Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1885 |
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Page 55 - That, in proportion as suitable arrangements can be made for their reception, all objects of art and of foreign and curious research, and all objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens, belonging or hereafter to belong, to the United States...
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