Bulletin of the United States National MuseumSmithsonian Institution Press, 1917 |
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Page 67 - States : and also to make, have, and use, a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew, at their pleasure: and also to ordain, establish, and put in execution...
Page 47 - ... exploring expedition now in the South Seas, by the authority, and at the expense of the United States, or otherwise, a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars. — US Statutes at large, v. 5, p. 406-407. March 3, 1841. 26. cong., 2. sess. Ch. 34. For defraying the expense of transporting to the city of Washington and arranging and preserving the collections made by the exploring expedition, five thousand dollars. — US Statutes at large, v. 5, p. 420. August 4, 1842. 27. cong., 2. sess. Ch. 121....
Page 12 - ... is chemistry which explains the phenomena of vegetation, the growth, the maturation, and the death of plants; and to chemistry we must have recourse to remedy the diseases to which they are subject. * * * On taking a retrospect of the importance of this association, I cannot refrain from indulging the pleasing hope, that the members of our national government, to whom has been confided the guardianship of the District of Columbia, will extend their fostering care to this establishment, and, If...
Page 59 - ... that, situated as we are in this western hemisphere, more than three thousand miles from any fixed or known meridian, it would be proper, in a national point of view, to establish a first meridian for ourselves; and that measures should be taken for the eventual establishment of such a meridian in the United States. " In examining the maps and charts of the United States, and the particular states, or their...
Page 63 - To invite communications on agricultural subjects, on the management of stock, their diseases and the remedies. Art. 6. To form a topographical and statistical history of the different districts of the United States, noticing particularly the number and extent of streams, how far navigable; agricultural products, the imports and exports; the value of lands; the climate, the state of the thermometer and barometer; the diseases which prevail during the different seasons; the state of the arts and manufactures;...
Page 36 - That there be granted, during the pleasure of Congress, to the Columbian Institute for the promotion of Arts and Sciences, the use and Improvement of a tract of public land in the city of Washington, not exceeding five acres, to be located under the direction of the President of the United States, for the purpose of enabling the said Columbian Institute to effect the object of their incorporation...
Page 4 - I most sincerely hope that all the objects which engaged the attention of Thomas Law, Esq., and myself, in 1816, in establishing the Columbian Institute, will now meet the approbation and support of the Government, and the scientific men of the District of Columbia.