Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

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Page 33 - ... shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States...
Page xlvii - That the facilities for research and illustration in the following and any other governmental collections now existing or hereafter to be established in the city of Washington for the promotion of knowledge shall be accessible, under such rules and restrictions as the officers in charge of each collection may prescribe, subject to such authority as is now or may hereafter be permitted by law, to the scientific investigators and to students of any institution of higher education now incorporated or...
Page xlviii - Park, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia, and the other half from the treasury of the United...
Page xlv - KKSOLITTUIN [No. 2] to fill vacancies in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the vacancies in the Board of Begents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than members of Congress...
Page x - Washington, during the time for which they shall hold their respective offices ; three members of the Senate, and three members of the House of Representatives, together with six other persons, other than members of Congress...
Page 3 - London, for the purpose of founding "at Washington an establishment under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Page 129 - I affirm that the geological record furnishes a mass of evidence which no arguments drawn from other departments of nature can explain away, and which, it seems to me, cannot be satisfactorily interpreted save with an allowance of time much beyond the narrow limits which recent physical speculation would concede.
Page 4 - Institution, the income from a part of which was to be devoted to "the increase and diffusion of more exact knowledge in regard to the nature and properties of atmospheric air in connection with the welfare of man.
Page 80 - Gray, Asa. Plates prepared between the years 1849 and 1859, to accompany a Report on The Forest Trees of North America, by Asa Gray.
Page 617 - I HOLD every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

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