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...Among them the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Science & Industry ("Rosenwald Industrial Museum"), Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum, Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
...friends, the clerks, kept him traveling. Owney came to the end of his journeys in Toledo. He bit a post-office clerk, and on June 12, 1897, he was shot. But such was Owney's fame that he was stuffed and placed in a glass case in the Smithsonian Institution. For 40 years Owney sat in his niche in the Smithsonian, awaiting a successor. It is now fairly certain there will never be another quite like him. Owney is a Post Office tradition...
Most positive proponent of the gliding theory is University of Michigan's Ichthyologist Carl Leavitt Hubbs, who published his observations in the annual report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1935. He testified that "flying fishes gain the momentum to get into the air with their rigid wings by a surface taxi of from 5 to 15 yards at a speed of about 10 yards a second, comparable to the speed of the best sprinters. This speed is attained by a sculling action of the tail fin. . . . To attain, the speed necessary to get into the air, an average...
...Smithsonian Institution's tireless Ales Hrdlicka recently caused an anthropological stir by discovering in the Aleutian Islands the skull of an Aleut which had a capacity of 2,005 cc. (TIME, Oct. 12). This was the largest on record in the Western Hemisphere, the largest anywhere except for one huge, famed Russian head: that of Novelist Ivan Turgenev which was measured at 2,030 cc. Last week a fragmentary skull found in Virginia and assembled at the Smithsonian outstripped even Turgenev's by an amazing margin, took indisputable first rank as the biggest head ever to pass under...
...fair price to landowners on whose property meteorites are discovered, whether they are aware or not of the scientific value of the prize. His usual price is $1 per Ib., but he may pay much more than that for unusually fine specimens. He has supplied meteorites to the Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University, Chicago's Field Museum, Manhattan's American Museum, museums in Mexico, England, France, Czechoslovakia...