Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian Institution, 1910 |
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... animals and birds , so as to come out at tide water , say , about March 1. This would give me ten months in Africa . As you know , I am not in the least a game butcher . I like to do a certain amount of hunting , but my real and main ...
... animals and birds , so as to come out at tide water , say , about March 1. This would give me ten months in Africa . As you know , I am not in the least a game butcher . I like to do a certain amount of hunting , but my real and main ...
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... animals . A letter from Lieut . Col. Edgar A. Mearns , dated May 20 , states that the collection includes 11 large mammals and 3 large birds , all in fine condition and for the most part well broken to captivity , as follows : A male ...
... animals . A letter from Lieut . Col. Edgar A. Mearns , dated May 20 , states that the collection includes 11 large mammals and 3 large birds , all in fine condition and for the most part well broken to captivity , as follows : A male ...
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... animals to its collections , which offsets a loss of 562 by exchange , death , and return of animals , and brings the number of individuals on hand June 30 , 1909 , up to 1,416 . There were 564,639 visitors , a daily average of about ...
... animals to its collections , which offsets a loss of 562 by exchange , death , and return of animals , and brings the number of individuals on hand June 30 , 1909 , up to 1,416 . There were 564,639 visitors , a daily average of about ...
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... animals are housed in poor wooden buildings and exposed cages , which are not only inadequate and unsightly but also entail a larger annual expense for repairs and maintenance than the dictates of economy would seem to justify ...
... animals are housed in poor wooden buildings and exposed cages , which are not only inadequate and unsightly but also entail a larger annual expense for repairs and maintenance than the dictates of economy would seem to justify ...
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... animals obtained in Labrador , by Mr. Owen Bryant ; and a large collection of Peruvian reptiles , mollusks , crusta- ceans , and sponges from the Peruvian Government . The large collection of birds secured during the expedition of Mr ...
... animals obtained in Labrador , by Mr. Owen Bryant ; and a large collection of Peruvian reptiles , mollusks , crusta- ceans , and sponges from the Peruvian Government . The large collection of birds secured during the expedition of Mr ...
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Page 670 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 670 - Which some call nature's bastards : of that kind Our rustic garden's barren; and I care not To get slips of them.
Page 112 - ... telegraph, telephone, and cable companies (whether wire or wireless) engaged in sending messages from one State, Territory, or District of the United States, to any other State, Territory, or District of the United States, or to any foreign country...
Page 434 - I should have thought myself mad to give up the first days of partridge-shooting for geology or any other science.
Page 112 - ... shipped : Provided, that nothing herein shall prevent the transportation of any dead birds or animals killed during the season when the same may be lawfully captured, and the export of which is not prohibited by law in the state, territory, or district in which the same are captured or killed: Provided further, that nothing herein shall prevent the importation, transportation, or sale of birds or bird plumage manufactured from the feathers of barnyard fowls.
Page 437 - Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical plants, the beauty of the flowers, the glossy green of the foliage, but above all the genoral luxuriance of the vegetation, filled me with admiration.
Page 113 - International exchanges: 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.
Page 114 - For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources...
Page 671 - ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, (in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility ;) that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and dead, we may rise to the life immortal...
Page 105 - to be awarded for specially meritorious investigations in connection with the science of aerodromics and its application to aviation.