Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1869 |
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... corresponding terms in the Iroquois , the classification was the same . Extending the research to other fields of inquiry , he found before the close of 1859 that the same system prevailed among the principal Indian nations east of the ...
... corresponding terms in the Iroquois , the classification was the same . Extending the research to other fields of inquiry , he found before the close of 1859 that the same system prevailed among the principal Indian nations east of the ...
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... correspond- ents has been absorbed , during the last year , in meeting the applications of members of Congress for the supply of their constituents . In com- plying with these applications we have never failed to represent that a larger ...
... correspond- ents has been absorbed , during the last year , in meeting the applications of members of Congress for the supply of their constituents . In com- plying with these applications we have never failed to represent that a larger ...
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... corresponding dimensions in the second story , an opportu nity will be afforded of adopting arrangements far better suited for a comprehensive display of the vast number of objects with which in time it will be furnished . During the ...
... corresponding dimensions in the second story , an opportu nity will be afforded of adopting arrangements far better suited for a comprehensive display of the vast number of objects with which in time it will be furnished . During the ...
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... correspond- ing to that number in a bound record book kept in a fire - proof room . Whenever a specimen admits of it , the items above mentioned are marked upon the object itself , but as long as the numbers and records are in existence ...
... correspond- ing to that number in a bound record book kept in a fire - proof room . Whenever a specimen admits of it , the items above mentioned are marked upon the object itself , but as long as the numbers and records are in existence ...
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... corresponding change . It is true that civilized man has in a degree , through science , the power of resisting the influence of climate to which his race has not been long subjected , yet if sufficient time be allowed for the weather ...
... corresponding change . It is true that civilized man has in a degree , through science , the power of resisting the influence of climate to which his race has not been long subjected , yet if sufficient time be allowed for the weather ...
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Сторінка 7 - The property is bequeathed to the United States of America, "to found at Washington, under the name of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Сторінка 8 - To INCREASE KNOWLEDGE. It is proposed — 1. To stimulate men of talent to make original researches, by offering suitable rewards for memoirs containing new truths ; and, 2. To appropriate annually a portion of the income for particular researches, under the direction of suitable persons.
Сторінка 9 - ... of literary and scientific societies, and copies to be given to all the colleges and principal libraries in this country. One part of the remaining copies may be offered for sale, and the other carefully preserved, to form complete sets of the work, to supply the demand from new institutions.
Сторінка 10 - The following are some of the subjects which may be embraced in the reports:* I. PHYSICAL CLASS. 1. Physics, including astronomy, natural philosophy, chemistry, and meteorology. 2. Natural history, including botany, zoology, geology, &c. 3. Agriculture. 4. Application of science to arts. II. MORAL AND POLITICAL CLASS. 5. Ethnology, including particular history, comparative philology, antiquities, &c.
Сторінка 11 - It is believed that the collections in natural history will increase by donation as rapidly as the income of the Institution can make provision for their reception, and therefore it will seldom be necessary to purchase articles of this kind.
Сторінка 11 - With reference to the collection of books, other than those mentioned above, catalogues of all the different libraries in the United States should be procured, in order that the valuable books first purchased may oe such as are not to be found in the United States.
Сторінка 8 - No memoir on subjects of physical science to be accepted for publication which does not furnish, a positive addition to human knowledge, resting on original research; and all unverified speculations to be rejected.
Сторінка 294 - Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.
Сторінка 292 - The optic nerve passes from the brain to the back of the eyeball and there spreads out, to form the retina, a web of nerve filaments, on which the images of external objects are projected by the optical portion of the eye. This nerve is limited to the apprehension of the phenomena of radiation, and, notwithstanding its marvellous sensibility to certain impressions of this class, it is singularly obtuse to other impressions.
Сторінка 11 - Resolved, That hereafter the annual appropriations shall be apportioned specifically among the different objects and operations of the Institution, in such manner as may, in the judgment of the Regents, be necessary and proper for each, according to its intrinsic importance, and a compliance in good faith with the law.