Signature Specimen: The C. T. Brown Smithsonite, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Mineral Museum

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful to Carl Francis, Bob Eveleth, and Virgil Lueth for reviewing the manuscript. I thank William Besse for providing the location map, the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources and the Historic Photograph Archives for the photos of C. T. Brown and the Kelly mine, and Fred Wilda for the high-resolution scan of his watercolor painting.

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John Rakovan

Dr. John Rakovan, an executive editor of Rocks & Minerals, is State Mineralogist for New Mexico and Senior Mineral Museum Curator, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources.