Things new & strange : a Southerner's journey through the Smithsonian collections / G. Wayne Clough ; foreword by Lester D. Stephens.
"Things new and strange chronicles a research quest undertaken by G. Wayne Clough, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution born in the South. Soon after retiring from the Smithsonian, Clough decided to see what the Smithsonian collections could tell him about South Georgia, where he...
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Athens : [Washington, D.C.] :
The University of Georgia Press ; Published in association with the Smithsonian Institution,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Recollections of a South Georgia childhood
- The process of discovery
- Beginning with fossils: how a fossil mystery leads to a story of two
- Lost eras
- Book learning
- Mammals: how what I saw came to be
- Birds and the stories they tell of the people who collect them
- Amphibians, reptiles, and a detour into my family history
- So many specimens, so little time: insects, trees, plants, fishes, and
- Crawfish
- Geology: rocks, minerals, meteorites, and the people who love them
- Early Native American civilizations: a long story cut short
- The end of one era leads to the beginning of another
- Gullah Geechee: a Georgia culture unto itself
- South Georgia arts and artists
- Jimmy Carter
- Reflections.