Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

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Seite 434 - For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow.
Seite 59 - His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near His Majesty the King of the Belgians, Her Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain, Mr.
Seite xl - for continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution...
Seite xxxix - 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.
Seite 463 - ... when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a long history; when we contemplate every complex structure and instinct as the summing up of many contrivances...
Seite xli - ... shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States...
Seite 5 - The emphasis upon publications as a means of diffusing knowledge was expressed by the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In his formal plan for the Institution, Joseph Henry articulated a program that included the following statement: "It is proposed to publish a series of reports, giving an account of the new discoveries in science, and of the changes made from year to year in all branches of knowledge not strictly professional.
Seite viii - Washington, during the time for which they shall hold their respective offices ; three members of the Senate, and three members of the House of Representatives, together with six other persons, other than members of Congress, two of whom shall be...
Seite 763 - If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling, it would be a man, a man of restless and versatile intellect, who, not content with an equivocal \ success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions, and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.
Seite 58 - Regent of Spain, His Majesty the King of Italy, His Majesty the King of Portugal and of the Algarves, His Majesty the King of Servia...

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