Annual report of regents for year ending June 30, 1906 [with report of acting secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Annual report of regents for year ending June 30, 1906 [with report of acting secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Annual report of regents for year ending June 30, 1906 [with report of acting secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
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1907
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1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
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19070101
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19071231
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Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
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1907
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li+546 p. [25] il. [41] pl. (incl. 2S p. of pl. por. maps).
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([Publication 1742.])
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CONTENTS.—Proceedings of regents.—Report of Executive Committee.—Acts of Congress.—Report of acting secretary.—Smithsonian Institution.—Modern theories of electricity and matter; by Madame [Marie] Curie.—Radioactivity; by F'ranz Himstedt.—Recent advances in wireless telegraphy; by Chevalier G. Marconi.—Revisions of theory of electrolysis; by Henry S. Carhart.—Recent progress in astronomical research; by C. G. Abbot.—Astronomy on Mont Blanc; by H. Radau.— Problem of metalliferous veins; by James Purman Kemp.—Iron-ore re serves; by Charles Kenneth Leith.—Geology of diamond and carbonado washings of Bahia, Brazil, by Orville A. Derby; translated by J. C. Branner.—Eruption of Vesuvius in Apr. 1906; by A. Lacroix.—To north magnetic pole and through Northwest Passage; by Roald Amundsen.—Iceland, its history and inhabitants; by Jon Srefausson.—Recently discovered tertiary vertebrata of Egypt; by C. W. Andrews.— Polyembryony and determination of sex, resume" of observations of P. Marchal [with bibliography]; by E. Bugnion.—Contribution to morphology of mammoth, Elephas primigenius Blumenbach, with explanation of my attempt at restoration; by E. Pfizenmayer.—Heredity; by L. Cugnot.—Bison of the Caucausus; by A. Yermoloff.—Founding of colonies by Atta sexdens; by Jakob Huber.—Quaternary human remains in central Europe; by Hugues Obermaier.—Origin of Slavs; by— Zaborowski.—Scalping in America; by Georg Friederici.—Zoology and medicine; by Raphael Blanchard.—Role of chemistry in paintings; by Eugene Lemaire.—Oils, varnishes, and mediums used in painting of pictures; by A. P. Laurie.—National reclamation of arid lands; by C. J. Blanchard.—International science; by Arthur Schuster.—Samuel Pierpont Langley; by Cyrus Adler.
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