Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1898 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 105 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
Seite xlv - ... shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States; and...
Seite xlvii - That all such articles when sold or withdrawn for consumption or use in the United States shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of...
Seite 101 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Seite 47 - 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.
Seite x - Institution, to be composed of the Vice President, the Chief Justice of the United States, and three members of the Senate and three members of the House of Representatives...
Seite 24 - I can not describe to you the extreme beauty of their aerial evolutions, when a hawk chanced to press upon the rear of. a flock. At once, like a torrent, and with a noise like thunder, they rushed into a compact mass, pressing upon each other toward the center.
Seite 623 - That for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress at the said city of Washington, and for fitting up a suitable apartment for containing them...
Seite 83 - Institution, from a very early date, to enrich the annual report required of them by law with memoirs illustrating the more remarkable and important developments in physical and biological discovery...
Seite 477 - ... animals are painted by nature darkest on those parts which tend to be most lighted by the sky's light,