Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1903 |
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Page xl - For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supph", sewerage and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals...
Page vi - Washington, during the time for which they shall hold their respective offices ; three members of the Senate, and three members of the House of Representatives, together with six other persons, other than members of Congress, two of whom shall be...
Page xviii - for continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $180,000, of which sum $5,500 may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum, and all other necessary incidental expenses" (Sundry civil act, March 3, 1901 ) $180, 000.
Page lii - ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY: For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, printing and publishing results of researches, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, repairs and alterations of buildings and miscellaneous expenses, fifteen thousand dollars 15, 000.
Page 196 - New experiments and observations touching cold, or, An experimental history of cold, begun.
Page 20 - for the advancement of science and the instruction and recreation of the people.
Page 195 - For heat and cold are nature's two hands, whereby she chiefly worketh ; and heat we have in readiness, in respect of the fire ; but for cold we must stay till it cometh, or seek it in deep caves, or high mountains : and when all is done, we cannot obtain it in any great degree : for furnaces of fire are far hotter than a summer's sun ; but vaults or hills are not much colder than a winter's frost.
Page 35 - for continuing researches relating to the American Indians under the; direction of the Smithsonian Institution,
Page 109 - ADVERTISEMENT. The object of the GENERAL APPENDIX to the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution is to furnish brief accounts of scientific discovery in particular directions; reports of investigations made by collaborators of the Institution; and memoirs of a general character or on special topics that are of interest or value to the numerous correspondents of the Institution.
Page 362 - ... attacking and altering the established order of things, perpetually falling away from respect for what the past has given us. It sees the world as one great workshop, and the present is no more than material for the future, for the thing that is yet destined to be. It is in the active mood of thought, while the former is in the passive; it is the mind of youth, it is the mind more manifest among the western nations, while the former is the mind of age, the mind of the oriental.