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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents Affichage du livre entier - 1869 |
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents Affichage du livre entier - 1922 |
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents Affichage du livre entier - 1872 |
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Page 58 - ... illustrate the functions and administrative faculties of the Government in time of peace and its resources as a war power, and thereby serve to demonstrate the nature of our institutions and their adaptation to the wants of the people...
Page 31 - Committee on the library, be, and he hereby is, directed to print fifty copies in addition to the regular number, of all documents hereafter printed by order of either house of Congress, or by order of any department or bureau of the government...
Page 110 - Required for the six months ending 30th June, 1876. The estimates submitted by the Institution to Congress for appropriations for the fiscal year ending 30th June, 1877, were as follows: For preservation of the collections of the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government $25, 000 00 For fitting up apartments for mounting and photographing specimens 5, 000 00 30,000 00 This sum is $5,000 less than the amount asked for the previous year.
Page 165 - Belginm has published statistical documents more extended and better co ordinated than those of other states, she owes this principally to the fact of having had M. Quetelet for president of the commission of statistics. Until the close of his life, he collected and published data upon the physical .and moral conditions of man, under the head of social physics. These were highly appreciated by the Academy of Moral and Political Science of the Institute of France, which made him first correspondent...
Page 161 - ... think the interests or relations of the two Countries could be improved by this means, I shall be happy to enter upon a consideration of this subject at such time and in such manner as Your Excellency may deem best. I avail myself of this occasion to renew to Your Excellency assurances of the very distinguished consideration with which I have the honor to be Your very obedient and humble servant ASHBEL SMITH His Excellency Mr GTnzor, Minister of Foreign Affairs, etc.
Page 352 - If the shape of the described implements did not indicate their original use, the peculiar traces of wear which they exhibit would furnish almost conclusive evidence of the manner in which they have been employed; for that part with which the digging was done, appears, notwithstanding the hardness of the material, perfectly smooth, as if glazed, and slightly striated in the direction in which the implement penetrated the ground.
Page 317 - World looks with peculiar interest on the growing fabrics of those huge steamers which have made the ocean, that proved so impassable a barrier to the men of the fifteenth century, the easy highway of pleasure and commerce to us. The roar of the iron-forge, the clang of the trip-hammer, the intermittent glare of the furnaces, and all the novel appliances of iron ship building, tell of the modern era of steam ; but, meanwhile, underneath these very ship-builders...
Page 5 - ... of the United States. H. HAMLIN, member of the Senate of the United States. JW STEVENSON, member of the Senate of the United States. AA SARGENT, member of the Senate of the United States.
Page 2 - That ten thousand five hundred copies of the Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year...
Page 378 - Pacific, we might expect their descendants, though they should never become more enlightened than the South Sea Islanders or the Esquimaux, to spread in the course of ages over the whole earth, diffused partly by the tendency of population to increase, in a limited district, beyond the means of subsistence, and partly by the accidental drifting of canoes by tides and currents to distant shores.
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| Titre | Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Mis. doc. Publication (Smithsonian Institution) |
| Auteur | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents |
| Éditeur | The Institution, 1876 |
| Original provenant de | Université de Harvard |
| Numérisé | 27 mars 2007 |
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