Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution |
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To the Board of Regents : GENTLEMEN : Nothing has occurred during the past
year of a character demanding the special action of the Board . Indeed , the
policy of the Institution originally adopted has become so firmly settled and so
widely ...
To the Board of Regents : GENTLEMEN : Nothing has occurred during the past
year of a character demanding the special action of the Board . Indeed , the
policy of the Institution originally adopted has become so firmly settled and so
widely ...
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This large sum was rendered necessary by the peculiar character of the
architecture , the cost of fire - proof materials , and the high price of labor . Of the
above amount , more than $ 20 , 000 was defrayed from the annual income of
last year ...
This large sum was rendered necessary by the peculiar character of the
architecture , the cost of fire - proof materials , and the high price of labor . Of the
above amount , more than $ 20 , 000 was defrayed from the annual income of
last year ...
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... be accessible to the public for practical or educational purposes , and to the
Institution for scientific investigation or for supplying any information that may be
asked for by its correspondents in regard to the names and character of plants .
... be accessible to the public for practical or educational purposes , and to the
Institution for scientific investigation or for supplying any information that may be
asked for by its correspondents in regard to the names and character of plants .
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About 20 years ago the author found in use among the Iroquois Indians , of the
State of New York , a system for the designation and classification of family
relationship of a singular character and wholly unlike any with which he was
previously ...
About 20 years ago the author found in use among the Iroquois Indians , of the
State of New York , a system for the designation and classification of family
relationship of a singular character and wholly unlike any with which he was
previously ...
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... known the productions and character of the regions he has explored . The
record of specimens bearing his name already amounts to over ten thousand
entries , including some of the choicest contributions to natural history and
ethnology .
... known the productions and character of the regions he has explored . The
record of specimens bearing his name already amounts to over ten thousand
entries , including some of the choicest contributions to natural history and
ethnology .
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
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| Título | Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Mis. doc. Publication (Smithsonian Institution) |
| Autor | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents |
| Editor | The Institution, 1869 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 27 Mar 2007 |
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