The National Almanac and Annual Record for ...William Vincent McKean G. W. Childs, 1864 - Almanacs, American |
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... interest at this time , and because recent legislation had so far obliterated old boundaries as to require an entirely new statement of their existing lines , present areas , population , and condition , for public information . The ...
... interest at this time , and because recent legislation had so far obliterated old boundaries as to require an entirely new statement of their existing lines , present areas , population , and condition , for public information . The ...
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... interests of our country ; and that on Mortality and Sickness in the Armies of the United States , with its illustrative diagrams , is upon a subject of the deepest interest and importance . The Record of the Events of the War during ...
... interests of our country ; and that on Mortality and Sickness in the Armies of the United States , with its illustrative diagrams , is upon a subject of the deepest interest and importance . The Record of the Events of the War during ...
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... interest- ing phenomenon , by Professor Challis , of Cam- bridge ( Eng . ) , may be found in the January and February numbers of the London , Edinburgh , aud Dublin Philosophical Magazine . August Meteors . - On the nights of 9th and ...
... interest- ing phenomenon , by Professor Challis , of Cam- bridge ( Eng . ) , may be found in the January and February numbers of the London , Edinburgh , aud Dublin Philosophical Magazine . August Meteors . - On the nights of 9th and ...
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... interest - money should be " applied for the erection of an Astronomical Ob- servatory , and for the various objects incident to such an establishment , " Mr. Preston , of South Ca- rolina , the chairman of the Senate Committee ...
... interest - money should be " applied for the erection of an Astronomical Ob- servatory , and for the various objects incident to such an establishment , " Mr. Preston , of South Ca- rolina , the chairman of the Senate Committee ...
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... interest applied to the construction and maintenance of an Astro- nomical Observatory . The bill failed ; for , as Mr. Adams's biographer remarks , " there was no pur- pose on which the predominating party were more Axed than to prevent ...
... interest applied to the construction and maintenance of an Astro- nomical Observatory . The bill failed ; for , as Mr. Adams's biographer remarks , " there was no pur- pose on which the predominating party were more Axed than to prevent ...
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Page 268 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
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