Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

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Smithsonian Institution, 1891
 

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Page 770 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Page 93 - Any circle whose diameter is double that of another contains four times the area of the other.
Page ii - 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Page xxix - That all such articles when sold or withdrawn for consumption or use in the United States shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of...
Page 370 - AN ACCOUNT OF A METHOD OF COPYING PAINTINGS UPON GLASS, and of making Profiles, by the agency of Light upon Nitrate of Silver. Invented by T. Wedgwood, Esq. With Observations by H. Davy.
Page xxix - ... payment of duty, customs fees, or charges under such regulations as the secretary of the treasury shall prescribe...
Page 562 - THE SOUL OF MAN. An Investigation of the Facts of Physiological and Experimental...
Page 32 - Park for the advancement of science and the instruction and recreation of the people.
Page xxx - ... and materials as the heads of the several Departments and the directors of the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum may respectively decide shall be embraced in said Government exhibit. The President may also designate additional articles for exhibition.
Page 723 - And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

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