| United States - 1914 - 804 pages
...between learned institutions; the United States National Museum, the lawful place for the deposit of objects of art and of foreign and curious research, and all objects of natural history belonging to the United States; the National Gallery of Art, created in 1846 by the act establishing... | |
| William Healey Dall - Museum curators - 1915 - 534 pages
...Keeper of the Museum and with the consent of the Board employ assistants. Furthermore the act provides that "all objects of art and of foreign and curious...research, and all objects of natural history, plants, geological and mineralogical specimens belonging or hereafter to belong to the United States ... in... | |
| William Healey Dall - Museum curators - 1915 - 530 pages
...Keeper of the Museum and with the consent of the Board employ assistants. Furthermore the act provides that "all objects of art and of foreign and curious...research, and all objects of natural history, plants, geological and mineralogical specimens belonging or hereafter to belong to the United States ... in... | |
| Gustav Pollak - American essays - 1915 - 494 pages
...art and of foreign and curious research," of objects of natural history, and plants and geological specimens belonging or hereafter to belong to the...United States, which may be in the city of Washington. The new secretary, of course, sympathized entirely with the scientific party, who considered most of... | |
| William Healey Dall - Ornithologists - 1915 - 662 pages
..."all objects of art and of foreign and curious research, and all objects of natural history, plants, geological and mineralogical specimens belonging or hereafter to belong to the United States ... in whosoever custody they may be" should be delivered to the Institution. A library was also provided... | |
| Richard Rathbun - 1916 - 312 pages
...etc.; And also further, "That, in proportion as suitable arrangements can be made for their reception, all objects of art and of foreign and curious research,...United States, which may be in the city of Washington, in whosesoever custody the same may be, shall be delivered to such persons as may be authorized by... | |
| United States National Museum - Science - 1916 - 322 pages
...etc.; And also further, "That, in proportion as suitable arrangements can be made for their reception, all objects of art and of foreign and curious research,...United States, which may be in the city of Washington, in whosesoever custody the same may be, shall be delivered to such persons as may be authorized by... | |
| United States National Museum - Science - 1916 - 230 pages
...collections. The Congress which passed the act of foundation enumerated as within the scope of the Museum " all objects of art and of foreign and curious research...and geological and mineralogical specimens belonging to the United States," thus stamping the Museum at the very outset as one of the widest range and at... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1920 - 934 pages
...Smithsonian building. National Museum. — The Smithsonian Institution is the only lawful custodian of "all objects of art and of foreign and curious research,...to the United States, which may be in the city of Washington.5* Out of this provision in the fundamental act there grew the National Museum. See UNITED... | |
| United States National Museum - Science - 1918 - 200 pages
...collections. The Congress which passed the act of foundation enumerated as within the scope of the Museum " all objects of art and of foreign and curious research...and geological and mineralogical specimens belonging to the United States," thus stamping the Museum at the very outset as one of the widest, range and... | |
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