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The Resource Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1858., (electronic resource)

Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1858., (electronic resource)

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Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1858.
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Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1858.
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Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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Cataloging source
Readex
Government publication
federal national government publication
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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United States
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  • 1825-1867
  • 1769-1832
  • 1825-1883
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  • Bland, R.E
  • Caswell, Alexis
  • Clemens, Brackenridge
  • Cooper, J.G
  • Cuvier, Georges
  • De Candolle, Adolphe
  • Dudley, Timothy
  • Duprez, M.F
  • Friedlander, Julius
  • Gardiner, R.H
  • Guest, W.E
  • Hare, Robert
  • Humphreys, A.A.,
  • LeConte, John L.
  • Loew, H.,
  • Lyon, Sidney S.,
  • Martins, C
  • Motschulsky, V
  • Muller, John
  • Naill, D.W
  • Osten-Sacken, C.R.,
  • Taylor, Alexander S
  • Smithsonian Institution
Series statement
  • United States congressional serial set;
  • Mis. doc. / 35th Congress, 2nd session. Senate
Series volume
  • serial set no. 993
  • no. 49
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  • Priestley, Joseph
  • United States
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Antiquities
  • Astronomy
  • Beetles
  • Birds
  • Botany
  • Butterflies
  • Charitable contributions
  • Discovery and exploration
  • Earthquakes
  • Electricity
  • Electromagnetism
  • Entomology
  • Federal aid to museums
  • Forests
  • Grasshoppers
  • Insects
  • Landscape architecture
  • Learned institutions and societies
  • Lightning
  • Management
  • Meteorological stations
  • Meteorology and weather forecasting
  • Models (Patents)
  • Museum acquisitions
  • Museums
  • Natural history collections
  • Observatories
  • Ornithology
  • Pest control
  • Physics
  • Public administration
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Rivers, creeks, streams, etc
  • Trees
  • Vegetables
  • Weights and measures
  • New Madrid Earthquakes (1811-1812)
  • Financial statements
  • Bermuda Islands
  • District of Columbia
  • Europe
  • Great Britain
  • Guatemala
  • Kennebec River (Maine)
  • Kentucky
  • Maine
  • New Madrid, Missouri
  • North America
  • Nova Scotia, Canada
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Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1858., (electronic resource)
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Report of the Secretary follows p. 12
  • List of meteorological stations and observers, p. 63
  • Report of the Executive Committee, p. 74
  • Journal of the proceedings of the Board of Regents, p. 78
  • Lectures on astronomy, by A. Caswell, precedes p. 86
  • Memoir of Priestley, by M. Cuvier, follows p. 137
  • Instructions for collecting Coleoptera, by John L. LeConte, p. 160
  • Instructions for collecting Diptera, by H. Loew, with additions by R. Ostensacken, p. 167
  • Instructions for collecting Lepidoptera, by Brackinbridge Clemens, p. 173
  • An account of the grasshoppers and locusts of America, by Alexander S. Taylor, p. 200
  • On the means of destroying the grasshopper, by V. Motschulsky, p. 214
  • Vegetable colonization of the British Isles, of Shetland, Faroe and Iceland, by C. Martins, p. 229
  • On the causes which limit vegetable species towards the north, in Europe and similar regions, by Adolphe De Candolle, p. 237
  • On the distribution of the forests and trees of North America with notes on its physical geography, by J.G. Cooper, p. 246
  • List of birds of Nova Scotia, p. 280
  • List of birds of Bermuda, by T. Bland, p. 286
  • Report on atmospheric electricity, by M.F. Duprez, p. 290
  • Report of recent progress in physics, by John Muller, follows p. 371
  • The earthquake of 1811 at New Madrid, Missouri, by Timothy Dudley, p. 421
  • Dispersion of a cloud by an electrical discharge, by D.W. Naill, p. 425
  • Communication from Dr. Robert Hare on a method of forming small weights, p. 426
  • Plan of a bibliography, by Julius Friedlander, p. 428
  • Account of antiquities from Kentucky, by S.S. Lyon, p. 430
  • Notes on barometer, rain and snow gages, &c., by R.H. Gardiner, p. 432
  • Snow gage, by W.E. Guest, p. 433
  • Observations on the opening and closing of Kennebec River, Maine, by R.H. Gardiner, p. 434
  • Record of earthquakes felt at the Collegiate Seminary of Guatemala in 1857 and 1858, by A. Canudas, follows, p. 436
  • Method of obtaining the amount of water in rivers, by A.A. Humphreys, p. 438
  • Table of contents follows p. 438
  • Index follows p. 440
Color
multicolored
Control code
NB00000033997
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
448 p.
Form of item
electronic
Governing access note
Access restricted to subscribing institutions
Other physical details
illustrations, maps, tables
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(Readex)1067CD320E60E498
Terms governing use
© 2007 by NewsBank, Inc. All rights reserved
Label
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1858., (electronic resource)
Publication
Note
  • Report of the Secretary follows p. 12
  • List of meteorological stations and observers, p. 63
  • Report of the Executive Committee, p. 74
  • Journal of the proceedings of the Board of Regents, p. 78
  • Lectures on astronomy, by A. Caswell, precedes p. 86
  • Memoir of Priestley, by M. Cuvier, follows p. 137
  • Instructions for collecting Coleoptera, by John L. LeConte, p. 160
  • Instructions for collecting Diptera, by H. Loew, with additions by R. Ostensacken, p. 167
  • Instructions for collecting Lepidoptera, by Brackinbridge Clemens, p. 173
  • An account of the grasshoppers and locusts of America, by Alexander S. Taylor, p. 200
  • On the means of destroying the grasshopper, by V. Motschulsky, p. 214
  • Vegetable colonization of the British Isles, of Shetland, Faroe and Iceland, by C. Martins, p. 229
  • On the causes which limit vegetable species towards the north, in Europe and similar regions, by Adolphe De Candolle, p. 237
  • On the distribution of the forests and trees of North America with notes on its physical geography, by J.G. Cooper, p. 246
  • List of birds of Nova Scotia, p. 280
  • List of birds of Bermuda, by T. Bland, p. 286
  • Report on atmospheric electricity, by M.F. Duprez, p. 290
  • Report of recent progress in physics, by John Muller, follows p. 371
  • The earthquake of 1811 at New Madrid, Missouri, by Timothy Dudley, p. 421
  • Dispersion of a cloud by an electrical discharge, by D.W. Naill, p. 425
  • Communication from Dr. Robert Hare on a method of forming small weights, p. 426
  • Plan of a bibliography, by Julius Friedlander, p. 428
  • Account of antiquities from Kentucky, by S.S. Lyon, p. 430
  • Notes on barometer, rain and snow gages, &c., by R.H. Gardiner, p. 432
  • Snow gage, by W.E. Guest, p. 433
  • Observations on the opening and closing of Kennebec River, Maine, by R.H. Gardiner, p. 434
  • Record of earthquakes felt at the Collegiate Seminary of Guatemala in 1857 and 1858, by A. Canudas, follows, p. 436
  • Method of obtaining the amount of water in rivers, by A.A. Humphreys, p. 438
  • Table of contents follows p. 438
  • Index follows p. 440
Color
multicolored
Control code
NB00000033997
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
448 p.
Form of item
electronic
Governing access note
Access restricted to subscribing institutions
Other physical details
illustrations, maps, tables
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(Readex)1067CD320E60E498
Terms governing use
© 2007 by NewsBank, Inc. All rights reserved

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