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Page 162 - BLAKE, WP Report upon the Precious Metals. Being Statistical Notices of the Principal Gold and Silver producing regions of the world, represented at the Paris Universal Exposition. 8vo, cloth $2.00 BLAKESLEY, TH Alternating Currents of Electricity.
Page 139 - SIR: I have received the letter which you did me the honor to address to me...
Page 25 - COLORADO: SCHEDULE OF ORES contributed by sundry persons to the Paris Universal Exposition, of 1867, with some information about the Region and its Resources. By JP WHITNEY, Commissioner from, the Territory.
Page 138 - Charge d' Affaires of His most Christian Majesty. WASHINGTON [CiTY,] FeVy llth 1837. GENTLEMEN, I have received the letter you did me the honor to address to me on the 8th inst. with several Documents in relation to Texas, accompanied with the request that " I should ascertain from my Government, whether a Diplomatic agent from Texas would be received by my Government for the purpose of negotiating a Treaty of Amity and Commerce.
Page 27 - Machinery and Processes of the Industrial Arts and Apparatus of the Exact Sciences...
Page 12 - The objects sent to the exhibition will be received, in effect, in a palace constructed for the occasion of this solemnity, and the size of which should meet the actual need of the exhibitors of all nations. But that the general arrangements and plans which shall be adopted may be in relation with the claims for space which will be preferred, it will be necessary that the imperial commission should know, with the least delay, what States will take part in the exhibition, and how much space each would...
Page 142 - That fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purposes severally specified, are hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. " For additional freights from New York to Havre. " For transportation and freight from Havre to Paris.