SERC Scientist Tuck Hines and Senator Mathias

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Object Details

Author

Strauss, Richard

Subject

Mathias, Charles McC (Charles McCurdy) 1922-

Hines, Anson "Tuck"

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)

Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies

Chesapeake Bay Center for Field Biology (CBCFB)

United States Congress Senate

Notes

Featured in "Torch," August 1989

Summary

On a tour of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's (SERC) new Charles McC. Mathias Laboratory, SERC scientist Tuck Hines shows Senator Mathias a tank for Chesapeake blue crabs. The opening of the new laboratory at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, was celebrated on June 1, 1989. The laboratory was named for Sen. "Mac" Mathias, former U.S. Senator from Maryland (1968-1986), who championed legislation to protect the Chesapeake Bay from over-development and pollution.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: August 1989

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

June 1, 1989

Standard number

SIA2011-1027 and 89-10018-29

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Photographic print

Person, candid

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Openings

Environmental research

Laboratories

Scientists

Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Edgewater, Maryland

Chesapeake Bay (MD)

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_5747