Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1871 |
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Pagina 7 - The property is bequeathed to the United States of America, " to found at Washington, under the name of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Pagina 10 - The following are some of the subjects which may be embraced in the reports: I. PHYSICAL CLASS. 1. Physics, including astronomy, natural philosophy, chemistry, and meteorology. 2. Natural history, including botany, zoology, geology, &c. 3. Agriculture. 4. Application of science to arts. II. MORAL AND POLITICAL CLASS. 5. Ethnology, including particular history, comparative philology, antiquities, &c.
Pagina 332 - The American Atlas: or, A Geographical Description of the Whole Continent of America...
Pagina 10 - By the publication of separate treatises on subjects of general interest. 1. These treatises may occasionally consist of valuable memoirs translated from foreign languages, or of articles prepared under the direction of the institution, or procured by offering premiums for the best exposition of a given subject. 2. The treatises should, in all cases, be submitted to a commission of competent judges, previous to their publication.
Pagina 81 - Royal 8vo, 6d. (South) -CHARTS SHOWING the SURFACE TEMPERATURE of the SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN in each Month of the Year. Compiled from Board of Trade Registers, and the Charts published by the Royal Meteorological Institute of the Netherlands.
Pagina 348 - ... criminal appearing and submitting himself to the ordeal of having spears thrown at him by all such persons as conceive themselves to have been aggrieved, or by permitting spears to be thrust through certain parts of his body ; such as through the thigh, or the calf of the leg, or under the arm. The part which is to be pierced by a spear is fixed for all common crimes, and a native who has incurred this penalty sometimes quietly holds out his leg for the injured party to thrust his spear through...
Pagina 8 - Institution, and the name of the author, as far as practicable, concealed, unless a favorable decision is made. 6. The volumes of the memoirs to be exchanged for the transactions of literary and scientific societies, and copies to be given to all the colleges and principal libraries in this country. One part of the remaining copies may be offered for sale, and the other carefully preserved, to form complete sets of the work, to supply the demand from new institutions.
Pagina 8 - ... all unnecessary expenditure on local objects would be a perversion of the trust. 14. Besides the foregoing considerations, deduced immediately from the will of Smithson, regard must be had to certain requirements of the act of Congress establishing the Institution. These are, a library, a museum, and a gallery of art, with a building on a liberal scale to contain them.
Pagina 186 - Chacornac a process of aggregation, or concretion, operating within the primal nebular mass, resulting in the production of sun and planets. In either case we come to the conclusion that our earth must at one time have been in an intensely heated gaseous condition, such as the sun now presents, self-luminous, and with a process of condensation going on at first at the surface only, until by cooling it must have reached the point where the gaseous centre was exchanged for one of combined and liquefied...
Pagina 413 - Humboldt was there in 1800, it was distant 2,700 toises, (3^ miles,) a proof of the retreat of the .waters confirmed by a number of facts. According to the celebrated traveler just named, the diminution of the waters was directly attributable to the clearing away of numerous forests. In 1822, M. Boussingault learned of the inhabitants that the waters of...