Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1848 Vols for 1849-1963/64 include "General appendix to the Smithsonian report" (varies slightly) |
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2 ページ - Each memoir presented to the institution to be submitted for examination to a commission of persons of reputation for learning in the branch to which the memoir pertains, and to be accepted for publication only in case the report of this commission is favorable.
30 ページ - On the plan proposed for the library, it seems to me that the first thing to be done is to make arrangements for obtaining catalogues, printed or in manuscript, of the principal libraries of the United States; to examine these libraries, as far as can be done personally, in order to know their general character, the statistics of their increase...
2 ページ - '2. Appropriation in different years to different objects; so that in course of time each branch of knowledge may receive a share.
2 ページ - No memoir, on subjects of physical science, to be accepted for publication, which does not furnish a positive addition to human knowledge, resting on original research ; and all unverified speculations to be rejected. 4. Each memoir presented to the institution to be submitted for examination to a commission of...
14 ページ - Much popular interest may be awakened in favor of the institution at "Washington by throwing the rooms of the building open on stated evenings durings the session of Congress for literary and scientific assemblies, after the manner of the weekly meetings of the Royal Institution in London. At these meetings, without the formality of a regular lecture, new truths in science may be illustrated and new objects of art exhibited.
5 ページ - Also catalogues of memoirs, and of books in foreign libraries, and other materials, should be collected for rendering the institution a centre of bibliographical knowledge, whence the student may be directed to any work which he may require.
1 ページ - To DIFFUSE KNOWLEDGE. It is proposed— 1. To publish a series of periodical reports on the progress of the different branches of knowledge ; and, 2. To publish occasionally separate treatises on subjects of general interest.