Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1872 |
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Página 1 - Also catalogues of memoirs, and of books in foreign libraries, and other materials, should be collected for rendering the institution a centre of bibliographical knowledge, whence the student may be directed to any work which he may require.
Página 305 - ... or trafficked there. No traces .of hewn timber were discovered; on the contrary, the sleepers of the ground floor were round and unhewn. They were burnt out of their seats in the wall to the depth of six inches. The whole interior of the house had been burnt out, and the walls much defaced. What was left bore marks of having been glazed, and on the wall in the north room of the second story were traced the following hieroglyphics.
Página 387 - Humboldt ascertained that the lake was upwards of 549 yards, or upwards of 3^ miles, instead of about 1| mile from its banks. The appearance of the surface also gives new proof of the fact of the recession of the water; certain hillocks which rise in the plain still preserve the title...