Opening of National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Royal gifts from the Kingdom of Thailand"

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Opening of National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Royal gifts from the Kingdom of Thailand"

1982

https://sova.si.edu/record/NAA.MS7353

Includes speeches by S. Dillon Ripley, Richard Fiske, Paul Taylor and a blessing by the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand.

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Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001

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S. Dillon Ripley (b. September 20, 1913, New York City, NY - d. March 12, 2001, Washington, D.C.), an ornithologist, served as the eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1964 to 1984, and oversaw tremendous growth. Interested in natural history and exploration since his childhood, Ripley visited the remote nation of Ladakh when he was only thirteen years old. After graduate school, he was a curator at the Smithsonian briefly and then spent almost twenty years teaching at Yale University. He le...