How did the Smithsonian Institution come to be?
For the history of the Smithsonian Institution, please see the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ Institutional History Division web site http://siarchives.si.edu/history/main.html Another resource is the From Smithson to Smithsonian: The Birth of an Institution Exhibition web site http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Smithson-to-Smithsonian/ Another excellent site related to this topic, about the last 150 years of Smithsonian research in Latin America, is the Natural History Museum Anthropology Department’s Smithsonian Exhibitions web site http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/laexped
