Object Details
- Author
- Clark, Chip
- Subject
- Pawson, David
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Smithsonian Institution Research Reports Spring 1980
- Summary
- Dr. David Pawson, curator of echinoderms at the National Museum of Natural History, sits at a table on which there is a microscope. He became interested in the holothurians, or sea cucumbers, in 1959 when his oceanographic vessel working off the coast of New Zealand brought a netful of deep-sea Echinoderms up from almost two miles down. Over the next five years, Pawson devoted most of his time to research on shallow-water sea cucumbers but he remained curious about their deep-sea relatives.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-016, Box 1, Folder: Research Reports Spring 1980
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1980
- Standard number
- SIA2009-2206
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Museum curators
- Scientific apparatus and instruments
- Microscopes
- Scientists
- Sea cucumbers
- Echinoderms
- Holothurnians
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Invertebrate Zoology
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8080
