Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1869 |
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... meteorites . Now , it is easily conceivable that such bodies may fall regularly upon the sun and create heat by the impact . It has been calcu- lated what would be the mass of asteroids capable of thus producing the solar heat , and it ...
... meteorites . Now , it is easily conceivable that such bodies may fall regularly upon the sun and create heat by the impact . It has been calcu- lated what would be the mass of asteroids capable of thus producing the solar heat , and it ...
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... meteorite ren- dered luminous on any other conditions . The light - giving rays constitute only a small fraction of the total radiation , their unspeakable importance to us being due to the fact that their periods are attuned to the ...
... meteorite ren- dered luminous on any other conditions . The light - giving rays constitute only a small fraction of the total radiation , their unspeakable importance to us being due to the fact that their periods are attuned to the ...
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... auditory , and other nerves of the human body are so many strings differently tuned and responsive to different forms of the universal power . SYNTHETIC EXPERIMENTS RELATIVE TO METEORITES - APPROXIMATIONS TO WHICH THESE RADIATION . 311.
... auditory , and other nerves of the human body are so many strings differently tuned and responsive to different forms of the universal power . SYNTHETIC EXPERIMENTS RELATIVE TO METEORITES - APPROXIMATIONS TO WHICH THESE RADIATION . 311.
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... meteorites may remain buried and undiscoverable . The phenomena of light and sound with which the fall of meteorites is attended being of such imposing magnitude , it is not without surprise that we observe the absence of any voluminous ...
... meteorites may remain buried and undiscoverable . The phenomena of light and sound with which the fall of meteorites is attended being of such imposing magnitude , it is not without surprise that we observe the absence of any voluminous ...
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... meteorites is not so considerable as might be inferred from the great number of bolides which have been observed and which daily come to light . Those which have been well authenticated , and the stones of which have been collected , do ...
... meteorites is not so considerable as might be inferred from the great number of bolides which have been observed and which daily come to light . Those which have been well authenticated , and the stones of which have been collected , do ...
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Стр. 7 - The property is bequeathed 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.
Стр. 8 - To INCREASE KNOWLEDGE. It is proposed — 1. To stimulate men of talent to make original researches, by offering suitable rewards for memoirs containing new truths ; and, 2. To appropriate annually a portion of the income for particular researches, under the direction of suitable persons.
Стр. 9 - ... of literary and scientific societies, and copies to be given to all the colleges and principal libraries in this country. One part of the remaining copies may be offered for sale, and the other carefully preserved, to form complete sets of the work, to supply the demand from new institutions.
Стр. 10 - The following are some of the subjects which may be embraced in the reports:* I. PHYSICAL CLASS. 1. Physics, including astronomy, natural philosophy, chemistry, and meteorology. 2. Natural history, including botany, zoology, geology, &c. 3. Agriculture. 4. Application of science to arts. II. MORAL AND POLITICAL CLASS. 5. Ethnology, including particular history, comparative philology, antiquities, &c.
Стр. 11 - It is believed that the collections in natural history will increase by donation as rapidly as the income of the Institution can make provision for their reception, and therefore it will seldom be necessary to purchase articles of this kind.
Стр. 11 - With reference to the collection of books, other than those mentioned above, catalogues of all the different libraries in the United States should be procured, in order that the valuable books first purchased may oe such as are not to be found in the United States.
Стр. 8 - No memoir on subjects of physical science to be accepted for publication which does not furnish, a positive addition to human knowledge, resting on original research; and all unverified speculations to be rejected.
Стр. 294 - Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.
Стр. 292 - The optic nerve passes from the brain to the back of the eyeball and there spreads out, to form the retina, a web of nerve filaments, on which the images of external objects are projected by the optical portion of the eye. This nerve is limited to the apprehension of the phenomena of radiation, and, notwithstanding its marvellous sensibility to certain impressions of this class, it is singularly obtuse to other impressions.
Стр. 11 - Resolved, That hereafter the annual appropriations shall be apportioned specifically among the different objects and operations of the Institution, in such manner as may, in the judgment of the Regents, be necessary and proper for each, according to its intrinsic importance, and a compliance in good faith with the law.