The Magnificent ForagersText and more than 300 photographs present accounts of field work of scientists of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, in sites in the Antarctic, Central America, Africa, Australia, and other parts of the world. |
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The Tradition | 11 |
The Solitary Researcher | 28 |
Two Islands | 54 |
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