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Biological Collections - Animals

Birds

Wild Turkey Tail fan
Wild Turkey on trail

Dr. Madison Spencer Briscoe, Storer College, & Harper’s Ferry National Historic Park

Dr. Madiscon Spencer Briscoe
laboratory classroom at Storer College where students received instruction from Dr. Briscoe
Painted snails
Shell
Turtle skull
Early Storer College Campus

Insects

Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly
Great Blue Skimmer
Rosy Maple Moth
American Grasshopper
Carolina Grasshopper
Giant Water Bug
Broadwinged Katydid
Japanese Mystery Snail
Monarch Butterfly
Monarch Butterfly

Mammals

Beaver chewing on stick
Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly
Big Brown Bat
Beaver skull
White-footed Mouse

Reptiles and Amphibians

Turtle Skull
Copperhead Snake coiled up in a bed of leaves
Copperhead Snake skin
Box Turtle shell

Biological Collections - Plants

Helen Shaw Fowler and Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens

Helen Shaw
Field Pink lotuses (flowers)
Bee on Pink lotus flower
Painting showing a white lotus flower
Painting showing three white lotus flowers
Pastel painting showing three Blue Water Lilies in a white vase
Pastel painting showing three cut Yellow Lotuses and Wild Rice in a Vase
Pastel painting of a pink lotus
Pastel painting of a pink lotus
Pastel painting showing cut water lilies in vase
Pastel painting with five blue water lilies in a round glass vase
Three Cut White Water Lilies in glass Vase
Pastel painting featuring a pink night-blooming water lily
Pastel painting of five white water lilies in clear rectangular vase
Pastel painting of three Water Lilies Floating on Pond
Seeds from lotus flowers (Nelumbo sp.)

Cherry Trees on the National Mall

Sargent Cherry flowering branch specimen
Sargent Cherry flowering branch specimen
Cherry trees along the Tidal Basin with Japanese Lantern placed in the park in 1954
First Lady Johnson reenacting the original 1912 planting of the first cherry trees on the National Mall
Mrs. Ryuji Takeuchi reenacting the original 1912 planting of the first cherry trees on the National Mall
Lantern Lighting Ceremony with Japanese Ambassador

Collections

Butterfly specimens in storage cabinet

Conducting Research

Black-Foot Fungus (Polyporus elegans)
Crayfish
Skimming Bluet
Luna Moth

Geological Collections

Rocks and Minerals

gold mining pan
Gold Float Specimen
Gold Bead
Quartz with Gold
Black and white photograph of Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Conococheague Creek Aqueduct

National Capital Area Parks

A calm Potomac River
Stone bridge in Rock Creek Park

Paleontological Collections

fossilized trunk
Cycads

Body Fossils

Rendering of Miocene great white shark
A Dugong near Marsa Alam
Quartz with Gold
Dugong Rib
Megalodon Size Chart

Trace Fossils

Macrocnemus basanii
fossil that displays footprints from a quadrupedal animal with a small five-fingered hand and a larger five-toed foot.

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