Bulletin, Issue 101Smithsonian Institution Press, 1917 - Science |
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Page 69 - States : and also to make, have, and use, a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew, at their pleasure: and also to ordain, establish, and put in execution...
Page 36 - ... contemplation for a university in the Federal City. But, as these obstacles appear to be insurmountable, the next best site for this purpose, in my opinion, is the square surrounded by numbers twenty-one, twentytwo, thirty-four, forty-five, sixty to sixty-three, and I decide in favor of it accordingly. Conceiving, if there be space sufficient to afford it, that a botanical garden would be a good appendage to the institution of a university, part of this square might be applied to that purpose....
Page 69 - Science, and their successors duly, elected in the manner hereinafter mentioned, be, and they are hereby, constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name and title of the...
Page 14 - ... is chemistry which explains the phenomena of vegetation, the growth, the maturation, and the death of plants ; and to chemistry we must have recourse to remedy the diseases to which they are subject. * * * On taking a retrospect of the importance of this association, I cannot refrain from indulging the pleasing hope, that the members of our national government, to whom has been confided the guardianship of the District of Columbia, will extend their fostering care to this establishment, and,...
Page 61 - ... that, situated as we are in this western hemisphere, more than three thousand miles from any fixed or known meridian, it would be proper, in a national point of view, to establish a first meridian for ourselves; and that measures should be taken for the eventual establishment of such a meridian in the United States. " In examining the maps and charts of the United States, and the particular states, or their...
Page 49 - This first greenhouse was constructed in 1842, presumably from the appropriation of $20,000 to the Naval Service for transporting to Washington, and arranging and preserving the collections made by the Exploring Expedition. Greenhouse construction was further continued on the same square during the two succeeding years, under the direction and control of the Library Committee. The civil and diplomatic appropriation act of March 3, 1843, contained an item of $1,200 for taking care of the botanical...
Page 38 - That there be granted, during the pleasure of Congress, to the Columbian Institute for the promotion of Arts and Sciences, the use and Improvement of a tract of public land in the city of Washington, not exceeding five acres, to be located under the direction of the President of the United States, for the purpose of enabling the said Columbian Institute to effect the object of their incorporation...
Page 29 - Sciences," was formed at Washington in 1816, and incorporated by Congress in 1818. It consists of five classes, viz. mathematical sciences, physical sciences, moral and political sciences, general literature, and the fine arts. The annual meeting is held on the last Saturday in each year. XXVI. FLORIDA TERRITORY. GOVERNMENT. Salary. WILLIAM P. DUVALL, Governor ; first appointed in 1822; term of office expires in April, 1834 ; $2,500 James D. Westcott, 1,500 JUDICIARY. Judges. Salary. Attorneys. Marshals....
Page 75 - ... Linnaean system, under their respective classes and orders, etc., and exhibiting their generally received common names, and time of flowering, during the years 1817 and 1818. Washington: printed for the Washington Botanical Society by Jacob Gideon, Jun., 1819." The work is a 14-page pamphlet giving a bare list of the technical and popular names of 296 species of flowering plants with the date of their observation in 1817 and 1818. It apparently was intended as a working list for the members of...