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A Revision of the Family Adelidae of the Western Hemisphere (Lepidoptera: Adeloidea)

Donald R. Davis and Matthew J. Medeiros

A Synopsis of Leucheria (Asteraceae, Nassauvieae), with Notes on the Morphology cover image

A Synopsis of Leucheria (Asteraceae, Nassauvieae), with Notes on the Morphology

Liliana Katinas, María José Apodaca, and Jorge V. Crisci

Aluminum: History, Technology and Conservation, Proceedings from the 2014 International Conference book cover

Aluminum: History, Technology and Conservation, Proceedings from the 2014 International Conference

Claudia Chemello, Malcom Collum, Paul Mardikian, Joe Sembrat, and Lisa Young

America’s Paper Money: A Canvas for an Emerging Nation

William L. Pressly

American Recent Eulipotyphla: Nesophontids, Solenodons, Moles, and Shrews in the New World book cover

American Recent Eulipotyphla: Nesophontids, Solenodons, Moles, and Shrews in the New World

Amphibians and Reptiles of Myanmar: Checklists and Keys. I. Amphibians, Crocodilians, and Turtles book cover

Amphibians and Reptiles of Myanmar: Checklists and Keys. I. Amphibians, Crocodilians, and Turtles

An Ecologically Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Flora at the Chesapeake Bay Center for Field Biology, with Keys: Updated Edition book cover

An Ecologically Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Flora at the Chesapeake Bay Center for Field Biology, with Keys: Updated Edition

Anatomy and Classification of the Mesophyllaceae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta), Based on Phylogenetic Principles

Athanasios Athanasiadis and David L. Ballantine

Behind the Exhibit: Displaying Science and Technology at World's Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century book cover

Behind the Exhibit: Displaying Science and Technology at World’s Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century

Elena Canadelli, Marco Beretta, and Laura Ronzon

Biological Anthropology of Latin America: Historical Development and Recent Advances book cover

Biological Anthropology of Latin America: Historical Development and Recent Advances

Douglas H. Ubelaker, Sonia E. Colantonio

Built Heritage Evaluation: Manual Using Simple Test Methods book cover

Built Heritage Evaluation: Manual Using Simple Test Methods

A. Elena Charola, Jorge Otero, Paula T. DePriest, and Robert J. Koestler

Catalog of Type Specimens of Recent Mammals: Orders Carnivora, Perissodactyla, Artiodactyla, and Cetacea in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution book cover

Catalog of Type Specimens of Recent Mammals: Orders Carnivora, Perissodactyla, Artiodactyla, and Cetacea in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Robert D. Fisher and Craig A. Ludwig

Challenging Collections: Approaches to the Heritage of Recent Science and Technology book cover

Challenging Collections: Approaches to the Heritage of Recent Science and Technology

Alison Boyle, Johannes-Geert Hagmann (Volume editor)

Complete Type Catalog of Trombiculidae sensu lato (Acari: Trombidiformes) of the U.S. National Entomology Collection, Smithsonian Institution book cover

Complete Type Catalog of Trombiculidae sensu lato (Acari: Trombidiformes) of the U.S. National Entomology Collection, Smithsonian Institution

Ricardo Bassini-Silva, Fernando de Castro Jacinavicius, Cal Welbourn, Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti, and Ron Ochoa

Connecting Women: National and International Networks during the Long Nineteenth Century book cover

Connecting Women: National and International Networks during the Long Nineteenth Century

Barton C. Hacker, Joanne Paisana, Margaret Esteves Pereira, Jaime Costa, and Margaret Vining

Conservation of the Exterior of the National Museum of the American Indian Building book cover

Conservation of the Exterior of the National Museum of the American Indian Building

Jane Sledge, Asuncion Elena Charola, Paula T. DePriest, Robert J. Koestler

Conspectus of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Gulf of California: Rhodophyta, Phaeophyceae, and Chlorophyta book cover

Conspectus of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Gulf of California: Rhodophyta, Phaeophyceae, and Chlorophyta

James N. Norris, Luis E. Aguilar-Rosas, Francisco F. Pedroche

Contextualizing Museum Collections at the Smithsonian Institution: The Relevance of Collections-Based Research in the Twenty-First Century book covers

Contextualizing Museum Collections at the Smithsonian Institution: The Relevance of Collections-Based Research in the Twenty-First Century

María Martínez-Martínez, Erin L. Sears, and Lauren Sieg

Culture Throughlines: Values, Visions and Transformation—African American Music, American Culture, and Society

