Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian Institution, 1910 |
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... existence and the conflict between indi- vidual and individual . During the nineteenth century the application of bio- logical principles to human society strengthened this idea . It is the mission of the twentieth century to ...
... existence and the conflict between indi- vidual and individual . During the nineteenth century the application of bio- logical principles to human society strengthened this idea . It is the mission of the twentieth century to ...
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... existence of these problems in- volves an obligation not only to ourselves , but to the civilized world to concen- trate our efforts upon their solution . Through their solution we can make that contribution to the progress of mankind ...
... existence of these problems in- volves an obligation not only to ourselves , but to the civilized world to concen- trate our efforts upon their solution . Through their solution we can make that contribution to the progress of mankind ...
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... existence . As they are dead I will not combat them . We know that mathe- matics still develops and our task is to find in what sense . Some one replies , " in every sense ; " and in part that is true . But , if abso- lutely true , it ...
... existence . As they are dead I will not combat them . We know that mathe- matics still develops and our task is to find in what sense . Some one replies , " in every sense ; " and in part that is true . But , if abso- lutely true , it ...
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... existence of a man than we have for that of an unelectrified molecule we should come to the conclusion that the earth is uninhabited . Contrast this with our power of detecting electrified molecules . We can by the electrical method ...
... existence of a man than we have for that of an unelectrified molecule we should come to the conclusion that the earth is uninhabited . Contrast this with our power of detecting electrified molecules . We can by the electrical method ...
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... existence of positive units comparable in mass with the negative ones . I have found , how- ever , that in these cases the positive particles are moving very slowly , and that the ease with which they are deflected is due to the ...
... existence of positive units comparable in mass with the negative ones . I have found , how- ever , that in these cases the positive particles are moving very slowly , and that the ease with which they are deflected is due to the ...
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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.