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Page v - The President of the United States ; The President of the Senate; The Speaker of the House of Representatives; The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ; The President of the National Academy of Sciences ; John S.
Page 190 - Among its aims are these : 1. To promote original research, paying great attention thereto as one of the most important of all departments. 2. To discover the exceptional man in every department of study whenever and wherever found, inside or outside of schools, and enable him to make the work for which he seems specially designed his life work.
Page 190 - ... 5. To enable such students as may find Washington the best point for their special studies to enjoy the advantages of the museums, libraries, laboratories, observatory, meteorological, piscicultural, and forestry schools, and kindred institutions of the several departments of the Government. 6. To ensure the prompt publication and distribution of the results of scientific investigation, a field considered highly important.
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Page viii - STATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Los Angeles— SS. On this day of , 1943, before me, , a Notary Public in and for said County and State, personally appeared , .known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that they executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF...
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Page xxxvi - It is proposed to found in the city of Washington, in the spirit of Washington, an institution which, with the cooperation of institutions now or hereafter established, there or elsewhere, shall, in the broadest and most liberal manner, encourage investigation, research and discovery, encourage the application of knowledge to the improvement of mankind ; provide such buildings, laboratories, books and apparatus as may be needed, and afford instruction of an advanced character to students whenever...