7. Washington Post, March 7, 1917. 



8. Ravenel, W. de C. 1921. Annual report for fiscal year 

 1921, p. 29. 



9. Holmes, W. H. 1929. Annual report of the National 

 Gallery of Art for 1929. 



10. Smithsonian year 1976, p. 101. 



11. Seltzer, R. 1969. Local Niiiirod gives tiger to 

 Smithsonian. Philadelphia Inquirer, (Oct. 19). 



12. Rathbim, R. 1913. A descriptive account of the 

 building recently erected from the departments of 

 natural history of the United States National Museum. 

 United States National Museum Bulletin 80, p. 52. 



13. Ravenel, W. de C. 1922. Annual report for the year 

 ending fune 30, 1922, p. 18. 



14. Ravenel, W. de C. 1924. Annual report jor the year 

 ending June 30, 1924, p. 19. 



15. Wetmore, A. 1929. Annual report jor the year eliding 

 June 30, 1929, p. 29. 



16. Carmichael, L. 1959. Annual report for the year ending 

 June 30, 1958, p. 6. 



17. Wetmore, A. 1929. Annual report for the year endijig 

 June 30, 1929. 



18. Harney, T. The National Museum of Natural History. 

 Thirty-nine-page typescript in the files of the 

 director's Office 



22. Outside the Building 



1. Rathbun, R. 1912. Annual report for the year ending June 

 30, 1912, p. 17. 



2. Ravenel, W. de C. 1923. Annual report for the year 

 ending June 30, 1923, p. 17. 



23. The Collections 



1. Judd, N. M. 1968. Men met along the trail: Adventures in 

 archeology, p. 49. 



2. Yochelson, E. L. 1969. Fossils — the how and why of 

 collecting and storing. In Natural Histoiy Collections — 

 Past — Present — Future. Proceedings of Biological Society of 

 Washington, 82:585-602. 



3. Ripley, S. D. 1972. On museum objects, truth, and 

 education. Reflections of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution upon the one-hundred and tweyity-fifth 

 anniversary of its founding. Washington: Smithsonian 

 Institution Press. 



4. Harney, T. 1978. The magnificent foragers. Washington: 

 Smithsonian Exposition Books, p. 233. 



5. Leslie, P. 977. "A report on the management of 

 collections in the museums of the Smithsonian 

 Institution." 131 pp., plus appendices; unpublished. 



6. Ibid., A-47. 



7. Ripley, S. D. 1982. Smithsonian Year 1981, pp. 3-4. 



8. McCombs, P. 1983. The $50 million closet. Washington 

 Post (May 10). 



9. The quote is verse three of a nine-verse "Ode to the 

 Museum Support Center" read by Charles Osgood on 

 the CBS radio network. May 16, 1983. The full text is 

 in the Torch, ]u\y 1983. 



10. A comment made in 1984 by David Challinor, 

 Assistant Secretary for Science. 



1 1. Goode, G. Brown. 1 185. The principles of museum 

 administration. Annual report of the Museum Association 

 for 1895, p. 73. 



About the author 



Ellis L. Yochelson, a paleontologist with the LJ.S. Geo- 

 logical Survey from 1952 until his retirement in 1985, 

 has had an office over the years in the National Museum 

 of Natural History building; since 1967 he has been a 

 research associate in the Museum's Department of Pa- 

 leobiology. A specialist in extinct mollusks, concen- 

 trating on the evolution of gastropods. Dr. Yochelson 

 received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of 

 Kansas and a Ph.D. from Columbia. He is a native of 

 Washington, D.C., who attributes his interest in fossils 

 to a mid-I930's trip to the Natural History Building 

 where he saw the dinosaur exhibit for the first time. 



Dr. Yochelson has written some 200 articles, reviews, 

 and professional papers on paleontology. The many 

 offices he has held include: president of the Paleon- 

 tological Society; secretary of the Society of Systematic 

 Zoology; organizer of the First North American Pa- 

 leontological Congress; secretary-general of the Ninth 

 International Carboniferous Congress; and, currently, 

 secretary of the History of Earth Sciences Society. 



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