Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1907 |
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Page xxi - He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Page 99 - 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...
Page ix - 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, two of whom shall be...
Page 525 - I have done the best I could in a difficult task, with results which it may be hoped will be useful to others. I have brought to a close the portion of the work which seemed to be specially mine— the demonstration of the practicability of mechanical flight— and for the next stage, which is the commercial and practical development of the idea, it is probable that the world may look to others. The world, indeed, will be supine if it do not realize that a new possibility has come to it, and that...
Page l - ... shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Page 95 - Institution, from a very early dato, to enrich the annual report required of them by law with memoirs illustrating the more remarkable and important developments in physical and biological discovery...
Page xlix - For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources...
Page 31 - In witness whereof the said party of the first part has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written.
Page l - For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supph", sewerage and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing...
Page xxviii - for maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, printing and publishing results of researches, not exceeding 1,500 copies, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $15,000" (sundry civil act, April 28, 1904) ... $15,000.00 DISHURSEMENTS.