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Physical description:
Gelatin silver prints; 8 x 10;
Type:
Black-and-white photographs
Place:
Brazil
Date:
1977
Notes:
Featured in the "Torch," December 1977.
Summary:
Caption from Torch: "Imagine the surprise of MNH Botanist Emeritus Lyman Smith when, clearing his in-box one November day, he took out the correspondence pictured above. It was his name that appeared on the first-day cover of a beautiful bromeliad which Smith reclassified in 1939. He was unaware that Brazil planned to issue the 1.30 cruzeiro stamp. The plant was originally identified and named by Beer in 1857, but Smith corrected the genus and renamed the plant Neoregelia carolinae. Although the Latin names of plants have appeared on stamps before, this is the first time the scientists' names have been printed. Below the image are the stamp designer and engraving office."
Cite as:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: December 1977, Image No. 96-928
Repository Loc.:
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
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