Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution |
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My great desire has been to unite modern work with masterpieces of certain periods of high civilization , harmonious in spiritual and physical suggestion , having the power to broaden æsthetic culture and the grace to elevate the human ...
My great desire has been to unite modern work with masterpieces of certain periods of high civilization , harmonious in spiritual and physical suggestion , having the power to broaden æsthetic culture and the grace to elevate the human ...
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To avoid the confusion and inconvenience likely to result from the duplication of appointments , Doctor Dohrn has recently made a request that two students should not be assigned to Naples at the same period without previous ...
To avoid the confusion and inconvenience likely to result from the duplication of appointments , Doctor Dohrn has recently made a request that two students should not be assigned to Naples at the same period without previous ...
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... widespread glaciation during that period and their wibsequent readjustment over the glaciated area all combine to form a complex arrangement , to solve which will require large collections of specimens from the Pleistocene deposits ...
... widespread glaciation during that period and their wibsequent readjustment over the glaciated area all combine to form a complex arrangement , to solve which will require large collections of specimens from the Pleistocene deposits ...
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Mr. Maddren summarizes his conclusions as follows : I. That while remnants of the large Pleistocene mammal herds may have survived down to the Recent period and in some cases their direct descendants , as the musk - ox , to the present ...
Mr. Maddren summarizes his conclusions as follows : I. That while remnants of the large Pleistocene mammal herds may have survived down to the Recent period and in some cases their direct descendants , as the musk - ox , to the present ...
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During this time more additions to its collections have been recorded than in any previous year save the period immediately following the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. From the Louisiana Purchase Exposition alone over thirty carloads ...
During this time more additions to its collections have been recorded than in any previous year save the period immediately following the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. From the Louisiana Purchase Exposition alone over thirty carloads ...
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Стр. 2 - THE BOARD OF REGENTS. The Board of Regents consists of the Vice President and the Chief Justice of the United 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. li - RESOLUTION for the appointment of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the vacancies in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class "other than members of Congress" be filled by the appointment of Theodore D.
Стр. liv - All appropriations made for contingent expenses or other general purposes, except appropriations made in fulfillment of contract obligations expressly authorized by law, or for objects required or authorized by law without reference to the amounts annually appropriated therefor, shall, on or before the beginning of each fiscal year...
Стр. 393 - The action of climate seems at first sight to be quite independent of the struggle for existence ; but, in so far as climate chiefly acts in reducing food, it brings on the most severe struggle between the individuals, whether of the same or of distinct species, which subsist on the same kind of food. Even when climate — for instance, extreme cold — acts directly, it will be the least vigorous, or those which have got the least food through the advancing winter, which will suffer most.
Стр. liii - No Executive Department or other Government establishment of the United States shall expend, in any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract or other obligation for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations unless such contract or obligation is authorized by law.
Стр. x - 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...
Стр. liv - Nor shall any Department or any officer of the Government accept voluntary service for the Government or employ personal service in excess of that authorized by law, except in cases of sudden emergency involving the loss of human life or the destruction of property.
Стр. 5 - Henry were, in his own words, "to assist men of science in making original researches, to publish them in a series of volumes, and to give a copy of them to every first-class library on the face of the earth.
Стр. 27 - Park for the advancement of science and the instruction and recreation of the people.
Стр. liii - For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and for the "Bulletins" and "Proceedings" of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not be less than three thousand copies, and binding, in half turkey or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, twenty-five thousand dollars.