Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1883 |
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Σελίδα 679 - Above this a gradual change is perceptible, the two styles overlapping, so that it is difficult to say where one begins and the other ends.
Σελίδα 181 - That for the purpose of carrying this act into effect, it shall be the duty of each of the Executive Departments of the United States to provide for itself and its subordinate offices the necessary envelopes: and in addition to the indorsement designating the Department in which they are to be used, the penalty for the unlawful use of these envelopes shall be stated thereon.
Σελίδα 182 - An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes...
Σελίδα 524 - INDEX MEDICUS.— A Monthly Classified Record of the Current Medical Literature of the World.
Σελίδα 193 - Catalogue of 1098 Standard Clock and Zodiacal Stars," prepared under the direction of Simon Newcomb.
Σελίδα 189 - It has been a prominent object of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, from a very early date, to enrich the annual report required of them by law with memoirs illustrating the more remarkable and important developments in physical and biological discovery, as well as showing the general character of the operations of the Institution; and...
Σελίδα viii - ... shall be laid out under the direction of a Joint Committee of Congress upon the Library, to consist of three members of the Senate and three members of the House of Representatives.
Σελίδα 184 - An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth...
Σελίδα 182 - That all the archives, records, and materials relating to the Indians of North America, collected by the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, shall be turned over to the Smithsonian Institution, that the work may be completed and prepared for publication under its direction...
Σελίδα 204 - ... mass, which before the change had the greatest angular momentum, permits the central portion to resume a planetary shape. The contraction and increase of rotation proceed continually until another portion is detached, and so on. There thus recur at intervals a series of epochs of instability or of abnormal change. Now tidal friction must diminish the rate of increase of rotation due to contraction, and therefore if tidal friction and contraction are at work together, the epochs of instability...