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Farrell said he hopes to document around 17,000 species in total, including 10,000 species of insects and 6,000 plants—as part of an ecological study he is conducting with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and the Smithsonian Museum...
...everything from avoiding predators to finding a mate--can easily become confused. Yet even after years of studying these big-brained creatures, scientists admit that's only an informed guess and doesn't explain groundings elsewhere. "I could give you an unlimited number of scenarios," says veteran Smithsonian cetologist James Mead, "and because we know so little about whale biology, any of them is possible...
...favor the science of taxonomy has fallen since its heyday in the 19th century. The urge to classify the world's flora and fauna, which filled the great natural-history museums like New York City's American Museum of Natural History and Washington's Smithsonian Institution, has been eclipsed according to Hoffman by a preoccupation with molecular biology. "It's a sad situation," he says. "We're coasting on the glamour of biodiversity but losing the ability to identify the creatures on this planet." Even the ones in a big city park...
...spurned requests from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. to donate his work there. Instead, his work forms the foundation of the Fogg Art Museum and of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum’s Asian collections...
...times, it does seem impossible to discuss Sept. 11 without cliches and with any real clarity or substance. And, unfortunately, it does not seem like the Smithsonian even tried...