Containers:

Item 7

Dates:

1947-1960

Scope and content:

This scrapbook collects articles about the Natural History Museum dated 1947-1960. Includes reports on Clinton Abbott's successor, Colonel Arthur F. Fischer, as director of the Natural History Museum. Reportedly, the Natural History Museum remained closed to the public until August 1949, and reopened in time to celebrate the Society of Natural History's 75th anniversary. Articles include reports on the work involved to convert the building from a temporary hospital back into a museum and the educational programs that continued despite the museum's closure under the supervision of curator of entomology Charles F. Harbison. Includes article spotlights on scientists that worked with the museum, including a "Who's who in San Diego" series on both Laurence Klauber and Lee Passmore, and a yearly articles on curator of Botany Ethel Baily Higgins as she continued to work well into her 90s. Includes articles on the death of Griffing Bancroft, and one article on Charles Lindbergh, who reportedly charted his trans-Atlantic flight in the San Diego Public Library. Clippings report the acquisitions of the Museum's two-story pendulum and a seismograph. Articles report that the seismograph detected tremors caused by an underground nuclear blast in Yucca Flats, Nevada. 102 pages.

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