The United States National Museum Annual Report for the Year Ended June 30, 1954 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The United States National Museum Annual Report for the Year Ended June 30, 1954 (Classic Reprint) written by United States National Museum and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The United States National Museum Annual Report for the Year Ended June 30, 1954 Limitations of space have forced the Museum to accept only a small portion of the valuable, often priceless, material offered the Nation only a few of the most significant landmarks in this onward march of science and technology. Even so, in the past half-century these public collections have grown so greatly in size and scientific impor tance that they have made the U. S. National Museum one of the world's principal museums, and they have become of such value to Science that specialists from all parts of the world visit Washington to consult them. An idea Of their magnitude and scope may be gained from the tabulation on page 13, which shows the distribution of the more than 35 million specimens that comprise them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.