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Page 2 - 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, which may be in the city of Washington...
Page 30 - The cataloging of the named specimens of crustaceans, echinoderins, hydroids, bryozoans, alcyonarian and stony corals, and annelids in the division of marine invertebrates was brought up to date, and the extensive collection of echinoderms was rearranged, permitting the recent additions in that group to be assigned their appropriate places. A very large amount of, work was accomplished in identifying and rearranging specimens in the division of insects. To accommodate the Schaus collection of Lepidoptera...
Page 119 - Am., vol. xii, p. 75, 1901. 1 Stanton, TW, and Martin, GC, Mesozoic Section on Cook inlet and Alaska peninsula: Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., vol.
Page 3 - Congress, the use of the word " charter " in this connection was not correct. committee think, be usefully introduced. This would supply opportunity to examine samples of the best manufactured articles our country affords, and to judge her gradual progress in arts and manufactures. * * * "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...
Page 4 - Fund Society, and other associations of similar character, so as to concentrate at the metropolis for a certain portion of each winter the best results of talent in the fine arts." The important points in the foregoing report are (1) that it was the opinion of the Regents that a museum was requisite under the law, Congress having left no discretion in the matter; (2) that ethnology and anthropology, though not specially named, were yet as important subjects as natural history; (3) that the history...
Page 96 - Report upon the Condition and Progress of the US National Museum during the year ending June 30, 1896.
Page 95 - A contribution to the oceanography of the Pacific, compiled from data collected by the United States steamer Nero while engaged in the survey of a route for a trans-Pacific cable.
Page 4 - Smithson, as expressed in his will, that one of the principal modes of executing the act and the trust is the accumulation of collections of specimens and objects of natural history and of elegant art, and the gradual formation of a library of valuable works pertaining to all departments of human knowledge, to the end that a copious storehouse of materials of science, literature, and art may...
Page 101 - Rhinolophus hirsutus, p. 289. on some bats of the genus Rhinolophus, with remarks on their mutual affinities and descriptions of twenty-six new forms. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1905, n, Oct.
Page 120 - Dec. 26, 1905, pp. iv, 1-62, pis. i-XIV. The work of the Nero was from Honolulu to Midway Island, thence to Guam, thence to Luzon, and also from Guam to Japan. The number of soundings made was 2,074. The author gives an account of the track, depths, gradients, temperatures, and character of the bottom, the deposits at a selected number of stations being recorded in detail. BIOGRAPHY. DALL, WILLIAM HEALEY. Obituary notice, Marcus Baker, 1849-1903. Bull. Philos. Soc. Wash., xiv, Aug., 1905, pp. 277-285....

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