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Science 8 June 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5523, p. 1817
DOI: 10.1126/science.292.5523.1817b
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION:
Director of Natural History Museum Quits

Elizabeth Pennisi

The director of the world's most visited museum has resigned to protest a planned reorganization that would separate the museum's scientific and educational roles. Robert Fri, who heads the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., said in a memo to his staff on 28 May that he cannot commit to the proposed changes. He plans to step down by October.

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