Excerpt from First Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to the Board of Regents: Giving a Programme of Organization, and an Account of the Operations During the Year; Presented December 8, 1847
II. By appropriating a portion qf the income, annually, to W objects of research, under the direction cf suitable persons.
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