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Excerpt from The Smithsonian InstitutionThe present Series represents the only departure from this rule. I wish to emphasize that it is an exception and that the traditional policy of free distribution of the Smithsonian's regular publications will in no wise be changed.The Smithsonian Scientific Series takes its place in the field in which the Institution had hitherto been represented almost solely by the Annual Reports. It is intended to enl...

Excerpt from The Smithsonian InstitutionThe present Series represents the only departure from this rule. I wish to emphasize that it is an exception and that the traditional policy of free distribution of the Smithsonian's regular publications will in no wise be changed.The Smithsonian Scientific Series takes its place in the field in which the Institution had hitherto been represented almost solely by the Annual Reports. It is intended to enl...

Although the Smithsonian Institution has grown to be over a hundred years old, no full length account of its various collections and fascinating activities had ever been written before Mr. True put them down here in 1950. Founded through a generous bequest by a lonely Englishman who had never visited this country, The Smithsonian, often identified with its headquarters in the quaint Norman castle on the Mall in Washington D.C., also includes t...

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