Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1866 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 86
Page 23
... period , makes an aggregate of 708 pp . and 25 plates in quarto as the record of the year . The following works in octavo were also published or printed in 1865 : Instructions relative to Ethnology and Philology of America . Appendix A ...
... period , makes an aggregate of 708 pp . and 25 plates in quarto as the record of the year . The following works in octavo were also published or printed in 1865 : Instructions relative to Ethnology and Philology of America . Appendix A ...
Page 24
... period of four months , Mr. Walker traced its path among the stars through its whole revolution of 166 years , and was thus enabled to carry its position backward until it fell among a cluster of stars , each of which had been ...
... period of four months , Mr. Walker traced its path among the stars through its whole revolution of 166 years , and was thus enabled to carry its position backward until it fell among a cluster of stars , each of which had been ...
Page 30
... period in lower latitudes ; and this fact is the more interesting since the position above mentioned is very nearly the centre of the auroral belt as marked out by Professor Loomis , and exhibited in the appendix of the report for this ...
... period in lower latitudes ; and this fact is the more interesting since the position above mentioned is very nearly the centre of the auroral belt as marked out by Professor Loomis , and exhibited in the appendix of the report for this ...
Page 33
... period of eleven months , and were made at every other even hour , day and night , with a few exceptions , ( as to the pressure , ) during the whole time . The expedition was provided with about two dozen thermometers , consisting of ...
... period of eleven months , and were made at every other even hour , day and night , with a few exceptions , ( as to the pressure , ) during the whole time . The expedition was provided with about two dozen thermometers , consisting of ...
Page 34
... period and obscured the di- rect action of the sun . On the average for the whole year the tem- perature rises until 23 p . m . and falls till 2 a . m . , and the average tem- perature of the day is reached at 8 o'clock morning and ...
... period and obscured the di- rect action of the sun . On the average for the whole year the tem- perature rises until 23 p . m . and falls till 2 a . m . , and the average tem- perature of the day is reached at 8 o'clock morning and ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Academy acid action age of bronze age of stone animal apparatus appears atmosphere aurora auroral light Auvernier battery birds Blainville Bonap bubble catenoid cause centimetres circuit collection contraction cuticle diameter direct current direction discharge earth effect electric current electro-motor power electro-physiology electrodes epoch excited experiment extremities fibres Figure films furnished galvanometer galvanoscopic frog height inverse current iron irritated labors lacustrian lake Lake Neuchâtel lake of Neuchâtel laminar latitude less light liquid magnetic means memoir ment metal meteorological metres millimetres muscle muscular museum nasal nasal cavity nature needle nervous objects observations obtained organ palafittes pass points pole portion present pressure produced Professor quantity regard RICHARD DELAFIELD rings Secretary seen sensation of smell sense skin Smithsonian Institution society species specimens stations stratum surface temperature Tène tion torpedo Totten touch traversed tube United upper wire
Popular passages
Page 10 - DETAILS OF THE PLAN FOR DIFFUSING KNOWLEDGE I. By the publication of 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.
Page 8 - To INCREASE KNOWLEDGE. It is proposed — 1. To stimulate men of talent to make original researches, by offering suitable rewards for memoirs containing new truths ; and, 2. To appropriate annually a portion of the income for particular researches, under the direction of suitable persons.
Page 10 - Each collaborator to be furnished with the journals and publications, domestic and foreign, necessary to the compilation of his report ; to be paid a certain sum for his labors, and to be named on the titlepage of the report. / 4. The reports to be published in separate parts, so that persons interested in a particular branch can procure the parts relating to it without purchasing the whole. 5. These reports may be presented to Congress, for partial distribution, the remaining copies to be given...
Page 453 - Each essay must be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name and address of the author and bearing on the outside the motto or device which is inscribed upon the essay.
Page 11 - With reference to the collection of books, other than those mentioned above, catalogues of all the different libraries in the United States should be procured, in order that the valuable books first purchased may be such as are not to be found in the United States.
Page 140 - States," has organized them so as to produce their full effect ; whether your own experience in the several States has not detected some imperfections in the scheme ; and whether a material feature, in an improvement of it, ought not to be to afford an opportunity for the study of those branches of the military art, which can scarcely ever be attained by practice alone.
Page 8 - ... be considered, but also the continual expense of keeping it in repair, and of the support of the establishment necessarily connected with it. There should also be but few individuals permanently supported by the Institution. 12. The plan and dimensions of the building should be determined by the plan of the organization, and not the converse.
Page 121 - The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to receive into the Treasury, on the same terms as the original bequest of James Smithson, such sums as the regents may, from time to time, see fit to deposit, not exceeding, with the original bequest, the sum of one million dollars.
Page 7 - The property is bequeathed to the United States of America, " to found at Washington, under the name of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Page 9 - ... and the other carefully preserved, to form complete sets of the work, to supply the demand from new institutions. 7. An abstract, or popular account, of the contents of these memoirs to be given to the public through the annual report of the Regente to Congress.