Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian Institution, 1910 |
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... complete volumes and parts of volumes , besides over 34,000 parts of periodical publications . Of the accessions more than 20,000 were placed in the Smithsonian deposit in the Library of Con- gress , and the remainder were divided among ...
... complete volumes and parts of volumes , besides over 34,000 parts of periodical publications . Of the accessions more than 20,000 were placed in the Smithsonian deposit in the Library of Con- gress , and the remainder were divided among ...
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... hundred languages are to be considered , a number of years will be required to complete the work . ( c ) Handbook of Race History : Physical and 40 Report on the International Exchanges Report on the Bureau of American Ethnology.
... hundred languages are to be considered , a number of years will be required to complete the work . ( c ) Handbook of Race History : Physical and 40 Report on the International Exchanges Report on the Bureau of American Ethnology.
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... completing the second part of the Handbook of American Indians did not proceed as rapidly as was hoped at the beginning of the year , owing to the fact that the burden of the administrative work of the bureau devolved upon Mr. Hodge ...
... completing the second part of the Handbook of American Indians did not proceed as rapidly as was hoped at the beginning of the year , owing to the fact that the burden of the administrative work of the bureau devolved upon Mr. Hodge ...
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... complete that it is hoped the entire work will be submitted for publication before the end of August , 1909. In addition to this work Doctor Thomas assisted to some extent in the preparation of Part 2 of the Handbook of American Indians ...
... complete that it is hoped the entire work will be submitted for publication before the end of August , 1909. In addition to this work Doctor Thomas assisted to some extent in the preparation of Part 2 of the Handbook of American Indians ...
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... complete the reports of unfinished researches of previous years . During his stay in Washington his services were enlisted in the building of a number of large models of the ruins for the Alaska- Yukon - Pacific Exposition at Seattle ...
... complete the reports of unfinished researches of previous years . During his stay in Washington his services were enlisted in the building of a number of large models of the ruins for the Alaska- Yukon - Pacific Exposition at Seattle ...
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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.