Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1899 |
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Page 277 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For tho' my lips may breathe adieu, I cannot think the thing farewell.
Page 26 - ... shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States...
Page 277 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 559 - Koebele, an attache of the Division of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture, whose...
Page 298 - ... the eighth element starting from a given one is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music.
Page x - Institution, to be composed of the Vice-President, the Chief Justice of the United States, three members of the Senate, and three members of the House of Representatives...
Page 126 - David, somewhat startled at the originality of the idea, paused awhile, and then hesitatingly referred to the refrangibility of rays, and the angle of incidence. Sir John, grown more confident, adduced the example of the Newtonian Reflector, in which the refrangibility was corrected by the second speculum, and the angle of incidence restored by the third. " And," continued he, " why cannot the illuminated microscope, say the hydrooxygen, be applied to render distinct, and, if necessary, even to magnify...
Page 11 - Ethnological researches, particularly with reference to the different races of men in North America ; also, explorations and accurate surveys of the mounds and other remains of the ancient people of our country.
Page xxii - for continuing 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, $160,000, of which sum $3,500 may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum" (sundry civil act, June 4, 1897) $160,000.00 EXPENDITURES.
Page 28 - July 7, 1898, and is now before the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Representatives.