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DR. A. REMINGTON KELLOGG has been appointed director of the United States National Museum. Dr. Kellogg has been curator of mammals in the Smithsonian Institution for the past seven years. He is one of the leading experts on whales and whale-like animals. His doctorate thesis, dealing with cetacean palæontology, attempted to trace the ancestry of the earth‘s largest animals from their land origins. He has served as delegate for the United States on several international congresses dealing with whale conservation and had a leading part in the establishment of the great Antarctic whale sanctuary set up by international agreement. The National Museum, which Dr. Kellogg now will administer, is the largest of the Federal bureaux administered by the Smithsonian Institution. It is the storehouse of what now is probably the most extensive systematized natural history collections in the world, ranging from elephants to fossil insects. It contains large ethnological and historical collections and valuable series in the field of mechanics and inventions.
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U.S. National Museum : Dr. A. Remington Kellogg. Nature 161, 965 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161965a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161965a0