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" To carry out the plan before described, a library will be required, consisting. 1st, of a complete collection of the transactions and proceedings of all the learned societies in the world; 2d, of the more important current periodical publications, and... "
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution - Page 9
by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1860
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1890 - 1050 pages
...and a collection of objects of nature and of art, R. These two plans are not incompatible with one another. 4. To carry out the plan before described, a library will be required, consisting, first, of a complete collection of the transactions aud proceedings of all the learned societies in...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1913 - 884 pages
...in the following terms : To carry out the plan before described, a library will be required, first, of a complete collection of the transactions and proceedings of all the learned socleties In the world; second, of the more Important current periodical publications and other works...
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A History of the Book in America: Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840-1880

Scott E. Casper, Jeffrey D. Groves, Stephen W. Nissenbaum, Michael P. Winship, David D. Hall - 2009 - 560 pages
...Institution, physicist Joseph Henry, presented to the regents in 1847, and the Smithsonian began to form a "complete collection of the transactions and proceedings of all the learned societies in the world."31 The first librarian of the Smithsonian, Charles Coffin Jewett, unable to gather all that...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

1863 - 448 pages
...part to be appropriated to increase and diffuse knowledge by means of publications and researehes, agreeably to the scheme before given. The other part...described, a library will be required, consisting, first, of a complete collection of 'lie transactions and proceedings of all the learned societies in...
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The Seat of Government of the United States: A Review of the Discussions ...

Viator - 1854 - 154 pages
...the Secretary, and adopted by the Board, December 13, 1847, from which we extract some leading views: "A library will be required, consisting, 1st, of a...works necessary in preparing the periodical reports. "The institution should make special collections, particularly of objects to illustrate and verify...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Volume 5

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1854 - 286 pages
...literary and scientific societies and establishments; and provided for a museum and library, to consist of a complete collection of the transactions and proceedings of all the learned societies in the world, of the more important current periodical publications and of other works necessary to scientific investigations,...
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Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York, Volume 28

1896 - 514 pages
...accurate surveys of mounds. And, as a collateral, the formation of a library was contemplated, to consist of a complete collection of the transactions and proceedings of all the learned societies of the world, and of the more important current periodical publications; also, catalogues of memoirs...
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