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...band also reported no response to its request that the Smithsonian Institute make room for the old drum, which expired last month...
...With congressional permission, the Mellon grant was deposited in the Treasury and guaranteed 4% interest. The Library of Congress gets 4% on a similar deposit, and the Smithsonian Institution draws...
...milling through the star-punctured house, and telegrams and phone calls were streaming into Sylacauga. Scientists begged the Hodges not to damage the meteorite. Lawyer Love, asking $5,000 for it, reported that agents of a Muncie, Ind. munitions manufacturer were flying to Sylacauga to outbid everyone else. The Smithsonian in Washington was interested too, but was not talking serious money. Mayor Howard declared that the meteorite would eventually come to rest in the State Museum of Natural History. Hewlett Hodges felt otherwise. "The mayor," he said, "had better wise up to things...
About 98% of the atoms in the human body are renewed each year. This surprising fact is discussed by Dr. Paul C. Aebersold of Oak Ridge in the latest Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Aebersold based his conclusion on experiments with radioisotopes, which trace the movements of chemical elements in and out of the body...
This year, more than a century later, Catlin's triumph was again underlined by a touring exhibition of his work in Europe. Sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency and (and supplied by the Smithsonian Institution), it arrived in the French town of Valenciennes after being in Essen, Munich and Hamburg. As visual, visitors found Catlin's pictures just as surprising and intriguing as their great-grandfathers...