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...later and he might not have noticed the rock, much less stooped to pick it up. But the early morning sunlight slanting across the Namibian desert in southwestern Africa happened to illuminate momentarily some strange squiggles on a chunk of sandstone. At first Douglas Erwin, a paleobiologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, wondered if the meandering markings might be dried-up curls of prehistoric sea mud. But no, he decided after studying the patterns for a while, these were burrows carved by a small, wormlike creature that arose in long-vanished subtropical seas - an archaic organism that, as Erwin...
Professors at the Fogg will quickly tell you they have an equally extensive and prestigious list of benefactors to thank. Perhaps the greatest of all was Grenville Winthrop (Class of 1886) who once gave 155 drawings to the Fogg instead of the Smithsonian because he felt the Cambridge museum would stress the education of the young rather than the pleasure of the general public...
...Smithsonian Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner '70 described the Hubble Space Telescope's value as a research tool in remarks made at the preview of the Museum of Science's newest planetarium film yesterday...
Lamont's current collection of CD-ROMs consists of 12 titles in both Macintosh and IBM format, including Smithsonian's America, Microsoft Art: The National Gallery, and Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time...
This is not a giant lost and found. People's remains were not lost, they were dug up, usually with hefty grants from the University, the Smithsonian or some government agency. And hundreds of Harvard graduates, whether undergraduate students, graduate students or now-tenured professors at some institutions benefited additionally, receiving their degrees based on this work...