 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents - Art and state - 1935 - 654 pages
...important of these is the National Museum. The original act establishing the Smithsonian provides that objects of art and of foreign and curious research,...objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens belonging, or hereafter to belong, to the United States, which may be in the... | |
 | Mineral industries - 1905 - 594 pages
...politics and favoritism. By the Act of 1846, the Institution was directed by Congress to take charge of " all objects of art and of foreign and curious research,...objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens belonging to the Government," and to arrange and classify them for study and... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents - Art and state - 1938 - 840 pages
...important of these is the National Museum. The original act establishing the Smithsonian provides that objects of art and of foreign and curious research,...objects of natural history, plants, and geological an mineralological specimens belonging, or hereafter to belong, to th United States, which may be in... | |
 | Photography - 1926 - 628 pages
...cover a wide range, and, according to the original act of foundation, include within their scope " all objects of art and of foreign and curious research...objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens belonging to the United States." The Museum is maintained by Congress, but... | |
 | David Chambers Mearns - Libraries - 1947 - 264 pages
...geological and mineralogical cabinet, a chemical laboratory, a library, a gallery of art, and lecture rooms. "All objects of art and of foreign and curious research," and all objects of natural history, plants, and mineralogical specimens being the property of the Government in Washington, were to be concentrated... | |
 | United States National Museum - Science - 1926 - 922 pages
...plan. The Congress which passed the act of foundation enumerated as within the scope of the Museum " all objects of art and of foreign and curious research...objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens belonging to the United States," thus indicating the Museum at the very outset... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1916 - 228 pages
...collections. The Congress which passed the act of foundation enumerated as within the scope of the Museum "all objects of art and of foreign and curious research...objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens belonging to the United 7 States," thus stamping the Museum at the very outset... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1890 - 636 pages
...Institution was established by act of Congress in 1846. One of the provisions of the act was that u all objects of art and of foreign and curious research,...objects of natural history; plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens" belonging to the United States should be placed in the custody of the Institution,... | |
 | United States - 1952 - 604 pages
...History and description.—The mineralogical cabinet of James Sinithson and all objects of art arid of foreign and curious research, and all objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens belonging * * * to the United States, which may be in the city of Washington—... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1885 - 960 pages
...Institution in 1858, in accordance with the act of incorporation passed in 1846, by which it is provided that, "all objects of art and of foreign and curious...objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogica! specimens belonging or hereafter to belong to the United States, which may be in the... | |
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all objects of art, and of foreign and curious research, and all objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineral specimens" which belong to the United States, and which are anywhere in the city of Washington, including those collected... 
