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... Smithsonian Institution . SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION , July 22 , 1854 . SIR : I have the honor herewith to transmit to you the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution , and beg leave to request that you will ...
... Smithsonian Institution . SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION , July 22 , 1854 . SIR : I have the honor herewith to transmit to you the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution , and beg leave to request that you will ...
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EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION , SHOWING The operations , expenditures , and condition of the Institution up to January 1 , 1854 , and the proceedings of the Board up to July 8 , 1854 . To ...
EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION , SHOWING The operations , expenditures , and condition of the Institution up to January 1 , 1854 , and the proceedings of the Board up to July 8 , 1854 . To ...
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... Smithsonian fund may be devoted to the more legitimate objects of the noble bequest . I have been informed by the Commissioner of Patents that the space now occupied in the building of the Patent Office by ... SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . 11.
... Smithsonian fund may be devoted to the more legitimate objects of the noble bequest . I have been informed by the Commissioner of Patents that the space now occupied in the building of the Patent Office by ... SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . 11.
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... Smithsonian Institution the results of the labors of Mr. Lapham for publication , and to reserve its own funds for further explorations . Mr. Lapham's memoir has been com- pleted , and , after having been ... SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . 15.
... Smithsonian Institution the results of the labors of Mr. Lapham for publication , and to reserve its own funds for further explorations . Mr. Lapham's memoir has been com- pleted , and , after having been ... SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . 15.
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... Museum of the Smithsonian Institution . Part I. - Serpents . - By S. F. Baird & C. Gi- rard , pp . 188. - This work is intended to exhibit the nature and extent of the collection of North American reptiles in the museum of the Smithsonian ...
... Museum of the Smithsonian Institution . Part I. - Serpents . - By S. F. Baird & C. Gi- rard , pp . 188. - This work is intended to exhibit the nature and extent of the collection of North American reptiles in the museum of the Smithsonian ...
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1st Session 31 days adopted American annual authorized Binding Board of Regents brig building California Cape Fear river catalogue cents claim Clerk to Committee collection Committee on Mexican compensation contingent expenses copies Department E. G. Squier eighteen hundred establishment Evansville favor Fayal fourth article Frémont funds furnished governor House of Representatives hundred and fifty-four hundred and fifty-three income Indians interest James James Smithson January John John Sergeant joint resolution knowledge labor land lectures legislature letter light-house March memoir messenger meteorological Missouri Missouri Compromise Missouri river museum observations paid port Portugal present President printed Prof Professor purchase railroad received repairs requested researches Resolved river salary Secretary Senate session 32d Congress Smithson Smithsonian Institution Society STATEMENT-Continued stationery stipulated survey Territory Territory of Nebraska thousand dollars thousand eight hundred tion Treasury treaty United volumes Washington Washington Territory witness before Select
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Página 108 - The President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy...
Página 25 - Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representatives requested to use their influence to...
Página 5 - Resolved by the Senate and Assembly of the State of California, jointly. That the Legislature of the State of California...
Página 122 - 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." 2. The bequest is for the benefit of mankind. The government of the United States is merely a trustee to carry out the design of the testator. 3. The Institution is not a national establishment, as is frequently supposed, but the establishment of an individual, and is to bear and perpetuate his...
Página 124 - II. By appropriating a part of the income, annually, to special objects of research, under the direction of suitable persons. ,* 1. The objects and the amount appropriated, to be recommended by counsellors of the Institution. 2. Appropriations in different years to different objects; so that in course of time each branch of knowledge may receive a share. 3. The results obtained from these appropriations to be published, with the memoirs before mentioned, in the volumes of the Smithsonian Contributions...
Página 125 - ... branches of knowledge not strictly professional. 1. These reports will diffuse a kind of knowledge generally interesting, but which, at present, is inaccessible to the public. Some of the reports may be published annually, others at longer intervals, as the income of the institution, or the changes in the branches of knowledge, may indicate. 2. The reports are to be prepared by collaborators, eminent in the different branches of knowledge.
Página 126 - 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 be such as are not to be found in the United States.
Página 146 - II. MORAL AND POLITICAL CLASS. 5. Ethnology, including particular history, comparative philology, antiquities, &c. 6. Statistics and political economy. 7. Mental and moral philosophy.
Página 6 - States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of thirtysix degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the Union with or without slavery, as the people of each State asking admission may desire. And in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory north of said Missouri compromise line, slavery, or involuntary servitude, (except for crime,) shall be prohibited.