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Group portrait of the Megatherium Club, including naturalist Robert Kennicott, painter and photographer Henry Ulke, ornithologist Henry Bryant, and marine biologist William Stimpson, about 1855:
Carte-de-visite by unknown photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Naming their club for an extinct giant sloth, these four scientists often collected specimens and artifacts for the Smithsonian and lived in the Castle building for several years during the war. |