An Account of the Smithsonian Institution: Its Origin, History, Objects and AchievementsFor Distribution at the Atlanta Exposition, 1895 - Всего страниц: 27 |
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accomplish his object-the administration ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL America be faithfully America to found Annual Reports Archæology ASTRO-PHYSICAL OBSERVATORY ATLANTA EXPOSITION 1895 bequeath the whole bequest Board of Regents bolometer Bureau of Ethnology Chancellor Chief Justice CITY OF WASHINGTON Courts of Chancery diffusion of knowledge Duke of Northumberland Duke of Somerset educational explorations fifty fossils found at Washington founder fund Henry Hungerfords of Studley important increase and diffusion Indian Insti INSTITUTION ITS ORIGIN international exchanges James Smithson JOHN QUINCY ADAMS legacy Let the trust let this result Lord Macie Mollusks MUSEUM BUILDING Museum of Record National Museum nearly object-the increase organization original research PHOTOGRAPH portion Professor Rhees Royal Society SAMUEL PIERPONT LANGLEY scientific institutions Seymour Sir Hugh Smithson Smithsonian building Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Park specimens spectroscope spectrum SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD tion trust of James United volumes Washington an establishment WASHINGTON FOR DISTRIBUTION
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Стр. 1880 - I, James Smithson, son of Hugh, first Duke of Northumberland, and Elizabeth, heiress of the Hungerfords of Audley, and niece of Charles the Proud, Duke of Somerset...
Стр. 1882 - British empire, a public institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life.
Стр. 1889 - That, in proportion as suitable arrangements can be made for their reception, all objects of art and of foreign and curious research, and all objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens, belonging or hereafter to belong, to the United States...
Стр. 1877 - Promote, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Стр. 1877 - America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Стр. 1886 - States as ex-officio members, three members of the Senate, three members of the House of Representatives, and six citizens, 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 them of the same state.
Стр. 1885 - As he himself summed it up, the plan was based on the conviction "that the intention of the donor was to advance science by original research and publication; that the establishment was for the benefit of mankind generally, and that all unnecessary expenditures on local objects would be violations of the trust.
Стр. 1882 - Federal city, as soon as navigation is perfected, will increase most rapidly, and that at a future day, if the affairs of the United States go on as rapidly as they have done, it will become the grand emporium of the West, and rival in magnitude and splendor the cities of the whole world." Inspired by a belief in the future greatness of the new nation, realizing that while the needs of England were well met by existing organizations such as would not be likely to spring up for many years in a new,...
Стр. 1879 - ... to whom our country has given birth, have passed their entire lifetime in work for its success. Its publications, six hundred and seventy in number, which when combined make up over one hundred dignified volumes, are to be found in every important library in the world, and some of them, it is safe to say, on the working-table of every scientific investigator in the world who can read English.
Стр. 1878 - Secretary of Agriculture. Regents of the Institution. — Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States, Chancellor; Adlai E.