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| | West-Eberhard elected to the Italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei |
 | | Galileo Galilei added his great name and fame to the Accademia in 1611, and the number of members increased steadily with the addition of foreign and Italian men of science, poets, lawyers, and philologists until in 1625 the number of fellows reached 32. |
 | | Currently, the aim of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei is to promote, coordinate, integrate and spread scientific knowledge in its highest expression, in the unity and universality of culture. |
 | | The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), with headquarters in Panama City, Panama, is one of the world's leading centers for basic research on the ecology, behavior and evolution of tropical organisms. |
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