Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 |
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Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During ... United States National Museum Visualització completa - 1906 |
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Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During ... United States National Museum Visualització completa - 1890 |
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Alaska Aleš Hrdlička anthropology archeology assistant curator Bahama Bassler batrachians Biol birds Botanical Brazil Bryozoa Bureau of American Bureau of Fisheries cacti catalogue Charles Colls Columbia Company cotypes crustaceans Department of Agriculture described descriptions division eggs Ethnology exchange exhibition ferns fishes fossil genera genus gift Herbarium Hymenoptera Indian insects invertebrates June Kilpatrick larvæ lected Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition mammals marine Maryland material Maxon Mearns ment Mexico Miocene mollusks Natural History North paleobotany parasitic Philippine Islands plants collected plants from California plants from Mexico pottery Proc Prof Quar received reptiles shells skins Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Misc South species stone Texas text figs tion total number type specimens U. S. Army U. S. Geological Survey U. S. Nat U. S. National Museum University W. H. Dall W. L. Abbott Wash Washington William XLVII XVIII York City Zoological
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Pàgina 41 - Survey, completed studies on the birds obtained by Dr. WL Abbott in Kilimanjaro, East Africa, and has taken up other collections made by Doctor Abbott on islands in the China Sea and neighboring regions. The collections and opportunities for research offered by the division of birds were utilized by the Biological Survey, the committee on nomenclature of the Ornithologists Union, Dr. Jonathan Dwight, jr., of New York, and Dr. EA Mearns, US Army, the last mentioned giving much time to the identification...
Pàgina 1 - 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...
Pàgina 132 - RATHBUN, RICHARD. Report upon the condition and progress of the US National Museum during the year ending June 30, 1903.
Pàgina 63 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; in botany, Capt. John Donnell Smith, of Baltimore, Maryland ; in mineralogy, the Rev. LT Chamberlain, of New York City, and in paleobotany, Prof. Lester F. Ward, for many years associate curator of the collection of fossil plants. Dr. JN Rose has been advanced to associate curator in the division of plants, and Mr. WR Maxon to assistant curator. Mr. JH Painter was appointed aid in the same division, and Mr. Homer D. House served in a like capacity during five months of...
Pàgina 2 - That it is the intention of the act of Congress establishing the institution, and in accordance with the design of Mr. Smithson, as expressed in his will, that one of the principal modes of executing the act and the trust is the accumulation of collections of specimens and objects of natural history and of elegant art, and the gradual formation of a library of valuable works pertaining to all departments of human knowledge, to the end that a copious storehouse of materials of science, literature,...
Pàgina 1 - Washington, in whosesoever custody the same may be, shall be delivered to such persons as may be authorized by the board of regents to receive them, and shall be arranged in such order, and so classed, as best [to] facilitate the examination and study of them...
Pàgina 38 - George lles, of New York, who investigated the subject of survivals in invention. The collections in prehistoric archeology were extensively consulted by Dr. JW Fewkes, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, who has in preparation a report upon his recent explorations in the West Indian region. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, assistant curator in charge of the division of physical anthropology, conducted investigations on the weight of the brain in man and animals, the behavior of the brains of mammals in various...
Pàgina 4 - 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 4 - During the first period the main object of the Museum was scientific research; in the second, the establishment became a museum of record as well as of research, while in the third period has Ы-еп added the idea of public education.