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Сторінка 9 - Specimens of staple materials, of their gradual manufacture, and of the finished product of manufactures and the arts may also, your committee think, be usefully introduced. This would supply opportunity to examine samples of the best manufactured articles our country affords, and to judge her gradual progress in arts and manufactures.
Сторінка 9 - ... of Congress as an exhibition room for the works of artists generally; and the extent and general usefulness of such an exhibition might probably be increased if an arrangement could be effected with the Academy of Design, the Arts- Union, the Artists...
Сторінка 9 - That it is the intention of the act of Congress establishing the institution, and in accordance with the design of Mr. Smithson, as expressed in his will, that one of the principal modes of executing the act and the trust is the accumulation of collections of specimens and objects of natural history and of elegant art, and the gradual formation of a library of valuable works pertaining to all departments of human knowledge, to the end that a copious storehouse of materials of science, literature,...
Сторінка 138 - ... knowledge of the subject offers new points of approach. At what epoch man came to our continent from a former home; how he made his way hither; and his history since he came, are questions that possess greater and greater attraction as the science of man becomes broader and deeper. While the majority 1 Discussion at a joint session of the American Anthropological Association and Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held at the US National Museum, Washington. December...
Сторінка 7 - That, in proportion as suitable arrangements can be made for their reception, all objects of art and of foreign and curious research, and all objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens, belonging or hereafter to belong, to the United States, which may be in the city of Washington...
Сторінка 9 - The gallery of art, your committee think, should include both paintings and sculpture, as well as engravings and architectural designs ; and it is desirable to have in connexion with it one or more studios, in which young artists might copy without interruption, being admitted under such regulations as the board may prescribe. Your committee also think that as the collection of paintings and sculpture will probably accumulate slowly, the room destined for a gallery of art might properly and usefully...
Сторінка 3 - SIR : I have the honor to submit herewith a report upon the present condition of the United States National Museum and upon the work accomplished in its various departments during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912.
Сторінка 139 - Semitic" ethnic elements, and is to be classed with these as part of the southern extension of the Mediterranean subdivision of the white race. Judging from the mummies of the Oasis inhabitants from the 2-5 centuries AD.
Сторінка 77 - Three new plants from Alberta " and " A new leather flower from Illinois," by Paul C. Standley ; " The genera of fossil whalebone whales allied to Balsenoptera," by Frederick W. True ; " New genus and species of Hymenoptera of the family Braconidse from Panama," by H. L. Viereck ; " Observations on the habits of the crustacean Emerita analoga," by Frank Walter Weymouth and Charles Howard Richardson, jr. The editorial office has charge of the printing cf all miscellaneous matters as well as of publications,...
Сторінка 137 - Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 78 | — | The National Gallery of Art | Catalogue of | a selection of art objects | from the Freer Collection...