Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian Institution, 1910 |
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... earth , and its scant means and petty endowment are a reproach to our rich and generous nation . " ADMINISTRATION . The affairs of the Institution proper have progressed in a satis- factory manner during the year . All communications ...
... earth , and its scant means and petty endowment are a reproach to our rich and generous nation . " ADMINISTRATION . The affairs of the Institution proper have progressed in a satis- factory manner during the year . All communications ...
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... earth's atmosphere . - In 1891 the Institution pub- lished a volume of translations of important foreign memoirs on the " Mechanics of the earth's atmosphere , " which was prepared by Prof. Cleveland Abbe . There was put to press during ...
... earth's atmosphere . - In 1891 the Institution pub- lished a volume of translations of important foreign memoirs on the " Mechanics of the earth's atmosphere , " which was prepared by Prof. Cleveland Abbe . There was put to press during ...
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... Earth's Atmosphere , " comprising a selection of important French and German papers translated and edited by Prof. Cleveland Abbe . There was practically completed , ready for press , at the close of the year a Bibliography of ...
... Earth's Atmosphere , " comprising a selection of important French and German papers translated and edited by Prof. Cleveland Abbe . There was practically completed , ready for press , at the close of the year a Bibliography of ...
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... earth radiates . A computation of the results of these experi- ments is now far enough advanced to show their satisfactory quality . Precise knowledge of the selective absorption of our atmosphere for earth rays is still lacking , and ...
... earth radiates . A computation of the results of these experi- ments is now far enough advanced to show their satisfactory quality . Precise knowledge of the selective absorption of our atmosphere for earth rays is still lacking , and ...
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... earth radiates , had been begun by Mr. Fowle early in 1908. Results have been obtained by him for the transmission of all rays between wave - lengths 1μ and 10μ , through a column of air 400 feet long , containing various known amounts ...
... earth radiates , had been begun by Mr. Fowle early in 1908. Results have been obtained by him for the transmission of all rays between wave - lengths 1μ and 10μ , through a column of air 400 feet long , containing various known amounts ...
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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.