Annual of the National Academy of Sciences for 1863/64-1866

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Страница 6 - That the National Academy of Sciences shall consist of not more than fifty ordinary members, and the said corporation hereby constituted shall have power to make its own organization, including its constitution, bylaws, and rules and regulations...
Страница 6 - That the National Academy of Sciences shall hold an annual meeting at such place in the United States as may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may be made for the purpose, bu£ the Academy shall receive no compensation whatever for any services...
Страница 35 - Resolved by the National Academy of Sciences, That in the opinion of this Academy the volumes entitled 'Sailing Directions,' heretofore issued to navigators from the Naval Observatory, and the 'Wind and Current Charts...
Страница 6 - ... make its own organization, including its constitution, by-laws, and rules and regulations; to fill all vacancies created by death, resignation, or otherwise; to provide for the election of foreign and domestic members, the division into classes, and all other matters needful or usual in such institution, and to report the same to Congress.
Страница 17 - The names of the members present at each daily meeting shall be recorded in the minutes, and the members present at any meeting shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. SEC. 3. Scientific meetings of the Academy, unless otherwise ordered by a majority of the members present, shall be open to the public; those for the transaction of business, closed.
Страница 78 - Washington, they obtained a promise from Mr. BANCROFT, then Secretary of the Navy, that his appointment should immediately be made out for a vacancy in the corps of Professors of Mathematics in the Navy. He was commissioned 1845, May 7, and immediately assigned to duty at the Washington Observatory, of which he continued an officer during the remainder of his life. He was elected a member of the National Institute of Washington, 1845, January 14 ; of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences,...
Страница 36 - That the records of meteorological phenomena and of other important facts connected with terrestrial physics, which, under the direction of the Navy Department, have been accumulated at the Observatory, are capable of being turned to valuable account, and that it is eminently desirable that such information should continue to be collected and subjected to careful discussion.
Страница 11 - I wanted the savants ... to see that amid the fire and blood of the most gigantic civil war in the annals of nations, the statesmen and people of the United States, in the calm confidence of assured power, are fostering the elevating, purifying, and consolidating institutions of religion and benevolence, literature, art, and...
Страница 50 - Congress to the importance of a uniform system and a uniform nomenclature of weights and measures, and coins to the commerce of the world in which the United States already so largely shares. The wisest of our statesmen have regarded the attainment of this end so desirable in itself as by no means impossible. The combination of the decimal system with appropriate denominations in a scheme of weights, measures, and coins for the international uses of commerce, leaving, if need be, the separate systems...
Страница 50 - The Secretary desires to avail himself of this opportunity to invite the attention of Congress to the importance of a uniform system and a uniform nomenclature of weights and measures, and coins to the commerce of the world, in which the United States already so largely shares. The wisest of our statesmen have regarded the attainment of this end, so desirable in itself, as by no means impossible. The combination of the decimal system with appropriate denominations in...

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