A Memorial of George Brown Goode: Together with a Selection of His Papers on Museums and on the History of Science in America, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1901 - 515 pages |
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Academy AGRICULTURAL Alexander Dallas Bache American Philosophical Society appointed appropriation archæology arrangement Association bequest botanical building Cabinet Cabinet of Curiosities century character collections College Colonel Abert Congress connection curator Department deposited devoted Doctor duty England establishment Europe exhibition exploring expedition Exploring Squadron Fish Commission Fisheries Frémont geological GEORGE BROWN Goode's Government hall Hans Sloane Historical Society honor idea illustrate important Insti interest islands Jefferson John John Quincy Adams knowledge labels labors letter Levi Woodbury Linnæus London material Menhaden ment museum administration NAT MUS 97 National Institute natural history naturalists Navy objects observations observatory organization papers Paris Patent Office persons Philadelphia Philosophical Society Poinsett present preservation President printed Professor Baird Professor Henry promotion published received referred Regents remarks Secretary Senator Smithson Smithsonian Institution species specimens tion U. S. National Museum United University Virginia Washington York zoology
Popular passages
Page 378 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 343 - ... different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States and Territories.
Page 324 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 342 - If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs...
Page 343 - An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several states, under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto.
Page 341 - That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to 30,000 acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of 1860: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act.
Page 93 - I mean stock to remain in this country, to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Page 278 - American Revolution with those of the late American war. The American war is over: but this is far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the great drama is closed.
Page 344 - That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said stations that a portion of the preceding annual appropriation remains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual appropriation to such station, in order that the amount of money appropriated to any station shall not exceed the amount actually and necessarily required for its maintenance and support.
Page 396 - Mid the wild wastes of Louisianian bogs; Or, where Ohio rolls his turbid stream, Dig for huge bones, thy glory and thy theme.