Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1869 |
З цієї книги
Результати 1-5 із 40
Сторінка 13
... labor . Of the above amount , more than $ 20,000 was defrayed from the annual income of last year , and after this reduction of the resources it was scarcely to be expected that the operations of the Institution could be carried on with ...
... labor . Of the above amount , more than $ 20,000 was defrayed from the annual income of last year , and after this reduction of the resources it was scarcely to be expected that the operations of the Institution could be carried on with ...
Сторінка 15
... labor and of means , in duplicating and preserving articles of a similar character in separate establishments . The disposition , which up to this time , has been made of the plants illustrates the plan which was adopted , from the ...
... labor and of means , in duplicating and preserving articles of a similar character in separate establishments . The disposition , which up to this time , has been made of the plants illustrates the plan which was adopted , from the ...
Сторінка 35
... labor has been required merely to unpack , arrange , and catalogue them . The great importance should be borne in mind of prompt action in regard to affixing some permanent mark to each article so as to presevre all the data necessary ...
... labor has been required merely to unpack , arrange , and catalogue them . The great importance should be borne in mind of prompt action in regard to affixing some permanent mark to each article so as to presevre all the data necessary ...
Сторінка 36
... labor required for this will be evident when it is recollected that every specimen sent out is numbered and accompanied by a label giving the name , locality , and donor . Professor Baird , who has the special charge of this branch of ...
... labor required for this will be evident when it is recollected that every specimen sent out is numbered and accompanied by a label giving the name , locality , and donor . Professor Baird , who has the special charge of this branch of ...
Сторінка 38
... labor to investigations relative to light and sound as aids to navigation , in connection with his duty as one of the members of the United States Light - house Board . He has also , in his connection with the National Academy of ...
... labor to investigations relative to light and sound as aids to navigation , in connection with his duty as one of the members of the United States Light - house Board . He has also , in his connection with the National Academy of ...
Інші видання - Показати все
Загальні терміни та фрази
Academy acid American animals apparatus atmosphere atoms beam birds body bolide bones calorific canal carbon cetacea chemical collections comparative anatomy compression corresponding crustacea Cuvier deflection discovery effect electric Encke enstatite ether exist experiments fact force fossil gases hence Hodgkinson Illinois important inches Indian invisible rays Iowa iron James John kilograms labor lherzolite light luminous magnetic Massachusetts mastodon matter mechanical memoir metal meteorites meteorological Michigan Missouri molecules mollusks movement museum Name of observer Name of station natural history North observatory obtained Oersted Ohio organs oxygen pachydermata Pennsylvania peridot phenomena pillars present pressure produced Prof Professor pyroxene quantity of heat radiation rays relations rendered reptiles researches respiration Schoenbein silicates Smith Smithsonian Institution Society South Carolina species specimens stone surface temperature terrestrial theory tion tube units of heat vapor velocity vibrations Virginia volume weight wire Wisconsin York zoophytes
Популярні уривки
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.