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... Professor WHITNEY . Yes . ( The witness was here sworn by the Chairman . ) The CHAIRMAN . How long has your bureau been organized ? Professor WHITNEY . Since 1894 . The CHAIRMAN . That is some 12 years . How long have you been at the ...
... Professor WHITNEY . Yes . ( The witness was here sworn by the Chairman . ) The CHAIRMAN . How long has your bureau been organized ? Professor WHITNEY . Since 1894 . The CHAIRMAN . That is some 12 years . How long have you been at the ...
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... Professor WHITNEY . Yes ; those were the conditions I found in 1894 when the work was organized in the Department of Agriculture . The CHAIRMAN . Can you give a broad differentiation between the scope of the work you were doing in 1894 ...
... Professor WHITNEY . Yes ; those were the conditions I found in 1894 when the work was organized in the Department of Agriculture . The CHAIRMAN . Can you give a broad differentiation between the scope of the work you were doing in 1894 ...
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... Whitney . ) The CHAIRMAN . In that respect have you been in advance of the general scientific world , or has the advance been contemporaneous throughout the world on those subjects ? Professor WHITNEY . The advance has been ...
... Whitney . ) The CHAIRMAN . In that respect have you been in advance of the general scientific world , or has the advance been contemporaneous throughout the world on those subjects ? Professor WHITNEY . The advance has been ...
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... Whitney , Zappone . ) The CHAIRMAN . That limits it . Your suggestion was limited to these elements ? Professor WHITNEY . Yes . The CHAIRMAN . Why was it not feasible to continue the work of that bureau or division under the form of a ...
... Whitney , Zappone . ) The CHAIRMAN . That limits it . Your suggestion was limited to these elements ? Professor WHITNEY . Yes . The CHAIRMAN . Why was it not feasible to continue the work of that bureau or division under the form of a ...
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... Whitney . ) organization in Washington than we would do with a smaller ap- propriation . The CHAIRMAN . That could be predicated upon both a division or- ganization and a bureau ... Whitney . ) Professor WHITNEY . I BUREAU OF SOILS . 321.
... Whitney . ) organization in Washington than we would do with a smaller ap- propriation . The CHAIRMAN . That could be predicated upon both a division or- ganization and a bureau ... Whitney . ) Professor WHITNEY . I BUREAU OF SOILS . 321.
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Page 111 - All purchases and contracts for supplies or services, in any of the departments of the Government, except for personal services, shall be made by advertising a sufficient time previously for proposals respecting the same, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the articles, or performance of the service.
Page 867 - States is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments...
Page 113 - Such proposals shall be opened in the usual way and schedules thereof duly prepared and, together with the statement of the proposed action of each Department and Government establishment thereon, shall be submitted to a board consisting of one of the Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury and Interior Departments and one of the Assistant PostmastersGeneral...
Page 538 - That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with...
Page 741 - February 1, 1905, the forest reserves were transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture and have since been known as the National Forests, administered by the Forest Service.
Page 539 - Agriculture to furnish forms, as far as practicable, for the tabulation of results of investigation or experiments; to indicate, from time to time, such lines of inquiry as to him shall seem most important...
Page 816 - ... by posting a copy of such plat, together with a notice of the time and place of offering proof, in a conspicuous place on the land embraced in such plat during the period prescribed by law for the publication of his notice of intention to offer proof, and that a...
Page 68 - Senate document room, one hundred and fifty copies; to the office of the Secretary of the Senate, ten copies; to the House document room...
Page 306 - by the Senate and. House of Representatives of the United Statet of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Parole Commission Act".
Page 40 - House to which they are delivered; and the remainder of all documents thus resulting shall be turned over to the superintendent of documents, to be distributed by him, first, to public and school libraries for the purpose of completing broken sets; second, to public and school libraries that have not been supplied with any...