Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1881 |
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... societies are started , and very soon an application is made to the Smithsonian Institution for its publications ... society , so far as its existence and standing are concerned . The requests from individuals for publications ...
... societies are started , and very soon an application is made to the Smithsonian Institution for its publications ... society , so far as its existence and standing are concerned . The requests from individuals for publications ...
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... societies , public libraries , and other sources , and then from the collected mass making to his various contributors returns , at his own discretion , of what appeared to him a fair equivalent . Such a method of course presupposed a ...
... societies , public libraries , and other sources , and then from the collected mass making to his various contributors returns , at his own discretion , of what appeared to him a fair equivalent . Such a method of course presupposed a ...
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... societies , and the accessions to established scientific journals . Making due allow- ance for such fragmentary continuations , the whole number of complete volumes may be estimated at 6,000 titles ; of which by far the greater portion ...
... societies , and the accessions to established scientific journals . Making due allow- ance for such fragmentary continuations , the whole number of complete volumes may be estimated at 6,000 titles ; of which by far the greater portion ...
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... Society , February 23 , 1878. ( Printed in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal March 28 , 1878. ) 3. " Color - Blindness . " A lecture on color - blindness and its practical relations . ( Delivered April 11 , 1878 , before the Society ...
... Society , February 23 , 1878. ( Printed in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal March 28 , 1878. ) 3. " Color - Blindness . " A lecture on color - blindness and its practical relations . ( Delivered April 11 , 1878 , before the Society ...
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... Society and others . An inventory of his personal effects is presented , and an account of the likenesses of Mr. Smithson known to be in existence and in the pos- session of the Institution . Some attention is paid to a consideration of ...
... Society and others . An inventory of his personal effects is presented , and an account of the likenesses of Mr. Smithson known to be in existence and in the pos- session of the Institution . Some attention is paid to a consideration of ...
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