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Title: Programme of organization of the Smithsonian Institution. (Presented to the Board of Regents, Dec. 8, 1847.)
Identifier(s): text:832; APSimg6710; Goodman Number: 57
Description: Includes an introduction giving "general considerations which should serve as a guide in adopting a plan of organization," as well as "details of the plan to increase knowledge," "details of the plan for diffusing knowledge," and "plan of organization...providing for the two modes of increasing and diffusing knowledge."; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Smithsonian Institution
Source: Elisha Kent Kane Papers. Printed Material. (Mss.B.K132.p); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.K132.p-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Smithsonian Institution; Organizational rules; Natural history
Date: 1847

Title: Registry of periodical phenomena. 185-
Identifier(s): text:679; APSimg6692; Goodman Number: 249
Description: Includes space for recording desired first appearance of phenomena of nearly 100 species of plants. Page 3 requests information on specific reptiles, fish, insects, and "general phenomena of climate." Page 4 requests specimens on microscopic animals and gives instructions for obtaining the same.
Creator: Smithsonian Institution
Source: Michael Jacobs Meteorological Notebook (Mss.551.5.J12);
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Natural history; Animals; Bird watching; Plants
Date: 185_

Title: Hunt, George: From Bureau of American Ethnology. 1918 Apr. 14
Identifier(s): text:65502
Description: Receipt.
Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians
Date: 1918 Apr. 14

Title: 8-6-l: William Terrill Bradby
Identifier(s): graphics:4163; local: APSimg6804
Description: Black and white portriat photograph of Pamunkey man, in native attire with head-dress, seated holding a stone tomahawk.; Image (8-6-L); Freeman guide #4688b.; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.et al
Subject: Native American Images; Virginia; Pamunkey Indians
Date: 1921-1941