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" To carry out the plan before described, a library will be required, consisting, 1st, of a complete collection of the transactions and proceedings of all the learned societies in the world ; 2d, of the more important current periodical publications, and... "
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution - Page 11
by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1858
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The American Journal of Science and Arts, Volume 6

1848 - 486 pages
...periodical reports. 5. The institution should make special collections, particularly of objects to verify its own publications. 6. Also a collection...branches of experimental science. 7. With reference to a collection of books, other than those mentioned above, catalogues of all the different libraries...
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Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 1

American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1848 - 390 pages
...income of their fund. The remainder is to be expended in the formation and maintenance of a library, a collection of instruments of research in all branches of experimental science, and a museum. This partition of the income of the fund is stated to be ' a compromise between the two...
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Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 1

American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1848 - 378 pages
...income of their fund. The remainder is to be expended in the formation and maintenance of a library, a collection of instruments of research in all branches of experimental science, and a museum. This partition of the income of the fund is stated to be ' a compromise between the two...
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THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES

JOSEPH B. VARNUM - 1854 - 130 pages
...should make special collections, particularly of objects to illustrate and verify its own publications. "Also, a collection of instruments of research in all branches of experimental science. " With reference to the collection of books, other than those mentioned above, catalogues of all the...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1854 - 284 pages
...income of their fund. The remainder is to be expended in the formation and maintenance of a library, a collection of instruments of research in all branches of experimental science, and a museum. This partition of the income of the fund is stated to be " a compromise between the two...
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The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere ..., Volume 3

Scientific expeditions - 1856 - 794 pages
...Looking over the programme of organization of the Smithsonian Institution, I found that it proposes — "Also a collection of instruments of research in all branches of experimental science ;" and as such an instrument is within the limits of portability, and might be used* in obtaining astronomical...
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Archæology of the United States: Or, Sketches, Historical and ...

Samuel Foster Haven - United States - 1856 - 596 pages
...Institution should make special collections, particularly of objects to verify its own publications. Also a collection of instruments of research in all branches of experimental science. 3. With reference to the collection of books, other than those mentioned above, catalogues of all the...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1866 - 506 pages
...and a collection of objects of nature and of art. 3. These two plans are not incompatible with one another. 4. To carry out the plan before described,...above, catalogues of all the different libraries in theUnited States should be procured, in order that the valuable books first purchased may be such as...
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Congressional Serial Set

United States - 1867 - 1060 pages
...and a collection of objects of nature and of art. 3. These two plans are not incompatible with one another. 4. To carry out the plan before described,...research in all branches of experimental science. 1. With reference to the collection of books, other than those mentioned above, catalogues of all the...
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th ..., Volume 12

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1869 - 516 pages
...make special collections, particularly of objects to illustrate and verify its own publications. (i. Also, a collection of instruments of research in all...than those mentioned above, catalogues of all the diti'erent libraries in the United States ¿hould be procured, in order that the valuable books first...
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