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Page 12 - CHILDREN'S BUREAU. The act establishing the bureau provides that it shall investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents, and diseases of children, employment, and legislation affecting children in the several States and Territories.
Page 23 - Washington for the promotion of knowledge shall be accessible, under such rules and restrictions as the officers in charge of each collection may prescribe, subject to such authority as is now or may hereafter be permitted by law, to the scientific investigators and to students of any institution of higher education now incorporated or hereafter to be incorporated under the laws of Congress or of the District of Columbia, to wit: One.
Page 56 - That facilities for study and research in the government departments, the Library of Congress, the National Museum, the Zoological Park, the bureau of ethnology, the fish commission, the Botanic Gardens, and similar institutions hereafter established shall be afforded to scientific investigators and to duly qualified individuals, students, and graduates of institutions of learning in the several states and territories, as well as in the District of Columbia, under such rules and restrictions as the...
Page 48 - I bequeath the whole of my property 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 15 - States," signed by President John Adams on April 24, 1800, a sum of $5,000 was appropriated "for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress at the said city of Washington, and for fitting up a suitable apartment for containing them." The President of the United States...
Page 55 - Included in this material are: (1) A card catalogue of more than 50,000 deaf children admitted into special schools for the deaf in the United States during the 19th century (1817-1900), with full details concerning them taken from the private records of the schools. (2) Voluminous manuscripts containing authentic information concerning 4,471 marriages of persons deaf from childhood (deaf and dumb), supplied by the families themselves, with details concerning the parents and other ancestors, and...
Page 55 - ... into special schools in the United States during the nineteenth century; manuscripts containing authentic information concerning 4,471 marriages of persons deaf from childhood, and the special schedules of the deaf used by the Census Office in 1900 containing detailed information about 89,271 persons returned as deaf or deaf and dumb in the twelfth census of the United States.
Page 14 - Board, which is composed of the Secretary of State of the United States and the diplomatic representatives in Washington of the other American Governments.
Page 19 - to prepare the junior officers of the Corps of Engineers for the active duties of their arm and corps; to make researches into such branches of science as relate to the duties of the Corps of Engineers; to disseminate information so obtained; to make such experiments and recommendations and to give such instruction as may be necessary for the engineering work of the Army.
Page 17 - State papers — Continental Congress, House of Representatives; colonial documentary history — Records of Virginia Company; Spanish papers of New Mexico and Florida; Philippine and Guam documents; scientific — Maury papers; Mexican history — Yturbide papers; Inquisition papers, 1759; literary — Louise Chandler Moulton collection of letters.