Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian Institution, 1928 Vols. for 1847-1963/64 include the Institution's Report of the Secretary, also published separately. |
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Page 5 - England, who in 1826 bequeathed his property to the United States of America, " to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Page 6 - Institution", to be composed of the Vice President, the Chief Justice of the United States, and 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 resident in the city of Washington; and the other four shall be inhabitants of some State, but no two of them of the same State.
Page 364 - Given any species in any region, the nearest related species is not likely to be found in the same region nor in a remote region, but in a neighboring district separated from the first by a barrier of some sort, or at least by a belt of country, the breadth of which gives the effect of a barrier.
Page 246 - They felt it their bounden duty, upon national and professional grounds, to discourage to the utmost of their ability the employment of steam vessels, as they considered that the introduction of steam was calculated to strike a fatal blow to the naval supremacy of the Empire...
Page 152 - ADVERTISEMENT. The object of the GENERAL APPENDIX to the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution is to furnish brief accounts of scientific discovery in particular directions; reports of investigations made by collaborators of the Institution ; and memoirs of a general character or on special topics that are of interest or value to the numerous correspondents of the Institution.
Page 53 - Engineering may become affiliated with their respective national professional engineering societies, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, as each of these organizations has authorized a student chapter at the University of Vermont.
Page 196 - ... that it was probable that all the great discoveries in physics had already been made and that future progress was to be looked for, not in bringing to light qualitatively new phenomena, but rather in making more exact quantitative measurements upon old phenomena. Just a little more than one year later...
Page 37 - Lotze seem to the present writer very suggestive and it is greatly to be regretted that he did not live to write them out and publish them in full.
Page 19 - William H. Welch, director of the school of hygiene and public health of Johns Hopkins University.
Page 435 - Altaic range of mountains on the north and the Tauric range, with its continuations, on the south, but keeping to the sunny and more attractive south as much as it could, the tribe found itself, at the time I have mentioned, between 40" and 45°, NL, moving parallel with the Yellow River in the most northern portion of its course.