Download or read book The Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences written by Richard Rathbun and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences written by Richard Rathbun and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences A Washington Society of 1816 1838 Which Established a Museum and Botanic Garden Under written by Richard Rathbun and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences written by Arthur Jackson Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Manuscripts Maps and Drawings in the British Museum Natural History written by British Museum (Natural History). Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin the Columbian Institute Museum the Promotion of Arts and Sciences a Washington Society of 1816 1838 Which Established written by Richard Rathbun and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bulletin the Columbian Institute Museum the Promotion of Arts and Sciences a Washington Society of 1816-1838, Which Established: A Museum and Botanic Garden Under Government Patronage In his "Genesis of the United States National Museum," Dr. George Brown Goode has given a vivid sketch of a very important epoch in the scientific history of this country, showing how a learned society of Washington, at one time possessing 1,600 members, markedly influenced the plan and organization of the Smithsonian Institution, and especially its museum feature. The National Institution, later changed to National Institute, was established on May 15, 1840, by the adoption of a constitution and a declaration of its objects, which were "to promote science and the useful arts, and to establish a national museum of natural history, etc." The founding of this society, as Dr. Goode explains, "was doubtless to a very great degree due to the stimulating and inspiring effects upon public opinion of the Smithsonian bequest." It acquired extensive collections of its own and for a short time also had custody of the Government collections, which were assembled and exhibited in a large hall in the Patent Office building, whence, in 1858 and 1862, they were transferred, in accordance with law, to the Smithsonian Institution. The plan of the National Institution, says Dr. Goode, "was conceived in a broad and liberal spirit; its membership was a strong one, including at the beginning about ninety representative men of Washington, Members of Congress, scientific men, clergymen and promient citizens, and as many more corresponding members, among whom were all the leading men of the country. Among its principal officers were the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, ex-President Adams, the Chief of Engineers of the Army, and other prominent officials. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Great United States Exploring Expedition of 1838 1842 written by William Ragan Stanton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expedition travelled to Antarctica, the South Pacific, the Atlantic and the coasts of what are now Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.
Download or read book Agriculture and Rural Connections in the Pacific written by Lei Guang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture and Rural Connections in the Pacific brings together key studies from across several disciplines to examine the history of trans-Pacific rural and agricultural connections and to show an agriculturally-oriented Pacific World in the making since the 1500s. Historical globalization is commonly understood as a process that is propelled by industry or commerce, yet the seeds of global integration - literally as well as metaphorically - were sown much earlier, when crops and plants dispersed, agricultural systems proliferated, and rural people migrated across oceans. One goal of this volume is to demonstrate that the historical processes of globalization contained an agrarian dimension in which sub-national and national spaces were shaped in part through the influence of forces that originated in distant lands. Social and economic trends emanating from outside local territories had large impacts on demographic change, choices of agrarian systems, and the cropping patterns in many domestic settings. A second goal is to encourage readers to abandon the traditional Euro-centric view of events that shaped the Pacific region. The modern history of the Pacific World was undoubtedly shaped by Western imperialism, colonialism, and European trade and migration, but the present volume seeks to balance the interpretation of those forces with an emphasis on the increasing intensity of trans-Pacific interactions through rural labor migration and agricultural production.
Download or read book Museums Journal written by Elijah Howarth and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Indexes to papers read before the Museums Association, 1890-1909. Comp. by Charles Madeley": v. 9, p. 427-452.
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Download or read book The Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences written by Chester G. Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bibliography of American Natural History The institutions which have contributed to the rise and progress of American natural history which were founded or organized between 1769 and 1844 written by Max Meisel and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitle; The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploring expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, palentology and zoology.
Download or read book Useful Objects written by Reed Gochberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Useful Objects examines the history of American museums during the nineteenth century through the eyes of visitors, writers, and collectors. Museums of this period included a wide range of objects, from botanical and zoological specimens to antiquarian artifacts and technological models. Intended to promote "useful knowledge," these collections generated broader discussions about how objects were selected, preserved, and classified. In guidebooks and periodicals, visitors described their experiences within museum galleries and marveled at the objects they encountered. In fiction, essays, and poems, writers embraced the imaginative possibilities represented by collections and proposed alternative systems of arrangement. These conversations interrogated many aspects of American culture, raising deep questions about how objects are interpreted--and who gets to decide their value. Combining literary criticism, the history of science, and museum studies, Useful Objects examines the dynamic and often fraught debates that emerged during a crucial period in the history of museums by drawing on a wide range of archival materials and accounts in fiction, guidebooks, and periodicals. As museums gradually transformed from encyclopedic cabinets to more specialized public institutions, many writers, including J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, William Wells Brown, Walt Whitman, and Henry David Thoreau, questioned who would have access to collections and the authority to interpret them. Throughout this period, they considered loss and preservation, raised concerns about the place of new ideas, and resisted increasingly fixed categories. Their reflections shaped broader debates about the scope and purpose of museums in American culture that continue to resonate today.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Trends in American Gardens written by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign Trends in American Gardens addresses the influence of foreign, designed landscapes on the development of their American counterparts. Including essays from an array of significant scholars in landscape studies, this collection examines topics ranging from the importation of Western and Eastern styles of design and theoretical literature to the adaptation of specific plant types. As the variety of topics and influences discussed demonstrates, the essence of American gardens defies simple definition. Examining the translation, imitation, adaptation, and naturalization of stylistic trends and horticultural specimens into American gardens, the book also dwells on the juxtaposition of the foreign and the native. The volume’s contributors consider the experiences both of immigrants, who contributed through their writing, planting, and design efforts to enhance the character of regional gardens, and of Americans, who traveled abroad and brought back with them a passion for naturalizing exotics for scientific as well as aesthetic reasons. The complexity of American gardens—their combination of the historic and the modern, and of foreign cultures and local values—is also their most distinctive characteristic.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
