Advertisement#NPRWormWeek: Worms Are Bottled Up In The Smithsonian's Crawl SpacePlay03:45Download AudioAugust 07, 2016Jason BeaubienfacebookEmailThis is what's called a "specimen lot" — a large mason jar holding smaller vials of parasitic worms gathered by a researcher in 1927. The Smithsonian collection has more than 120,000 specimen lots. (Kristin Adair/NPR)
