Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906
 

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Pàgina 2 - And all collections of rocks, minerals, soils, fossils, and objects of natural history, archieology, and ethnology, made by the Coast and Interior Survey, the Geological Survey, or by any other parties for the Government of the United States, when no longer needed for investigations in progress, shall be deposited in the National Museum.
Pàgina 1 - Institution was passed, it was provided that, "as suitable arrangements could be made for their reception, all objects of art and of foreign and curious research, and all objects of natural history, plants, geological and mineralogical specimens, belonging or hereafter to belong to the United States...
Pàgina 4 - ... their trustworthiness as custodians. It is an educational museum, through its policy of illustrating by specimens every kind of natural object and every manifestation of human thought and activity, of displaying descriptive labels adapted to the popular mind, and of distributing its publications and its named series of duplicates.
Pàgina 63 - ... helminthological collections. The appointment in 1903-4 of Mr. CA McKnew as aid in the division of fishes, and Mr. EJ Horgan as aid in the section of birds' eggs, failed to receive mention in the last report. Mr. Charles Schuchert, assistant curator of stratigraphic paleontology, resigned during the year to accept the position of professor of paleontology in Yale University, and was succeeded by Dr. Ray S. Bassler, of the US Geological Survey. Mr. WH Newhall, aid in the division of systematic...
Pàgina 132 - RATHBUN, RICHARD. Report upon the condition and progress of the US National Museum during the year ending June 30, 1903.
Pàgina 1 - ... new specimens in natural history, geology, or mineralogy may be obtained for the museum of the institution, by exchanges of duplicate specimens belonging to the institution, (which they are hereby authorized to make,) or by donation, which they may receive, or otherwise, cause such new specimens to be also appropriately classed and arranged.
Pàgina 4 - ... the idea of public education. The three ideas, record, research, and education, cooperative and mutually helpful as they are, are essential to the development of every great museum. The National Museum endeavors to promote them all.
Pàgina 125 - Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the US Fish Commission steamer Albatross, during 1891, Lieut.
Pàgina 1 - ... all objects of art and of foreign and curious research, and all objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens, belonging...
Pàgina 121 - April 18, 1905, pp. 127-132. Five new species from Woods Hole, Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay; the types of 3 species are in the US National Museum, and the types of the other two will probably be placed in the Museum. North American parasitic copepods belonging to the family Caligidse. Part I.— The Caliginse.

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