| 1900 - 484 pages
...required to hold an annual meeting at such place in the United States as might be designated, and, whenever called upon by any department of the Government,...subject of science or art." The actual expense of the work performed was to be paid by the Government, but the Academy was to receive no compensation... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1867 - 832 pages
...United States, and consists of a body of not more than fifty scientific men, whoso chief duty it is, whenever called upon by any department of the Government,...experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art." This Committee included all the most notable men of science in America who had given special attention... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1873 - 486 pages
...Congress incorporated an association, under the nameof theNational Academy of Sciences, which should investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art on which information might be required by any department of Government. Though this society was in... | |
| National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Science - 1884 - 514 pages
...may be designated, and the academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon...investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paiil from appropriations which may be made for the purpose, but the academy shall receive no compensation... | |
| National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Science - 1888 - 840 pages
...may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any Department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expend of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations... | |
| National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Science - 1890 - 682 pages
...may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any Department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense or such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be pnid from appropriations which... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1892 - 552 pages
...charter provides that "the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art; the actual expenses of such investigations, examinations, experiments and reports to be paid from appropriations... | |
| John Franklin Jameson - United States - 1894 - 794 pages
...the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1807. The National Academy of Sciences was founded in 1863, to "investigate, examine, experiment and report upon any subject of science or art," whenever called upon by any department of the national government. Of the latter class, a few dozen... | |
| United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - Presidents - 1897 - 712 pages
...incorporation that "the academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investígate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of...examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from а]н propriations which may be made for the purpose; but the academy shall receive no compensation... | |
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