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  1. Organization Type: Library
    Address: 10th St. & Constitution Ave. NW
    City: Washington
    State Or Province: District of Columbia
    Zip / Postal Code: 20530
    Country: United States
    Telephone Number: 202-633-1184
    Abstract: The Cullman Library holds the Smithsonian's collection of rare books in anthropology and the natural sciences. We make books available to researchers by direct access in the reading room and through reference assistance (including limited photocopying when possible). In addition, the Library shares the collection by means of digital editions, exhibitions, exhibition loans, and public programs.
    Holdings: The Cullman contains approximately 15,000 volumes published before 1840 in the fields of physical and cultural anthropology, ethnology, Native American linguistics, and archeology; botany; ornithology, mammalogy, herpetology, ichthyology, entomology, malacology, and other zoological fields; paleontology; and geology and mineralogy. The publications of seventeenth- through nineteenth-century voyages of exploration are a special strength, as is the history of museums and scientific collecting.
    Contact Name, Title: Leslie Overstreet, Curator of Natural-History Rare Books
    Contact Telephone Number: 202-633-1176
    Contact Email Address: overstreetl@si.edu
    Web Site: http://library.si.edu/libraries/cullman
    Collection Subject Strengths: History of Botany, History of Medicine, Materia Medica