Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1899 - Discoveries in science |
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Page 279 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Page 26 - ... shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States...
Page 301 - Mendeleeff which states that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic weights.
Page 561 - Koebele, an attache'- of the Division of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page x - Washington, during the time for which they shall hold their respective offices ; three members of the Senate, and three members of the House of Representatives, together with six other persons, other than members of Congress, two of whom shall be...
Page xlviii - For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals...
Page 51 - For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $32,000.
Page x - The business of the institution shall be conducted at the city of Washington by a Board of Regents, named the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution...
Page 398 - I wish that some doubly rich millionaire Would take it into his head to have borings made in some of the Pacific and Indian atolls, and bring home cores for slicing from a depth of 500 or 600 feet.
Page 621 - Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.