Baseball as America/Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves through Our National Game.

Baseball as America. National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum and Library, at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. March 16-August 18, 2002, traveling exhibition.
Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves through Our National Game. National Baseball Hall of Fame. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2002. 330 pp.     

Where Is "Africa"? Re-Viewing Art and Artifact in the Age of Globalization

The Sainsbury African Galleries. The British Museum, London. Long-term exhibition, opened March 2001.
African Worlds. The Horniman Museum and Gardens, London. Long-term exhibition, opened April 1999.
African Voices. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Long-term exhibition, opened December 1999.     

Spirit Capture: Photographs from the National Museum of the American Indian

Spirit Capture: Photographs from the National Museum of the American Indian. Tim Johnson. ed. Washington. DC. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, 1998. 206 pp.     

Mending Ways: The Canela Indians of Brazil

Mending Ways: The Canela Indians of Brazil. 1999. 52 minutes, color. video by Schecter Films/Smithsonian. For more information contact the Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, 10th and Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20560.     

Exhibit Review Essay

Book reviewed in this article:
Science in American Life . Arthur Molella, curator. Permanent exhibit at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, opened April 1994.     

Project description: DNA barcodes of bird species in the national museum of natural history, smithsonian institution, USA

The Division of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, has obtained and released DNA barcodes for 2808 frozen tissue samples. Of the 1,403 species represented by these samples, 1,147 species have not been barcoded previously. This data release increases the number of bird species with standard barcodes by 91%. These records meet the data standard of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life and they have the reserved keyword BARCODE in GenBank. The data are now available on GenBank and the Barcode of Life Data Systems.     

Darwin��s Busts and Public Evolutionary Outreach and Education

For the 1909 Darwin Centennial, the New York Academy of Sciences gave a large bronze bust of Charles Darwin to the American Museum of Natural History. Created by the well-known sculptor, William Couper, the bust was placed on its tall granite pedestal at the entrance at the newly designated exhibition hall, the Charles Darwin Hall of Invertebrate Zoology. Later that year, the American Museum ordered a bronze copy of the bust and presented it to Christ’s College, in Cambridge, England at the British Darwinian celebration. In 1935, Victor Von Hagen requested a plaster copy of the bust for a monument he was erecting on San Cristóbal in the Galapagos Islands to celebrate Darwin’s arrival in the Galapagos. During 1960, the American Museum of Natural History returned the original bronze bust to the New York Academy of Science, where it is now on display at its headquarters in New York City. To celebrate the Darwin bicentennial, the National Academy of Sciences recreated the bust in a computer-generated copy for display at their Washington, DC headquarters.     

中国胫槽叶蝉属三新种（同翅目：叶蝉科：缘脊叶蝉亚科）

本文报道中国缘脊叶蝉亚科肠槽叶蝉属Drabescus 3个新种,并列出了本属中国分布种名录。模式标本分别保存于西北农林科技大学昆虫博物馆(NWSUAF)、中国科学院动物研究所标本馆(IZAS)、美国自然博物馆(USNM)和英国伦敦自然博物馆(BMNH)。     

El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles

El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles. Photographs by Camilo José Vergara. National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., December 3, 1998-March 19, 1999; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York City, June 25-September 5, 1999; Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, January 29–July 16, 2000 (review venue); Graham Foundation, Chicago, November 15,2000–January 25,2001.
ElNuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles. Photographs by Camilo José Vergara. Gustavo Leclerc. Michael J. Dear. and J. Dallas Dishman. eds. Los Angeles: Southern California Studies Center, 2000.48 pp.     

Pacific Voices

Pacific Voices: Worlds within Our Community. Burke Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Seattle, Washington, permanent installation.     

Pomo Indian Basket Weavers. Their Baskets and the Art Market

Pomo Indian Basket Weavers. Their Baskets and the Art Market Grace Hudson Museum and Sun House, Ukiah, California, May through September 1998; National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 1998 through January 1999; National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, New York, May 9through August 15, 1999 (review venue); University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, October 1999 through September 2000.
Pomo Indian Basket Weavers. Their Baskets and the Art Market. Special issue of Expedition, The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 40(1), 1998.     

Drawing Shadows to Stone

Drawing Shadows to Stone: Photographing North Pacific Peoples (1897-1902). American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, November 14, 1997- March 1, 1998.
Drawing Shadows to Stone: The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902. Laurel Kendall. Barbara Mathé. and Thomas Ross Miller. with Stanley A. Freed. Ruth S. Freed. and Laila Williamson. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1997, and Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. 112 pp., 97 illust.     

