Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian Institution, 1872 |
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... name of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION , an establishment for the increase and diffu- sion 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 ...
... name of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION , an establishment for the increase and diffu- sion 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 ...
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... name of the author , as far as practicable , concealed , unless a favora- ble decision is made . 6. The volumes of the memoirs to be exchanged for the transactions of literary and scientific societies , and copies to be given to all the ...
... name of the author , as far as practicable , concealed , unless a favora- ble decision is made . 6. The volumes of the memoirs to be exchanged for the transactions of literary and scientific societies , and copies to be given to all the ...
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... name of Smithson . The annual report for the year 1867 was printed as usual by order of Congress , and the extra number of 10,000 copies ordered as heretofore . In addition to the report of the secretary , giving an account of the ...
... name of Smithson . The annual report for the year 1867 was printed as usual by order of Congress , and the extra number of 10,000 copies ordered as heretofore . In addition to the report of the secretary , giving an account of the ...
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... name already amounts to over ten thousand entries , including some of the choicest contributions to natural history and ethnology . A collection of birds and eggs , including some new species of the latter 22 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY .
... name already amounts to over ten thousand entries , including some of the choicest contributions to natural history and ethnology . A collection of birds and eggs , including some new species of the latter 22 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY .
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... name , and continued his explorations on either side of the Arctic Circle until September , when he returned to Norton's sound to report the result of his labors to the engineer - in - chief of the telegraphic expedition . But learning ...
... name , and continued his explorations on either side of the Arctic Circle until September , when he returned to Norton's sound to report the result of his labors to the engineer - in - chief of the telegraphic expedition . But learning ...
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Página 440 - Results of Meteorological Observations made under the Direction of the United States Patent Office and the Smithsonian Institution, from the year 1854 to 1859, inclusive, being a Report of the Commissioner of Patents made at the first session of the 36th Congress.
Página 287 - 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 8 - ... diffused among men by means of the press. 8. To effect the greatest amount of good, the organization should be such as to enable the Institution to produce results, in the way of increasing and diffusing knowledge, which cannot be produced either at all or so efficiently by the existing institutions in our country.
Página 8 - I mean stock to remain in this country, 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 10 - 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 287 - ... does not even tend to unravel, the tremor of the nervous matter is converted into the conscious impression of light. Darkness might then be defined as ether at rest ; light as ether in motion.
Página 285 - 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 8 - These two objects should not be confounded with one another. The first is to enlarge the existing stock of knowledge by the addition of new truths ; and the second, to disseminate knowledge, thus increased, among men. 6. The will makes no restriction in favor of any particular kind of knowledge ; hence all branches are entitled to a share of attention.
Página 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.
Página 34 - The man of science, says Dr. Tait, ought to go on, "honestly, patiently, diffidently, observing and storing up his observations, and carrying his reasonings unflinchingly to their legitimate conclusions, convinced that it would be treason to the majesty at once of science and of religion if he sought to help either by swerving ever so little from the straight rule of truth*.