Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...available was one published five years earlier in Belgium. The Belgians had catalogued 400 species. When Snyder published his definitive work on U.S. termites in 1935 (Our Enemy the Termite; Comstock Publishing Co., Inc.), the number of classified species had jumped to 1,915. Last week in Washington, the Smithsonian Institution was selling Snyder's latest work, a paperbound, 490-page publication entitled Catalog of the Termites (Isoptera) of the World-a revised classification of 1,932 species...
Gordon r. Willey of the Smithsonian Institution as Bowditch Professor of American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology...
...owls are still taking advantage of one of the Smithsonian's smaller towers...
...Roger Tory Peterson's Birds Over America, he says . . . "The secretary of the Smithsonian Institution has issued instructions that no one is to clean up the tower. It is to be left just as it is-a permanent haven for owls...
...TIME [April 25] I read this: "[Dr. C. G. Abbot] has worked as a research associate in an eleventh-floor retreat in the Smithsonian's 102-year-old tower, which was reclaimed from bats and owls to give him working quarters...