Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1872 |
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... original researches , by offering suitable rewards for memoirs containing new truths ; and , 2. To appropriate annually a portion of the income for particular re- searches , under the direction of suitable persons . TO DIFFUSE KNOWLEDGE ...
... original researches , by offering suitable rewards for memoirs containing new truths ; and , 2. To appropriate annually a portion of the income for particular re- searches , under the direction of suitable persons . TO DIFFUSE KNOWLEDGE ...
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... original fund ... In Virginia State stock , $ 72,760 , valued at . Cash on hand ..... $ 108 , 620 37 48 , 000 00 21,477 81 719 , 477 81 The income from the fund during the year 1870 , including the pre- mium on gold , was $ 43,363 12 ...
... original fund ... In Virginia State stock , $ 72,760 , valued at . Cash on hand ..... $ 108 , 620 37 48 , 000 00 21,477 81 719 , 477 81 The income from the fund during the year 1870 , including the pre- mium on gold , was $ 43,363 12 ...
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... original investigation by Lewis H. Morgan , esq . , of Rochester , New York , on the " Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family . " This memoir , of which an account has been given in a previous report , was first ...
... original investigation by Lewis H. Morgan , esq . , of Rochester , New York , on the " Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family . " This memoir , of which an account has been given in a previous report , was first ...
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... original plan of the preparation of manuals of natural history , has thus made provision for publications on the coleoptera , lepidoptera , neuroptera , diptera , orthoptera , and hymenoptera . Of the few remaining orders , a similar ...
... original plan of the preparation of manuals of natural history , has thus made provision for publications on the coleoptera , lepidoptera , neuroptera , diptera , orthoptera , and hymenoptera . Of the few remaining orders , a similar ...
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... original paper on the chemistry of the earth , by T. Sterry Hunt ; articles on the electrical currents of the earth ; phenomena of flight in the animal kingdom ; the northern seas ; report on the transactions of the Society of Physics ...
... original paper on the chemistry of the earth , by T. Sterry Hunt ; articles on the electrical currents of the earth ; phenomena of flight in the animal kingdom ; the northern seas ; report on the transactions of the Society of Physics ...
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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 9 - The volumes of the memoirs to be exchanged for the Transactions 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 122 - If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us : Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us...
Сторінка 246 - Within a finite period of time past, the earth must have been, and within a finite period of time to come, the earth must again be, unfit for the habitation of man as at present constituted, unless operations have been, or are to be performed, which are impossible under the laws to which the known operations going on at present in the material world are subject.
Сторінка 405 - Let the laborers be hired for the trip, and informed as to what they are to do and how they are to do it.
Сторінка 8 - ... 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. To DIFFUSE KNOWLEDGE. It is proposed — 1.
Сторінка 11 - By the publication of separate treatises on subjects of general interest. 1. These treatises may occasionally consist of valuable memoirs translated from foreign languages, or of articles prepared under the direction of the institution, or procured by offering premiums for the best exposition of a given subject. 2. The treatises should, in all cases, be submitted to a commission of competent judges, previous to their publication.
Сторінка 284 - ... deer will outrun the leopard in a fair and open chase, because the work supplied to its muscles by the vegetable food is capable of being given out continuously for a long period of time ; but in a sudden rush at a near distance the leopard will infallibly overtake the deer, because its flesh food stores up in the blood a reserve of force capable of being given out instantaneously in the form of exceedingly rapid muscular action.
Сторінка 105 - The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by the principal universities of this country, and few of our leading societies were willing to forego the honor of numbering him among their associates. He was elected in succession president of the American Philosophical Society, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the National Academy of Sciences established by Congress. Nor were foreigners less forward in acknowledging his merit. He was a member of the Royal Society...
Сторінка 246 - ... in comparison with the force of the mine which it explodes. But without the power to make some material disposition,' to originate some movement, or to change, at least temporarily, the amount of dynamical force appropriate to some one or more material molecules, the mechanical results of human or animal volition are inconceivable. It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in which this is performed. It suffices to bring the origination of dynamical power, to however small an extent, within...