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... valley of the Mississippi in the Gulf of Mexico . Your Committee have deemed it highly essential to this report , that it should be accompanied by a sectional diagram of the river at the point of observation , accurately delineating the ...
... valley of the Mississippi in the Gulf of Mexico . Your Committee have deemed it highly essential to this report , that it should be accompanied by a sectional diagram of the river at the point of observation , accurately delineating the ...
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... valley , through which it passes on its way to the ocean , there are involved considera- tions of no little importance ; for the Mississippi valley has been found to contain an area very little , if any , short of fourteen hundred ...
... valley , through which it passes on its way to the ocean , there are involved considera- tions of no little importance ; for the Mississippi valley has been found to contain an area very little , if any , short of fourteen hundred ...
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... valley , 169,128,960,000,000 cubic feet , which is about 11 or 11.3636 times the quantity which is discharged by the river . There can be but two ways by which this immense quantity of water can make its escape from the valley ; one is ...
... valley , 169,128,960,000,000 cubic feet , which is about 11 or 11.3636 times the quantity which is discharged by the river . There can be but two ways by which this immense quantity of water can make its escape from the valley ; one is ...
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... valley , that those lands have been progressively and rapidly redeemed from overflow , until very great portions of them are now in the very highest state of cultivation , and with but comparatively slight assist- ance from art in the ...
... valley , that those lands have been progressively and rapidly redeemed from overflow , until very great portions of them are now in the very highest state of cultivation , and with but comparatively slight assist- ance from art in the ...
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... valley , and denuded the upper tertiary of all its incumbent diluvium , from the high lands on one side to those on the other which Every judication is confirmatory ; and there are very dent traces of the river having occupied every ...
... valley , and denuded the upper tertiary of all its incumbent diluvium , from the high lands on one side to those on the other which Every judication is confirmatory ; and there are very dent traces of the river having occupied every ...
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Página 60 - But Moses' hands were heavy ; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Página 87 - Institution, and the name of the author (as far as practicable) concealed, unless a favorable decision be 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 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. 7. An abstract or popular account...
Página 87 - 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 to Knowledge.
Página 88 - ... are to be prepared by collaborators eminent in the different branches of knowledge. 3. Each collaborator to be furnished with the journals and publications, domestic and foreign, necessary to the compilation of his report; to be paid a certain sum for his labors, and to be named on the title-page of the report. 4. The reports to be published in separate parts, so that persons interested in a particular branch can procure the parts relating to it without purchasing the whole. 5. These reports...
Página 89 - LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS. 9. Modern literature. 10. The fine arts, and their application to the useful arts. 11. Bibliography. 12. Obituary notices of distinguished individuals.
Página 84 - FOR THE INCREASE AND DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE AMONG MEN.
Página 88 - 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 85 - Regents the power of adopting such other parts of an organization as they may deem best suited to promote the objects of the bequest. "After much deliberation, the Regents resolved to divide the annual income...
Página 21 - ... from the clutches of the publicans, and the embraces of their pot companions, who followed them to the water's edge with many a hug, a kiss on each cheek, and a maudlin benediction in Canadian French. It was about the 12th of August that they left Mackinaw, and pursued the usual route by Green Bay, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, to Prairie du Chien, and thence down the Mississippi to St. Louis, where they landed on the third of September.
Página 10 - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science In different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.