I'm sure you'll get buried by responses, but the National Museum was the
germ of the current Smithsonian museums.
> 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
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