Presentation of Benefactor Medallion
Object Details
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Notes
- Featured in TORCH, January 1973
- Summary
- Secretary S. Dillon Ripley presents the Benefactor Medallion to Mrs. Marguerite Henrich Kellogg (widow of A. Remington Kellogg, Assistant Curator Division of Mammals, USNM, 1928-1948; Director, USNM, 1948-1962; Assistant Secretary and Acting Director of National Museum of Natural History, 1958-1962), 18 December 1972. Mrs. Kellogg is the first recipient of the Medal. She has established a research fund in her husband's memory to advance knowledge of fossil marine mammals and has given the Institution her husband's scientific library.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 1, Folder: January 1973
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Date
- 1972
- Standard number
- 72-11328-18 or SIA72-11328-18
- Author
- Neufeld, Harry B
- Subject
- Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- Kellogg, Marguerite Henrich
- Kellogg, Remington 1893-1969
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Event
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print
- Topic
- Secretaries
- Benefactor Medallion
- Secretariats
- Rewards (Prizes, etc.)
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8457
