Heather Ewing, the author of The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian, was the featured USC Libraries Literary Luncheon speaker on March 12. In this clip, recorded in the Hancock Memorial Museum at USC, she she shares two anecdotes featuring the bones of Smithsonian founder James Smithson.
Ewing, who has worked at the Smithsonian Institution, cited these stories while explaining how the enigma of James Smithson inspired her to write his biography.
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