Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...organization has grown rapidly and has fulfilled its purpose of bringing together the most eminent active ornithologists in the country, and of regulating the nomenclature of North American birds. Among speakers at the present convention are officers of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, and of the Department of Agriculture at Washington...
...Semitic Department, of which he is chairman; Professor D. G. Lyon, the curator, will describe the history and growth of the Museum, and Professor C. E. Norton will speak for the Board of Overseers. An address will also be made by Dr. Cyrus Adler, librarian of the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, and curator of the Semitic section of the National Museum. The exercises will be followed by an inspection of the collections by the invited guests...
...Photographic assistant in the Smithsonian Institution...
...Charles William Dabney, president of the University of Tennessee; Horace Howard Furness, editor of the Variorum edition of Shakespeare's Works; Basil Lanneau Gildereleeve, professor of Greek in Johns Hopkins University; John Shaw Billings, director of the New York Public Library; Samu-1 Pierp nt Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Henry Codman Potter, bishop of New York; Melville-Weston Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States; Seth Low, for many years president of Columbia University; Thomas Bailey Aldrich, for many years editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Century Magazine; William Dean Howells, formerly editor...
...Richard Olney, L. S. '8 has been appointed to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution...