Description
Contents: Smithsonian Horizons; Letters to the Editor; Around the Mall and Beyond; Phenomena, Comment and Notes; New Light on the Mysteries of the Maya (They were once considered gentle, and peaceable, but two exhibitions show that view to be wrong); Getting Closer to Rhododendrons (It can be rewarding if you live in a climate where they thrive, and you can look for the new variations); A Leap Into the Unknown (Every tunnel-building project is just that – from the earliest to the “Chunnel” under the Channel); Palate-Pleasing Through Art and Science (Most natural flavors can be duplicated or improved in the laboratory, but not all – salt, for instance); Fending Off the 20th Century (Sark is a feudal remnant in the Channel Islands, still holding out – but what about the future); What The Bookish Brothers Grimm Bequeathed (First, their fairy tales – known the world over – and then two monuments of German scholarship); Metamorphosis: Nature’s Sleight of Hand (Many animals radically change their form between egg and adult, their genes carry two messages); Mata Hari, Notorious But Not Guilty (She was surely a seductress, but new research shows that she was a scapegoat rather than a superspy); Book Reviews; Picture Credits; Additional Reading; May Events at the Smithsonian; Smithsonian Tours
Issue: May 1986
Condition: Very Good