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Charles Walcott and the Smithsonian’s scientific empire
Charles Doolittle Walcott the famed geologist and administrator shaped American science through the Smithsonian National Museum the United States Geological Survey and the National Academy of Sciences. He led the reclamation service and the national advisory committee for aeronautics and helped steer the research council. His work fostered international park preservation and a broad scientific outreach across nations and institutions.
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Natural Sciences
Philadelphia
Hayden
National Academy of Sciences
Mary Clark Thompson
United Stons Geological Survey
United States National Museum
Smithsonian
American Journal of Science
John Dickinson Sherman
Charles Doolittle Walcott
America
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Walcott
United States Geological Survey
American Association For the Advancement of Science
AA. A. 8
Tt Hina
United States
Canada
Canaon
Congress
Waterpower Commission
Dominion of Canada
National Parks Army of Defense
National Parks Association
National Parks Association of Canada
Dominion
Montréal
Vancouver
North Ameria
J. B. Harkin
S .P. Marher
National Park Servicer
de. Walcott
New York Mills
N.Y
Utica Academy
Jersois
Trenton Waly
Louis Agassiz
James Lull
New York
Llamilton
University of Chicago
Johns Hopkins
University of Pennsylvania
Doctor Walcott
James Smithson
United States of America
Uot
Hugh Smithson
Percy
Duke of Northumberland
James
France
England
Pembroke College
Oxford
Smithson
Genoa
San Benigno
Alexander Graham Bell
Mortery
Institution
Thomas G. Hodgkins
Linkinsonian Institution
Elef Justice
Presk Dlen
National Gallery of Art
Bureau of American Ethnology
National Zoological Park
Astrophysical Observatory
National Research Council
International