Bulletin of the United States National MuseumSmithsonian Institution Press, 1916 - Science |
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Page 45 - 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...
Page 96 - The Queen desires to congratulate the President upon the successful completion of this great international work, in which the Queen has taken the deepest interest. ' ' The Queen is convinced that the President will join with her in fervently hoping that the Electric Cable which now connects Great Britain with the United States will prove an additional link between the nations whose friendship is founded upon their common interest and reciprocal esteem.
Page 46 - The gallery of art, your committee think, should include both paintings and sculpture, as well as engravings and architectural designs ; and it is desirable to have in connexion with it one or more studios in which young artists might copy without interruption, being admitted under such regulations as the board may prescribe. Your committee also think that, as the collection of paintings and sculpture will probably accumulate slowly, the room destined for a gallery of art might properly and usefully...
Page 107 - In witness whereof the said party of the first part has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written.
Page 105 - ... his heirs and assigns FOREVER. And the said party of the first part, for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators does covenant...
Page 47 - One part to be appropriated to increase and diffuse knowledge by means of publications and researches, agreeably to the scheme before given. The other part to be appropriated to the formation of a library and a collection of objects of nature and of art.
Page 101 - In this view, will not all nations of Christendom spontaneously unite in the declaration that it shall be forever neutral, and that its communications shall be held sacred in passing to their places of destination, even in the midst of hostilities?
Page 47 - ... art, and the illustration of antiquities, such as models of buildings, &.c. ; and, thirdly, to the formation of a collection of instruments of physical research, which will be required both in the illustration of new physical truths, and in the scientific investigations undertaken by the institution. Much popular interest may be awakened in favor of the institution at Washington, by throwing the rooms of the building open, on stated evenings...
Page 47 - ... called, the Lombard style, as it prevailed in Germany, Normandy, and in southern Europe in the twelfth century. The design comprises a center building, with two wings, connected with the main building by low ranges and a cloister. The entire front is 421 feet, and the extreme depth in the center, including the carriage porch, 153 feet. The height of the principal tower is 145 feet, and that of the main building, to the summit of the battlement, 58 feet. The design includes all the accommodations...
Page 45 - ... a suitable building, of plain and durable materials and structure, without unnecessary ornament, and of sufficient size, and with suitable rooms or halls, for the reception and arrangement, upon a literal scale, of objects of natural history, including a geological and mineralogical cabinet; also a chemical laboratory, a library, a gallery of art, and the necessary lecture rooms...