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" That, so soon as the Board of Regents sh'all have selected the said site, they shall cause to be erected a suitable building, of plain and durable materials and structure, without unnecessary ornament, and of sufficient size, and with suitable rooms,... "
Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress, 2nd Session - Page 484
by United States. Congress. Senate - 1855
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Picture of Washington and Its Vicinity, for 1850, ...: Also, the Washington ...

William Quereau Force - Washington (D.C.) - 1850 - 292 pages
...plain and durable materials, WASHINGTON. and of sufficient size, and with suitable rooms or halls for the reception and arrangement, upon a liberal scale,...including a geological and mineralogical cabinet, also a laboratory, a library, a gallery of art and the necessary lecture rooms. The whole to be finished in...
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Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents

United States. Patent Office - Patents - 1850 - 818 pages
...Institution, provide for the " erection of a suitable building for th.e reception and arrangement, up»na liberal scale, of objects of natural history, including a geological and mineralogical cabinet." * In the first annual Report of the board of regents, it will be seen that a building was commenced...
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THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES

JOSEPH B. VARNUM - 1854 - 130 pages
...structure, without unnecessary ornament, and of sufficient size, and with suitable rooms or halls for the reception and arrangement, upon a liberal scale,...a gallery of art, and the necessary lecture rooms. (§§ 4 and 5.) In proportion as suitable arrangements can be made for their reception, all objects...
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The North American Review, Volume 79

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 566 pages
...structure, without unnecessary ornament, and of sufficient size, and with suitable rooms, or halls, for the reception and arrangement, upon a liberal scale,...laboratory, a library, a gallery of art, and the necessary lecture-rooms." The Regents were authorized to contract for the completion of this building, described...
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The North American Review, Volume 79

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 566 pages
...structure, without unnecessary ornament, and of sufficient size, and with suitable rooms, or halls, for the reception and arrangement, upon a liberal scale,...objects of natural history, including a geological and minerulogical cabinet ; also a chemical laboratory, a library, a gallery of art, and the necessary...
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Congressional Serial Set, Issue 705

United States - 1854 - 656 pages
...structure, without unnecessary ornament, and of sufficient size, and with suitable rooms, or halls, for the reception and arrangement, upon a liberal scale,...objects of natural history, including a geological atid mincralogical cabinet; also a chemical laboratory, a library, a gallery of art, and the necessary...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1854 - 284 pages
...terms. So, too, " to erect a suitable building of sufficient size, with suitable rooms or halls for the reception and arrangement, upon a liberal scale, of objects of natural history, geological, mineralogical, and botanical specimens, classed and arranged so as to facilitate the study...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 21

1855 - 804 pages
...The act directs that the Regents shall cause to be erected a suitable building, of efficient size for the reception and arrangement, upon a liberal scale,...a gallery of art and the necessary lecture rooms. 5. And finally, it is enacted that " of any moneys which have accrued, or shall hereafter accrue, as...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

Geology - 1855 - 484 pages
...required to cause a building to be erected of sufficient size, and with suitable rooms or halls, for the reception and arrangement, upon a liberal scale,...laboratory, a library, a gallery of art, and the necessary lecture-rooms. It is evident that Congress intended by these provisions that the funds of the Institution...
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Speeches and Addresses [1839-1854]

Henry Washington Hilliard - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1855 - 510 pages
...erected was to meet the provisions of the act, which required it to contain suitable rooms or halls for the reception and arrangement, upon a liberal scale,...laboratory, a library, a gallery of art, and the necessary lecture-rooms. Another section provides that, in proportion as suitable arrangements can be made for...
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