William Banfield

Deception Island: Archaeology of 'Anyapax, Anacapa Island, California book cover

Deception Island: Archaeology of ‘Anyapax, Anacapa Island, California

Torben C. Rick and Leslie A. Reeder-Myers

Diversity in Pacific Slender-toed Geckos, Nactus pelagicus Complex (Reptilia: Squamata), of New Guinea and Adjacent Islands book cover

Diversity in Pacific Slender-toed Geckos, Nactus pelagicus Complex (Reptilia: Squamata), of New Guinea and Adjacent Islands

Economic Analyses of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods for Documenting Costs and Benefits book cover

Economic Analyses of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods for Documenting Costs and Benefits

David E. Schindel

El Futuro de Madre de Dios: Simulador de Paisajes Productivos del Smithsonian para un Desarrollo Sostenible book cover

El Futuro de Madre de Dios: Simulador de Paisajes Productivos del Smithsonian para un Desarrollo Sostenible

Hadrian Vanthomme, Ana María Sánchez-Cuervo, Paola Gárate, Adriana Bravo and Francisco Dallmeier

Evaluación del Patrimonio Construido: Manual de Ensayos Preliminares book cover

Evaluación del Patrimonio Construido: Manual de Ensayos Preliminares

A. Elena Charola, Jorge Otero, Paula T. DePriest, and Robert J. Koestler

Examination and Treatment Report for a Carpenter & Co. Lock Found at SERC: Museum Conservation Institute #6955 book cover

Examination and Treatment Report for a Carpenter & Co. Lock Found at SERC: Museum Conservation Institute #6955

Carol A. Grissom, E. Keats Webb, and Thomas Lam

Exhibiting America: The Smithsonian's National History Museum, 1881-2018 book cover

Exhibiting America: The Smithsonian’s National History Museum, 1881-2018

David K. Allison and Hannah Peterson

Fortuna Forest Reserve, Panama: Interacting Effects of Climate and Soils on the Biota of a Wet Premontane Tropical Forest book cover

Fortuna Forest Reserve, Panama: Interacting Effects of Climate and Soils on the Biota of a Wet Premontane Tropical Forest

James W. Dalling and Benjamin L. Turner

Fred Whipple's Empire: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955–1973 book cover

Fred Whipple’s Empire: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955–1973

David H. DeVorkin

From Ideas to Action: Transforming Learning to Inspire Action on Critical Global Issues book cover

From Ideas to Action: Transforming Learning to Inspire Action on Critical Global Issues

Going Beyond Appearances: Examination of Hidden Paint Layers in a Gulistan of Sa'di from the Freer Gallery of Art book cover

Going Beyond Appearances: Examination of Hidden Paint Layers in Gulistan of Sa’di from the Freer Gallery of Art

Elisabetta Polidori, Emily Jacobson and Blythe McCarthy

Grasses of Chihuahua, Mexico book cover

Grasses of Chihuahua, Mexico

Yolanda Herrera Arrieta, Paul Peterson

Grasses of Mali book cover

Grasses of Mali

Kamal M. Ibrahim, Shruti Dube, Paul M. Peterson, and Hasnaa A. Hosni

Green Persuasion: Advertising, Voluntarism, and America’s Public Lands book cover

Green Persuasion: Advertising, Voluntarism, and America’s Public Lands

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1: Introduction book cover

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1: Introduction

Japan in the Age of Modernization: The Arts of Ōtagaki Rengetsu and Tomioka Tessai

Laaxaayík, Near the Glacier: Indigenous History and Ecology at Yakutat Fiord, Alaska

Aron L. Crowell

Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) Mammalian Assemblage from Paw Paw Cove, Tilghman Island, Maryland book cover

Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) Mammalian Assemblage from Paw Paw Cove, Tilghman Island, Maryland

Ralph E. Eshelman, Darrin Lowery, Frederick Grady, Dan Wagner, H. Gregory McDonald

Marine Ecosystem Analysis of Gouldsboro and Dyer Bays, Maine book cover

Marine Ecosystem Analysis of Gouldsboro and Dyer Bays, Maine

Walter H. Adey, Thew S. Suskiewicz, and Douglas B. Rasher

Miocene Palynology of the Solimões Formation (Well 1-AS-105-AM), Western Brazilian Amazonia book cover

Miocene Palynology of the Solimões Formation (Well 1-AS-105-AM), Western Brazilian Amazonia

