Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Том 4

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Smithsonian Institution Press, 1882

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Стр. 5 - 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, which may be in the city of Washington...
Стр. 6 - 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. 447 - Supplement to the Catalogue of Shield Reptiles in the Collection of the British Museum.
Стр. 1 - The collections given by the Governments of the several foreign nations, thirty in number, which participated in the exhibition at Philadelphia. 9. The industrial collections given by numerous manufacturing and commercial houses of Europe and America, at the time of the Philadelphia Exhibition and subsequently.
Стр. 126 - ... as long as the distance from the tip of the snout to the end of the occipital prominences.
Стр. 1 - A. — On the distribution of the fishes of the Alleghany region of South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, with descriptions of new or little known species.
Стр. 2 - It is a Museum of Record, in which are preserved the material foundations of an enormous amount of scientific knowledge — the types of numerous past investigations. This is especially the case with those materials which have served as a foundation for the reports upon the resources of the United States.
Стр. 5 - And all collections of rocks, minerals, soils, fossils, and objects of natural history, archieology, and ethnology, made by the Coast and Interior Survey, the Geological Survey, or by any other parties for the Government of the United States, when no longer needed for investigations in progress, shall be deposited in the National Museum.
Стр. 66 - Grd. San Diego to Alaska, in deep water; not very abundant anywhere south of Puget Sound, where it is quite common. It is chiefly herbivorous, like the other species of the genus, and with them spawns in May to July. It reaches a length of about a foot and a weight of 2 to 3 pounds. It is rarely seen in the San Francisco markets. 259.

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