Redescription of the fish parasite Lernanthropus polynemi Richiardi, 1881 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) and relegation of two congeners to synonymy

Lernanthropus polynemi Richiardi, 1881 is described, for the first time since its original discovery, based on the type-material found in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany. Morphological features of this parasite, which infects the commercially-caught fish Eleutheronema tetradactylum (Shaw), are described and illustrated, including those of the male, which is described for the first time. The types of another species from the same host, L. lappaceus Wilson, 1912, and deposited in the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC, are also examined based on the type-specimens. The types of a third congener, L. trifoliatus Basset-Smith, 1898, also from the same host, are not available, but the original illustrations are studied. It is considered that the three nominal species described from E. tetradactylum represent a single taxon, and that L. lappaceus and L. trifoliatus be relegated to synonymy with L. polynemi.     

Catalogue of neritic-benthonic echinoderms (Echinodermata: Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea) from the Cuban Archipelago

This is an updated taxonomic catalogue of neritic-benthonic Echinodermata (Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea) from Cuba, that includes locality, range, habitat and depth where each species is found. The species list is based on the collections of the Oceanology Institute; Havana; the "Felipe Poey" Museum (Havana University) and the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Specimens for those collections were captured by a variety of field techniques, narcotized with Cloral hydrate, fixed in formalin and stored in 70-80% alcohol. A total of 75 species have been identified from Cuban waters: Asteroidea (20 species) and Ophiuroidea (55 species).     

Woven by the Grandmothers

Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian. The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, February 1-April 26,1998.
Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian. Eulalie H. Bonar. ed. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. 214 pp.     

New records and updated checklist of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from Lao People's Democratic Republic,with special emphasis on adult and larval surveillance in Khammuane Province

A list of mosquitoes from the Nakai Nam Theun National Protected Area along the Nam Theun, Nam Mon, Nam Noy, and Nam On rivers, Nakai District, Khammuane Province, Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is presented. Fifty‐four mosquito taxa were identified, including 15 new records in the Lao PDR. A fragment of the mtDNA cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene, barcode region, was generated for 34 specimens, and together with four specimens already published, it represented 23 species in eight genera. In addition, an updated checklist of 170 mosquito taxa from Lao PDR is provided based on field collections from Khammuane Province, the literature, and specimens deposited in the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History (SI‐NMNH), Washington, DC, U.S.A. This paper provides additional information about the biodiversity of mosquito fauna in Lao PDR.     

Echinoderms (Echinodermata) from the Gulf of California, Mexico

A systematic list of the echinoderms of the Gulf of California, based on museum specimens of the Colección Nacional de Equinodermos, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. is presented. A total of 193 echinoderm species is recorded, distributed in 108 genera, 51 families and 19 orders. 12 new records for the Gulf of California are presented: Asteroidea (four), Ophiuroidea (three) and Holothuroidea (five).     

Applicability of ptilochronology as a conservation tool in waterbird studies

Ptilochronology is a cost effective tool for determining the nutritional condition of birds. The technique uses the daily growth of feathers to decipher diet and habitat quality as well as contaminant load. To date, most studies using ptilochronology have focused primarily on passerines. The use of the technique in other orders, primarily waterbirds, could lead to a significant increase in their utility as bioindicators of estuarine health. I performed a survey of study skins from the Museum of Natural History in New York, NY and the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, DC to determine whether feather growth bars are present in waterbird species. Three hundred specimens representing 52 species were examined (orders: Pelicaniformes, Suliformes, Gruiformes). Few species did not possess discernible feather growth-bars, and in one case, this may be attributed to a nocturnal foraging habit. Because the majority of species did exhibit measurable growth-bars, it seems as though ptilochronology can be applied in waterbird studies as an efficient tool for management purposes in estuarine habitats.     

Museum Exhibit and Photographic Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Seeds of Change: 500 Years of Encounter and Exchange . National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Seeds of Change: A Quincentennial Commemoration . Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis , eds.     

An annotated list of the mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of Mississippi

There has been no previous systematic statewide study of mosquitoes in Mississippi. This survey, resulting in the collection of over 400,000 specimens, was conducted by the authors from 2003 to 2007 throughout much of the state using CO₂‐baited CDC light traps and larval dipping. In addition, a health department contract mosquito surveillance technician collected several thousand specimens from the state from 2001 to 2003. Lastly, specimens housed at the Mississippi State University Entomological Museum, obtained from previous surveys, were included as vouchers for species occurring in the state. The collection records and literature show 60 species as occurring or having occurred in Mississippi. Voucher specimens representing 57 of the 60 species discussed are deposited in the Mississippi Entomological Museum or in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Washington, D.C.