Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian Institution, 1920 Vols. for 1847-1963/64 include the Institution's Report of the Secretary, also published separately. |
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Стр. 182 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Стр. 117 - ADVERTISEMENT. The object of the GENERAL APPENDIX to the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution is to furnish brief accounts of scientific discovery in particular directions; reports of investigations made by collaborators of the Institution; and memoirs of a general character or on special topics that are of interest or value to the numerous correspondents of the Institution.
Стр. 156 - I have divided the Treatise on Birds into four books: of "which the first treats of their flight by beating their wings ; the "second of flight without beating the wings, and with the help of "the wind ; the third of flight in general, such as that of birds, .bats, "fishes, animals and insects; the last of the mechanism of this "movement.
Стр. 13 - Institution, for the annual reports of the National Museum, with general appendixes, and for printing labels and blanks, and for the bulletins...
Стр. 98 - The Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. A Washington Society of 1816-1838, which established a Museum and Botanic Garden under Government Patronage
Стр. 462 - We see that the inferior animals, when the conditions of life are favourable, are subject to periodical fits of gladness, affecting them powerfully and standing out in vivid contrast to their ordinary temper. And we know what this feeling is — this periodic intense elation which even civilized man occasionally experiences when in perfect health, more especially when young. There are moments when he is mad with joy, when he cannot keep still, when his impulse is to sing and shout aloud and laugh...
Стр. 244 - Beaumont is the pioneer physiologist of this country, the first to make an important and enduring contribution to this science. His work remains a model of patient, persevering investigation, experiment and research, and the highest praise we can give him is to say that he lived up to and fulfilled the ideals with which he set out and which he expressed when he said : ' Truth, like beauty, when " unadorned, is adorned the most...
Стр. 457 - Sebright bantam a new and elegant plumage, an erect and peculiar carriage— so it appears that female birds in a state of nature, have by a long selection of the more attractive males, added to their beauty or other attractive qualities.