Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian Institution, 1893 Vols for 1849-1963/64 include "General appendix to the Smithsonian report" (varies slightly) |
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Page 610 - ... others. For, if such nostrum be of real efficacy, any concealment regarding it is inconsistent with beneficence and professional liberality; and, if mystery alone give it value and importance, such craft implies either disgraceful ignorance, or fraudulent avarice. It is also reprehensible for physicians to give certificates attesting the efficacy of patent or secret medicines, or in any way to promote the use of them.
Page xlii - ... shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States...
Page 610 - Equally derogatory to professional character is it for a physician to hold a patent for any surgical instrument or medicine, or to dispense a secret nostrum, whether it be the composition or exclusive property of himself or of others.
Page 12 - Institution, the income from a part of which was to be devoted to "the increase and diffusion of more exact knowledge in regard to the nature and properties of atmospheric air in connection with the welfare of man.
Page iv - 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 178 - When he had penetrated to the depth of eighteen feet, he came to a mass of native copper ten feet long, three feet wide, and nearly two feet thick, and weighing over six tons. On digging around it the mass was found to rest on billets of oak supported by sleepers of the same material. This wood...
Page xli - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Mates of America, in Congress assembled. That the...
Page xl - For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources...
Page 76 - Report upon the condition and progress of the US National Museum during the year ending June 30, 1889." By G. Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the National Museum.
Page 83 - The results obtained from these appropriations to be published, with the memoirs before mentioned, in the volumes of the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. 4. Examples of objects for which appropriations may be made. (1.) System of extended meteorological observations for solving the problem of American storms.