Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1896 |
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12 months action Adam Forepaugh American animals ants apparatus appear archæological Baffin Bay birds bronze Bureau casting cause century character charts collections Congress continued curves deposits discovery earth effect electricity existence experiments fact force Formica fusca Formica pratensis Guanche hand Hertz important increase Indians interest investigation islands July June 30 laborer land larvæ Lasius fuliginosus latitude light lines Liometopum living magnetic Maison Carrée Mare Australe material measure ment metal methods Miocene mold movement muscles Myrmecodia National Museum nature necessary nest object observations Observatory obtained ocean Octavo Octavo pamphlet organic original parallax pelagic period phenomena phosphate photographs plants plate present produced rain region relation researches scientific Secretary Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Report solar parallax South species surface theory tion United variations velocity
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Page 249 - And I had done a hellish thing. And it would work 'em woe: For all averred. I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow.
Page 339 - Consequently, if the theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Cambrian stratum was deposited long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Cambrian age to the present day ; and that during these vast periods the world swarmed with living creatures.
Page xxxiii - For the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. FURNITURE AND FIXTURES OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM...
Page vi - 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 xxxvi - That all articles which shall be imported from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition, upon which there shall be a tariff or customs duty, shall be admitted free of payment of duty, customs fees, or charges under such regulations as the secretary of the treasury shall prescribe...
Page 688 - I endeavoured to do, and, discussion not being invited, the communication would have passed without comment if a young man had not risen in the Section, and by his intelligent observations created a lively interest in the new theory. The young man was William Thomson...
Page xxxiv - for continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution...
Page xxxii - Departments and one of the Assistant Postmasters-General, who shall be designated by the heads of said Departments and the Postmaster-General, respectively, at a meeting to be called by the official of the Treasury Department, who shall be chairman thereof; and said board shall carefully examine...
Page 85 - Institution ; and memoirs of a general character or on special topics that are of interest or value to the numerous correspondents of the Institution. It has been a prominent, object of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, from a very early date, to enrich the annual report required of them by law with memoirs illustrating the more remarkable and important developments in physical and biological discovery, as well as showing the general character of the operations of the Institution;...
Page xiii - For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $32,000.