Report on the Progress and Condition of the U.S. National Museum for the Year Ending June 30 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - Science |
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Page 27 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 30 - Roine medal, and strikes in silver from a rejected die of the Roine medal. Many medalets struck during the Civil War or soon after that struggle and decorated with portraits of President Lincoln and other statesmen, are of special note. Of this class of material are many political campaign souvenirs recalling the history of the presidential issues of 1864. The Robert Hewitt collection is remarkable for the very wide range of subjects and types of numismatic material which it covers and constitutes...
Page 53 - Museum is officially connected were in the field during the fiscal year, and only one of them is known to be still active. Nor has any been organized during the year except a botanical expedition which is about to start as the year closes. This expedition was made possible by a cooperative arrangement between the New York Botanical Garden, the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture, and the National Museum, the latter's share consisting...
Page 7 - 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 164 - Union Check List of Birds, and, following that example, it has included the species and subspecies which the authors deem valid * and of certain occurrence in North America, north of the Rio Grande, and in Lower California, Mexico.
Page 9 - 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 15 - WAR ACTIVITIES. During the trying conditions that have prevailed in the United States since it entered the war, the National Museum has demonstrated its value as a national asset in many ways. Members of its staff of experts, its great collections, its laboratories, and all the information in its possession, have been placed unreservedly at the service of the executive departments and other Government agencies, and have been freely used by a number of them. Some of its exhibition halls have been...
Page 154 - ... it usually claims for its own more especially that which is old or ancient in this vast body of data. It is even called on to pick up the lost lines of the earlier written records, as in the shadowy beginnings of glyphic and phonetic writing, and restore them to history. It must recover the secrets of the commemorative monuments — the tombs, temples, and sculptures intended to...
Page 166 - Public Works of the Navy. Under the cognizance of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and the corps of Civil Engineers, U. S. Navy, Oct., 1917, pp.
Page 15 - The division of physical anthropology has furnished a large amount of information on racial questions, particularly relating to the Balkans, to the National Research Council, and the Army and Navy Intelligence Bureaus. In the conservation of food, the curator of the division of textiles, having charge of food and animal products, cooperated...