Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1885 |
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Page 93 - The publications of the United States Geological Survey are issued in accordance with the statute approved March 3, 1879, which declares that — 1 ' Thepublications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual report of operations, geological and economic maps illustrating the resources and classification of the lands, and reports upon general and economic geology and paleontology.
Page 53 - 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 120 - Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior for the year 1 875. 8. Washington. 1876. Statement of the Public Debt of the United States, September 1, 1876.
Page 12 - On the Structure of Cancerous Tumors and the mode in which adjacent parts are invaded.
Page 94 - Price 5 cents. 4. On Mesozoic Fossils, by Charles A. White. 1884. 8°. 36 pp. 9 pi. Price 5 cents. 5. A Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States, compiled by Henry Gannett. 1884. 8°.
Page 186 - That the Conference proposes to the Governments here represented the adoption of the meridian passing through the centre of the transit instrument at the Observatory of Greenwich as the initial meridian for longitude.
Page 94 - Price 10 cents. 2. Gold and Silver Conversion Tables, giving the coining values of troy ounces of fine metal, etc., computed by Albert Williams, jr. 1883. 8°. 8 pp. Price 5 cents. 3. On the Fossil Faunas of the Upper Devonian, along the meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, NY, to Bradford County, Pa., by Henry S.
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Page 156 - Institution is to furnish brief accounts of scientific discovery in particular directions ; occasional reports of the investigations made by collaborators of the Institution; memoirs of a general character or on special topics, whether original and prepared expressly for the purpose, or selected from foreign journals and proceedings; and briefly to present (as fully as space will permit) such papers not published in the Smithsonian Contributions...