Home / 2009 / October

• In face of crisis, National Zoo to start captive population of Virginia big-eared bats

  26 October 2009

  

   

• Smithsonian’s National Gem Collection acquires a yellow fluorite from Tanzania

  21 October 2009

  

   

• Females are giants in newly discovered species of golden orb weaver spider

  21 October 2009

  

   

• John Marshall Ju/’hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection added to UNESCO register

  20 October 2009

  

   

• Hall of Human Origins to open at Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum, March 17, 2010

  19 October 2009

  

   

• Native bees prove resilient in competition with invasive African honey bees

  16 October 2009

  

   

• Video: Common birds in Washington, D.C. are helping Smithsonian scientists track intensity of the West Nile Virus

  7 October 2009

  

   

• With 1844 first edition, Smithsonian Libraries completes its collection of Charles Darwin’s three-volume geology series

  7 October 2009

  

   

• A dry spring in Panama means more sulfur butterflies, study reveals

  2 October 2009

  

   

• Smithsonian botanist writes book on his discoveries in the secret land of Myanmar

  1 October 2009