
Expedition organized as first big post-presidency event for Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt and son Kermit and Smithsonian-sponsored scientists
Amassed a collection of 23,151 natural history specimens, totaling 160 species of carnivores, ungulates, rodents, insectivores, and bats
All Field Books held by SIA & NMNH
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