Report on the Progress and Condition of the U.S. National Museum for the Year Ending June 30 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1920 - Science |
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Page 5 - ... were regarded as indispensable. Since 1902 a series of octavo volumes containing papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum, and known as the Contributions from the National Herbarium, has been published as bulletins.
Page 16 - Received in 1,198 separate accessions, they were classified and assigned as follows: Department of anthropology, 12,333; zoology, 442,383; botany, 40,357; geology and mineralogy, 4,750; paleontology, 26,050; textiles, woods, medicines, foods, and other miscellaneous animal and vegetable products, 884; mineral technology, 62 ; and National Gallery of Art, 26. As loans for exhibition, 3,096 articles were also obtained, mainly for the divisions of history and American archeology and the Gallery of Art....
Page 9 - That, in proportion as suitable arrangements can be made for their reception, all objects of art and of foreign and curious research, and all objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens, belonging or hereafter to belong, to the United States, which may be in the city of Washington...
Page 11 - The gallery of art, your committee think, should include both paintings and sculpture, as well as engravings and architectural designs ; and it is desirable to have in connexion with it one or more studios, in which young artists might copy without interruption, being admitted under such regulations as the board may prescribe. Your committee also think that as the collection of paintings and sculpture will probably accumulate slowly, the room destined for a gallery of art might properly and usefully...
Page 5 - SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith a report upon the present condition of the United States National Museum, and upon the work accomplished in its various departments during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910.
Page 160 - LIST OF ACCESSIONS. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION : About 7,000 specimens of Cambrian fossils (63702, deposit). Bureau of American Ethnology: 2 skeletons and 2 skulls found on the property of the Roxana Petroleum Co. of Oklahoma, South Wood River, 111., and presented to the Bureau (62630) ; 12 prehistoric pottery heads found in Huaxtec mounds, and presented to Dr.
Page 139 - Joint resolution declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial German Government and the Government and the people of the United States and making provision to prosecute the same. Whereas the Imperial German Government has committed repeated acts of war against the Government and the people of the United States...
Page 41 - Notes on the coral reefs of the Island of Itaparica, Bahia, and of Parahyba do Norte. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, for 1S78, vol.
Page 13 - The Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the United States National Museum.
Page 40 - The United States National Museum. An Account of the Buildings occupied by the National Collections," that appeared in the annual report of the US National Museum for 1903.