Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Agriculture American Journal argillite assistant beds Biogr birds bowlders Cambrian Carboniferous Carolina clay coal collection College colored containing County Cretaceous Curator Department deposits described Devonian drift earth Edward Hitchcock Emmons Eocene Eozoon expedition feet formation fossils geological geological map geologist glacial gneiss granite graywacke Hayden Hitchcock Island J. J. Stevenson James Journal of Science Lake Lake Superior land Lepidoptera lignite limestone Lower mass material Mexico mineral mineralogy Miocene Mississippi mollusks Mountains Natural History North noted ocean Ohio origin paleontologist Paleozoic paper Pennsylvania period Permian photograph plants plates portion Portrait Proc Prof professor published Purchase quartz red sandstone regarded region River rocks sand shells Silurian Sketch slate Smithsonian South species specimens stone strata surface Taconic Tertiary tion Triassic U. S. Geological Survey U. S. Nat U. S. National Museum Upper Valley views Washington William York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 560 - In whatever direction a body moves on the surface of the earth there is a force arising from the earth's rotation which deflects it to the right in the northern, but to the left in the southern hemisphere.
Seite 5 - And all collections of rocks, minerals, soils, fossils, and objects of natural history, archieology, and ethnology, made by the Coast and Interior Survey, the Geological Survey, or by any other parties for the Government of the United States, when no longer needed for investigations in progress, shall be deposited in the National Museum.
Seite 338 - God had •determined to bring upon the earth at once, " the windows of heaven were opened, and the fountains of the great deep broken up.
Seite 211 - I therefore imagined that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with ; which therefore might swim in or upon that fluid. Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell, capable of being broken and disordered by the violent movements of the fluid on which it rested.
Seite 735 - Both these inscriptions may be referred to the end of the sixth or beginning of the fifth century BC...
Seite 529 - Of these, the most important and the only one that need here be considered is one on the geology of the survey for the extension of the Union Pacific Railroad from the Smoky Hill River, Kansas, to the Rio Grande.
Seite 350 - I had reached the mouth of Rock river ; engaged one hundred and thirty-nine sub-agents and assistants ; instructed my sub-agents in such elementary principles of geology as were necessary to the performance of the duties required of them; supplied them with simple mineralogical tests, with the application of which they were made acquainted ; organized twenty-four working corps, furnished each with skeleton maps of the townships assigned to them for examination, and placed the whole at the points...
Seite 3 - Regents to receive them, and shall be so arranged and classified in the building erected for the institution as best to facilitate the examination and study of them; and whenever new specimens in natural history, geology, or mineralogy are obtained for the museum of the institution, by exchanges of duplicate specimens, which the regents may in their discretion make, or by donation, which they may receive, or otherwise, the regents shall cause such new specimens to be appropriately classed and arranged.
Seite 218 - Land in the cities can no longer rise in value. The communistic society must prevail, and in the course of a few years Philadelphia must be deserted; those who live long enough may come back here and see the foxes looking out of the windows.
Seite 3 - That, in proportion as suitable arrangements can be made for their reception, all objects of art and of foreign and curious research, and all objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens, belonging or hereafter to belong, to the United States...