Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1867 Vols for 1849-1963/64 include "General appendix to the Smithsonian report" (varies slightly) |
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Página 8 - TO INCREASE KNOWLEDGE. It ÍS 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 107 - On laying bare the roots of the spinal nerves, I found that I could cut across the posterior fasciculus of nerves, which took its origin from the posterior portion of the spinal marrow without convulsing the muscles of the back; but that on touching the anterior fasciculus with the point of the knife, the muscles of the back were immediately convulsed.
Página 10 - The emphasis upon publications as a means of diffusing knowledge was expressed by the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In his formal plan for the Institution, Joseph Henry articulated a program that included the following statement: "It is proposed to publish a series of reports, giving an account of the new discoveries in science, and of the changes made from year to year in all branches of knowledge not strictly professional.
Página 352 - ... would be to them a most valuable secret. They make them so strong and serviceable, however, that they hang them over the fire as we do our iron pots, and boil their meat in them with perfect success. I have seen some few specimens of such manufacture, which have been dug up in Indian mounds and tombs in the southern and middle states, placed in our Eastern Museums and looked upon as a great wonder, when here this novelty is at once done away with, and the whole mystery ; where women can be seen...
Página 75 - Secretary, namely: twenty-six thousand two hundred and ten dollars and sixty-three cents, together with such other sums as the regents may from time to time see fit to deposit, not exceeding, with the original bequest, the sum of one million dollars.
Página 8 - The organization should also be such as can be adopted provisionally, can be easily reduced to practice, receive modifications, or be abandoned, in whole or in part, without a sacrifice of the funds.
Página 12 - Attempts should be made to procure for the gallery of art, casts of the most celebrated articles of ancient and modern sculpture. 11. The arts may be encouraged by providing a room free of expense for the exhibition of the objects of the Art-Union, and other similar societies.
Página 353 - The Traders have recently supplied these people with pots ; and even long before that, the Mandans had instructed them in the secret of manufacturing very good and serviceable earthen pots ; which together have entirely done away the custom, excepting at public festivals; where they seem, like all others of the human family, to take pleasure in cherishing and perpetuating their ancient customs.
Página 203 - In consequence, it may be, of some great convulsion, enormous quantities of gas were set free. A large part of this gas consisted of hydrogen, which was burning about the star in combination with some other element. This flaming gas emitted the light represented by the spectrum of bright lines. The...
Página 410 - Bn is the mean number of days in each month in which the air was 5° C. (9° F.) or more colder than the water ; Bmx the mean of the greatest excess of the temperature of the water above that of the air. The months January 1879, 1880, 1881, 1885, 1887, and December 1878 and 1879 are omitted because of the great number of frost days. In the other months the frost days, and those on which the Marne was frozen, are omitted. 1 The Nile in Upper Egypt from May to August by 4°'l C. (7° -4 F.