Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1922 |
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... darkness and excessively low temperature . Can the twilight zone between the hemispheres of day and night offer abode and comfort to living forms , vegetable and animal ? We have found no answer to this question , and we know not how to ...
... darkness and excessively low temperature . Can the twilight zone between the hemispheres of day and night offer abode and comfort to living forms , vegetable and animal ? We have found no answer to this question , and we know not how to ...
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... darkness which gave them semiconceal- ment from the enemy's destructive airships , should have obtained their first real vision of the starry heavens . What must have been their sensations ? On the other hand , those who can view its ...
... darkness which gave them semiconceal- ment from the enemy's destructive airships , should have obtained their first real vision of the starry heavens . What must have been their sensations ? On the other hand , those who can view its ...
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... darkness . In the next lecture we must study the incidents which may occur during the march of this army of stars . II . THE EVOLUTION OF STELLAR AND PLANETARY SYSTEMS . In the last lecture we followed up , so far as is permitted by mod ...
... darkness . In the next lecture we must study the incidents which may occur during the march of this army of stars . II . THE EVOLUTION OF STELLAR AND PLANETARY SYSTEMS . In the last lecture we followed up , so far as is permitted by mod ...
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... dark as to any general plan of the universe . Similarly before Ptolemy and Hipparchus , except for the existence of the planets , the plan of the solar system was not known . The astronomers of Alexandria made their names forever ...
... dark as to any general plan of the universe . Similarly before Ptolemy and Hipparchus , except for the existence of the planets , the plan of the solar system was not known . The astronomers of Alexandria made their names forever ...
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... dark but at times bright . The metallic lines are absent . We pass next to the classes A and F characterized by the intensity of the absorption spectrum of hydrogen . The lines of this element belonging to the Balmer series are very ...
... dark but at times bright . The metallic lines are absent . We pass next to the classes A and F characterized by the intensity of the absorption spectrum of hydrogen . The lines of this element belonging to the Balmer series are very ...
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Стр. 1 - England, who in 1826 bequeathed his property 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. 2 - 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, together with six other persons, other than Members of Congress, two of whom shall be resident in the city of Washington and the other four shall be inhabitants of some State, but no two of the same State.
Стр. 131 - Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the -family of the deceased, and that they be spread upon the records of this society.
Стр. 119 - To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: Your executive committee respectfully submits the following report in relation to the funds, receipts, and disbursements of the Institution, and...
Стр. 43 - The gallery of art, your committee think, should include both paintings and sculpture, as well as engravings and architectural designs; and it is desirable to have in connexion with it one or more studios in which young artists might copy without interruption, being admitted under such regulations as the board may prescribe.
Стр. 42 - ... of plain and durable materials and structure, without unnecessary ornament, and of sufficient size, and with suitable rooms or halls, for the reception and arrangement, upon a liberal scale, of objects of natural history, including a geological and mineralogical cabinet; also a chemical laboratory, a library, a gallery of art, and the necessary lecture rooms...
Стр. 78 - Servia, desiring to assure the immediate exchange of the Official Journal as well as of the parliamentary Annals and Documents...
Стр. 67 - In 1920 and 1921 he served as chairman of the Division of Anthropology and Psychology of the National Research Council, and at various times participated in numerous committees of both the NRC and the Social Science Research Council.
Стр. 43 - ... of Congress as an exhibition room for the works of artists generally; and the extent and general usefulness of such an exhibition might probably be increased, if an arrangement could be effected with the Academy of Design, the Arts Union, the Artists...
Стр. 305 - The form of the orange-tree, the cocoa-nut, the palm, the mango, the treefern, the banana, will remain clear and separate; but the thousand beauties which unite these into one perfect scene must fade away; yet they will leave, like a tale heard in childhood, a picture full of indistinct, but most beautiful figures.