scholarly journals Oceanic ichthyology : a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers "Blake," "Albatross," and "Fishhawk" in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas con by George Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean. Pub. in connection with the National Museum and the Smithsonian institution.

1896 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Brown Goode ◽  
Tarleton H. Bean ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Sea ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Pelagic Fishes ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Taxonomy of family Benthopectinidae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) in the Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (Suppl.1) ◽  
pp. 118-131
Author(s):  
Magdalena De los Palos-Peña ◽  
Francisco-Alonso Solís-Marín ◽  
Alfredo Laguarda-Figueras
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Sea Stars ◽  
Dichotomous Key ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World

Introduction: The family Benthopectinidae is composed of deep-sea sea stars distributed in eight genera and approximately 70 valid species. So far, only five species of this family have been reported for the Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Objective: To provide an updated local taxonomy of this family. Methods: A total of 566 specimens deposited in the Echinoderm National Collection, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, collected from 1952 to 2015, were taxonomically examined. Results: We present descriptions, photographs, and an illustrated dichotomous key for Benthopecten simplex simplex, Cheiraster (Barbadosaster) echinulatus, Cheiraster (Cheiraster) planus, Cheiraster (Christopheraster) blakei, and Cheiraster (Christopheraster) mirabilis in the region. Conclusions: The five studied species represent 6 % of the world biodiversity of the family and can now be identified with the illustrated key.

Third notice of transfer of cephalopods described and figured by Rousseau H. Flower

1990 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 1042-1043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald L. Wolberg
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Small Proportion ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
National Museum ◽  
The World ◽  
To Receive

Rousseau H. Flower (1913-1988) described and figured more than hundreds of fossil taxa, collected throughout the world, during his long and colorful career (Wolberg, 1988). Most of the fossils Flower worked with remain at the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources (NMBM&MR). Not surprisingly, given his interests in worldwide distributions of cephalopods and other groups, a rather small proportion of the fossils Rousseau worked with throughout his career were collected in New Mexico; a large proportion of the fossils actually belong to other institutions. The NMBM&MR continues to receive requests for published specimens and is making every effort to return loan material. The NMBM&MR also believes that the professional community would be best served by maintenance of the Flower/NMBM&MR fossils in a national repository. It was Rousseau's wish that the Smithsonian Institution/U. S. National Museum serve as one of the repositories of the NMBM&MR collections.

Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa, ed. Kathleen Bickford Berzock. Evanston, IL: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University; Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019, 312 pp., many colored ill. and maps.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 266-267
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
African Art ◽  
Major Task ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Northwestern University ◽  
Associate Director

This catalog accompanies a fascinating and innovative exhibition documenting the art in medieval Saharan Africa, first shown at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, from Jan. 26 to July 21, 2019, then at The Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, from Sept. 21 2019 to Feb. 23, 2020, and finally at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, April 8 to Nov. 29, 2020. To bring all those very valuable objects together and to organize this exhibit, represents a major task involving many people. Here I want to concentrate only on the catalog itself, magisterially edited by Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, Block Museum of Art.

Loss of sleep or loss of dark?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard G. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Mood Disorders ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
Short Distance ◽  
Water Surface ◽  
Ocean Floor ◽  
Physiological Adaptation ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Night And Day

Before electricity, night was something akin to the deep sea: just as we could not descend much below the water surface, we also could not investigate the night for more than a short distance, and for a short period of time. Things changed with two inventions: the Bathysphere to plumb the ocean floor, and electricity to light the night for sustained exploration. Exploration led to dominance, and night has become indistinguishable from day in many parts of the world. The benefits of electric light are myriad, but so too are the possible detriments of loss of dark at night, including poor sleep, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and mood disorders. Our primordial physiological adaptation to the night and day cycle is being flummoxed by the maladaptive signals coming from electric lighting around the clock. The topic of sleep and health has finally attained scientific respect, but dark and health is not yet fully appreciated.

The Environs of Tres Zapotes as the Find-Spot of the Tuxtla Statuette

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 747-764
Author(s):  
John Justeson ◽  
Christopher A. Pool ◽  
Ponciano Ortiz Ceballos ◽  
María del Carmen Rodríguez Martínez ◽  
Jane MacLaren Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Regional Center ◽  
San Andres

The famous greenstone figure known as the Tuxtla Statuette is one of only 12 objects known to bear an epi-Olmec inscription and was the first to become known to scholarship. For more than a century its original find-spot was imprecisely and erroneously identified as lying in the township of San Andrés Tuxtla or, more generally, in the Tuxtla Mountains. Correspondence in the National Anthropology Archives of the Smithsonian Institution documents that the figure was found on the Hacienda de Hueyapan de Mimendi, near the colossal head of Tres Zapotes. Archival research in Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology and the Archivo General del Estado de Veracruz, as well as interviews with descendants of owners of the Hacienda de Hueyapan and the statuette, allow us to confirm several features of the Smithsonian correspondence. The data indicate that the statuette was found within or very near the epi-Olmec regional center of Tres Zapotes and within the township of Santiago Tuxtla.

The Teodoro Vidal Collection: Creating Space for Latinos at the National Museum of American History

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Stephen Velasquez
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
American History ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Large Collection

During 1997 and 1998 the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History began a series of programs design to augment the Latino presence at the museum through the acquisition and presentation of a large collection from Puerto Rico, The Vidal Collection. This paper looks at the politics of creating a Latino presence at NMAH through the acquisition and presentation of a large Latino collection. Some of the issues to be explored are: how can a (national) Latino space and identity be created in a museum context, how is it contextualized (or re-contextualized) and represented, and what are the institutional ramifications of such initiatives?

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