Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1893 |
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... Liquids and Gases , by William Ramsay 289 299 303 Present Problems in Evolution and Heredity , by H. F. Osborn . 313 Report on the Migration of Birds , by J. A. Palmén 375 The Empire of the Air , by L. P. Mouillard 397 Progress of ...
... Liquids and Gases , by William Ramsay 289 299 303 Present Problems in Evolution and Heredity , by H. F. Osborn . 313 Report on the Migration of Birds , by J. A. Palmén 375 The Empire of the Air , by L. P. Mouillard 397 Progress of ...
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... liquids : Fig . 1 . 300 Molecular Process in Magnetic In- Fig . 2 308 duction : Present Problems in Evolution and Fig . 1 . 257 Fig . 2 ... Heredity : 258 Fig . 1 Figs . 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 . 336 259 Figs . 2 , 3 312 Figs . 7 , 8 , 9 . 260 ...
... liquids : Fig . 1 . 300 Molecular Process in Magnetic In- Fig . 2 308 duction : Present Problems in Evolution and Fig . 1 . 257 Fig . 2 ... Heredity : 258 Fig . 1 Figs . 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 . 336 259 Figs . 2 , 3 312 Figs . 7 , 8 , 9 . 260 ...
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... liquid , but under those of short duration it behaves like a hard and brittle solid . Thus it is possible to slowly alter the shape of a lens while polishing , in any desired direc- tion . It was only after the practical recognition of ...
... liquid , but under those of short duration it behaves like a hard and brittle solid . Thus it is possible to slowly alter the shape of a lens while polishing , in any desired direc- tion . It was only after the practical recognition of ...
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... liquid en- velope was for a long period confined to certain districts . In those districts successive crusts were formed , which sunk through the liquid envelope to the solid nucleus and by their accumulation built up the continental ...
... liquid en- velope was for a long period confined to certain districts . In those districts successive crusts were formed , which sunk through the liquid envelope to the solid nucleus and by their accumulation built up the continental ...
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... liquid sphere the only differentiation of surface condition we can readily conceive is that between equatorial and polar regions , and if such differentiation were sufficient to cause or localize continental elevations , then these ...
... liquid sphere the only differentiation of surface condition we can readily conceive is that between equatorial and polar regions , and if such differentiation were sufficient to cause or localize continental elevations , then these ...
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Side 33 - ... shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States...
Side xlvii - That the facilities for research and illustration in the following and any other governmental collections now existing or hereafter to be established in the city of 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...
Side xlviii - Park, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia, and the other half from the treasury of the United...
Side xlv - KKSOLITTUIN [No. 2] to fill vacancies in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the vacancies in the Board of Begents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than members of Congress...
Side x - 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...
Side 3 - London, for the purpose of founding "at Washington an establishment under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Side 129 - I affirm that the geological record furnishes a mass of evidence which no arguments drawn from other departments of nature can explain away, and which, it seems to me, cannot be satisfactorily interpreted save with an allowance of time much beyond the narrow limits which recent physical speculation would concede.
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Side 80 - Gray, Asa. Plates prepared between the years 1849 and 1859, to accompany a Report on The Forest Trees of North America, by Asa Gray.
Side 617 - I HOLD every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.