You probably have to have worked there or have to refer to specimens
deposited there to know, but the National Museum of Natural History is also
called the United States National Museum, and specimen numbers are cited as
USNM numbers.  I don't know this history of this designation or whether it
includes any other Smithsonian museums.

Karen Wetmore


>     I'm embarrassed to have to ask this, but the references I have at
>hand, including the WWWeb, have failed me:
>     In a biography of naturalist Georg Steller, who sailed with Vitus
>Bering, there is a reference to the United States National Museum. That
>sounds familiar to me, but I can't place it and haven't been able to
>trace it.
>     So (blush), can somebody tell me where 'tis?
>
>     Hank Burchard * <[log in to unmask]> * Washington DC