Report. Annual report of regents, year ending June 30, 1907 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Report. Annual report of regents, year ending June 30, 1907 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Report. Annual report of regents, year ending June 30, 1907 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1908
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1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
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19080101
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19081231
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Smithsonian Institution
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13
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1908
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lvii+726 p. [148] il. [79] pl. (incl. por. 38 p. of pl. maps, facsim.).
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([Publication 1824.])
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CONTENTS.—Proceedings of regents.—Report of executive committee.— Acts of Congress.—Report of secretary.—Steam turbine on land and at sea; by Charles A. Parsons.—Development of mechanical composition in printing; by A. Turpain.—Some facts and problems bearing on electric trunk-line operation; by Frank J. Sprague.—Recent contributions to electric wave telegraphy; by J. A. Fleming.—On properties and natures of various electric radiations; by W. H. Bragg.—Progress in electro-metallurgy; by John B. C. Kershaw.—Recent progress in color photography; by Thomas W. Sraillie.—Structure of Lippmann heliochromes; by S. R. Cajal.—Bronze in South America before arrival of Europeans; by Adrien de Mortillet.—Some opportunities for astronomical work with inexpensive apparatus; by George E. Dale.—Progress of science as illustrated by development of meteorology; by Cleveland Abbe.—Geology of the inner earth, igneous ores; by J. W. Gregory.—Salton Sea; by F. H. Newell.—Inland waterways; by George G. Chisholm.—Present position of paleozoic botany: by D. H. Scott.— Zoological gardens and establishments of Great Britain, Belgium, and Netherlands; by Gustave Loisel.—Systematic zoology, its progress and purpose: by Theodore Gill.—Genealogical history of marine mammals; by O. Abel.—Mediterranean peoples; by Theobald Fischer.—Prehistoric Japan; by E. Baelz.—Origin of Egyptian civilization; by Edouard Naville.—Fire piston; by Henry Balfour.—Origin of Canaanite alphabet; by Franz Prastorius.—Three Aramaic papyri from Elephantine. Egypt; by Eduard Sachau.—Problem of color vision; by John M. Dane.—Immunity in tuberculosis; by Simon Flexner.—Air of New York subway prior to 1006; by George A. Soper.—Ma reel in Berthelot; by Camilla Matignon.—Linnaean memorial address; by Edward L. Greene.
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