Carlos D'Apolito, Carlos Jaramillo, and Guy Harrington

Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies

Nomenclature of the Larger Toothed Whales (Odontocetes): A Historical Review

Thomas A. Jefferson, James G. Mead, and Carl C. Kinze

Phymatolithon (Melobesioideae, Hapalidiales) in the Boreal–Subarctic Transition Zone of the North Atlantic: A Correlation of Plastid DNA Markers with Morpho-Anatomy, Ecology, and Biogeography book cover

Phymatolithon (Melobesioideae, Hapalidiales) in the Boreal–Subarctic Transition Zone of the North Atlantic: A Correlation of Plastid DNA Markers with Morpho-Anatomy, Ecology, and Biogeography

Walter H. Adey, Jazmin J. Hernandez-Kantun, Paul W. Gabrielson, Merinda C. Nash, Lee-Ann C. Hayek

Plant Fossils from the Pennsylvanian–Permian Transition in Western Pangea, Abo Pass, New Mexico book cover

Plant Fossils from the Pennsylvanian–Permian Transition in Western Pangea, Abo Pass, New Mexico

William A. DiMichele, Spencer G. Lucas, Cindy V. Looy, Hans Kerp, Dan S. Chaney

Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Biology of the Sipuncula book cover

Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Biology of the Sipuncula

Michael J. Boyle and Gisele Y. Kawauchi (Editors)

Proceedings of the Smithsonian Institution Summit on the Museum Preservation Environment book cover

Proceedings of the Smithsonian Institution Summit on the Museum Preservation Environment

Sarah Stauderman, William G. Tompkins (Volume editors)

Producing Posies: A Technical Study of the Frances Jones Poetker Collection of Bouquet Holders at Smithsonian Gardens

Carol A. Grissom

Rodents (Mammalia) from Fitterer Ranch, Brule Formation (Oligocene), North Dakota book cover

Rodents (Mammalia) from Fitterer Ranch, Brule Formation (Oligocene), North Dakota

William W. Korth, Robert J. Emry, Clint A. Boyd, Jeff J. Person

Skeletal Anatomy of the North American Pangolin Patriomanis americana (Mammalia, Pholidota) from the Latest Eocene of Wyoming (USA) book cover

Skeletal Anatomy of the North American Pangolin

Timothy J. Gaudin, Robert J. Emry, and Jeremy Morris

Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guiana Shield: 1985–2014, Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Collections book cover

Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guiana Shield: 1985–2014, Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Collections

Carol L. Kelloff, Vicki A. Funk, Sara N. Alexander (Author)

Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guiana Shield: 2002-2012, Karen M. Redden and Kenneth J. Wurdack

Carol L. Kelloff, Karen M. Redden, Kenneth J. Wurdack, and Sara N. Alexander

Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guyana: 1992–2014 book cover

Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guyana: 1992–2014

Henkel, Terry W., Carol L. Kelloff, Sara N. Alexander, and Vicki A. Funk.

Stemming the Tide: Global Strategies for Sustaining Cultural Heritage through Climate Change book cover

Stemming the Tide: Global Strategies for Sustaining Cultural Heritage through Climate Change

Rebecca Rushfield

Sympatric Diversification in the Upper Amazon: A Revision of the Eumaeine Genus Paraspiculatus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) book cover

Sympatric Diversification in the Upper Amazon: A Revision of the Eumaeine Genus Paraspiculatus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

Robert C. Busby, Christophe Faynel, Alfred Moser, Robert K. Robbins

Taxonomic Revision of the Neotropical Genus Werneria (Compositae, Senecioneae) book cover

Taxonomic Revision of the Neotropical Genus Werneria (Compositae, Senecioneae)

Joel Calvo, Andrés Moreira-Muñoz and Vicki A. Funk

The Age of Plastic: Ingenuity and Responsibility: Proceedings of the 2012 MCI Symposium book cover

The Age of Plastic: Ingenuity and Responsibility: Proceedings of the 2012 MCI Symposium

Odile Madden, Asuncion Elena Charola, Kim Cullen Cobb, Paula T. DePriest, Robert J. Koestler (Volume editor)

The Annual Cycle and Natural History of a Subtropical Atlantic Forest Avifauna in Paraguay book cover

The Annual Cycle and Natural History of a Subtropical Atlantic Forest Avifauna in Paraguay

Mercedes S. Foster, Ned K. Johnson

The Future of Madre de Dios: Smithsonian's Working Landscape Simulator for Sustainable Development book cover

The Future of Madre de Dios: Smithsonian’s Working Landscape Simulator for Sustainable Development

Hadrien Vanthomme, Ana María Sánchez-Cuervo, Paola Gárate, Francisco Dallmeier and Adriana Bravo

The Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, USA book cover

The Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, USA

Stephen J. Godfrey

The Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, USA – Volume 2: Turtles and Toothed Whales

Stephen J. Godfrey

The Marine Benthic Algal Flora of Puerto Rico, I. Ochrophyta: Phaeophyceae, Pelagophyceae, and Xanthophyceae book cover

The Marine Benthic Algal Flora of Puerto Rico, I. Ochrophyta: Phaeophyceae, Pelagophyceae, and Xanthophyceae

David L. Ballantine, James N. Norris, and Hector Ruiz

The Marine Benthic Algal Flora of Puerto Rico, II. Chlorophyta and Prasinodermatophyta

David L. Ballantine, James N. Norris, and Hector Ruiz

The Mechanics of Art Materials and Its Future in Heritage Science book cover

The Mechanics of Art Materials and Its Future in Heritage Science

Dawn V. Rogala, Paula T. DePriest, A. Elena Charola and Robert J. Koestler

The Mesophotic, Coral Reef-Associated, Marine Algal Flora of Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea book cover

The Mesophotic, Coral Reef-Associated, Marine Algal Flora of Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea

David Ballantine, Hector Ruiz Torres, Nilda E. Aponte

The Neogene Record of Northern South American Native Ungulates book cover

The Neogene Record of Northern South American Native Ungulates

Juan D. Carrillo, Eli Amson, Carlos Jaramillo, Rodolfo Sánchez, Luis Quiroz, Carlos Cuartas, Aldo F. Rincón, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra

The Noninvasive Analysis of Painted Surfaces: Scientific Impact and Conservation Practice book cover

The Noninvasive Analysis of Painted Surfaces: Scientific Impact and Conservation Practice

Austin Nevin and Tiarna Doherty (Editors)

The Pennsylvanian System in the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, USA: Stratigraphy, Petrography, Depositional Systems, Paleontology, Biostratigraphy and Geologic History book cover

The Pennsylvanian System in the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, USA: Stratigraphy, Petrography, Depositional Systems, Paleontology, Biostratigraphy and Geologic History

Spencer G. Lucas, William A. DiMichele, Karl Krainer, James E. Barrick, Daniel Vachard, Michael P. Donovan, Cindy Looy, Hans Kerp and Dan S. Chaney

The Tenth Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposium: World War I and Its Immediate Aftermath, Select Papers book cover

The Tenth Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposium: World War I and Its Immediate Aftermath, Select Papers

The Unique Role of Federal Scientific Collections: Infrastructure Generating Benefits, Serving Diverse Agency Missions (A Report of the Interagency Working Group on Scientific Collections)

David E. Schindel, Diane C. DiEuliis, and Bruce Geyman

The Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposia: Select Papers from the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symposia book cover

The Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposia: Select Papers from the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symposia

The Word Illuminated: Form and Function of Qurʾanic Manuscripts from the Seventh to Seventeenth Centuries

Simon Rettig and Sana Mirza

Three New Early Middle Eocene Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Elderberry Canyon, Nevada, USA book cover

Three New Early Middle Eocene Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Elderberry Canyon, Nevada, USA

Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Gary S. Morgan, Robert J. Emry, Paul M. Gignac, and Haley D. O’Brien

Trobriand Tales, Kwanebuyee Kilivila: Folktales and Mythical Stories from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea, Collected by Jerry W. Leach and Held at the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution book cover

Trobriand Tales, Kwanebuyee Kilivila: Folktales and Mythical Stories from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea, Collected by Jerry W. Leach and Held at the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sergio Jarillo de la Torre

Type Specimens of Hawaiian Land Snails in the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, with Lectotype Designations book cover

Type Specimens of Hawaiian Land Snails in the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, with Lectotype Designations

Norine Yeung, Robert H Cowie, Kenneth A Hayes, Ellen E Strong

Understanding Paloue (Leguminosae: Detarioideae): Revision of a Predominantly Guiana Shield Endemic book cover

Understanding Paloue (Leguminosae: Detarioideae): Revision of a Predominantly Guiana Shield Endemic

Karen M. Redden, Patrick S. Herendeen, and Gwilym P. Lewis

Understanding Use: Objects in Museums of Science and Technology (Artefacts 13)

Tim Boon, Elizabeth Haines, Arnaud Dubois, and Klaus Staubermann

Vascular Plants of Maryland, USA: A Comprehensive Account of the State's Botanical Diversity book cover

Vascular Plants of Maryland, USA: A Comprehensive Account of the State’s Botanical Diversity

Wesley Knapp and Robert F. C. Naczi