Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

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Стр. 114 - ... telegraph, telephone, and cable companies (whether wire or wireless) engaged in sending messages from one State, Territory, or District of the United States, to any other State, Territory, or District of the United States, or to any foreign country...
Стр. 116 - For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and Increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources...
Стр. 434 - I should have thought myself mad to give up the first days of partridge-shooting for geology or any other science.
Стр. 437 - Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical plants, the beauty of the flowers, the glossy green of the foliage, but above all the genoral luxuriance of the vegetation, filled me with admiration.
Стр. 81 - Government exhibit, a board of management shall be created, to be charged with the selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, safe-keeping, exhibition, and return of such articles and materials as the heads of the several departments and the...
Стр. 107 - to be awarded for specially meritorious investigations in connection with the science of aerodromics and its application to aviation.
Стр. 16 - Museum, with general appendixes, and for printing labels and blanks, and for the bulletins and proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not...
Стр. 680 - I have now concluded my preliminary remarks, and I thank you for the patience with which you have heard me...
Стр. 121 - Institution ; and memoirs of a general character or on special topics that are of interest or value to the numerous correspondents of the Institution. It has been a prominent object of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, from a very early date, to enrich the annual report required of them by law with memoirs illustrating the more remarkable and important developments in physical and biological discovery, as well as showing the general character of the operations of the Institution;...
Стр. 121 - ADVERTISEMENT. The object of the GENERAL APPENDIX to the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution is to furnish brief accounts of scientific discovery in particular directions; reports of investigations made by collaborators of the Institution ; and memoirs of a general character or on special topics that are of interest or value to the numerous correspondents of the Institution.

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