Reports. Annual report of regents, year ending June 30, 1908 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Reports. Annual report of regents, year ending June 30, 1908 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Reports. Annual report of regents, year ending June 30, 1908 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1909
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1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
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19090101
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19091231
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Smithsonian Institution
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13
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1909
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x+801 p. il. 2 por. 17 pl. 76 p. of pl. 6 maps.
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([Publication 1917.])
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([Publication 1917.]) * Cloth, $1.25; * For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. paper, $1.00.
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CONTENTS.—Report of secretary.—Report of executive committee.— Proceedings of regents.—Acts of Congress.—Present status of military aeronautics; by George O. Squier.—Aviation in France in 1908; by Pierre-Roger Jourdain.—Wireless telephony; by R. A. Fessenden.— Phototelegraphy; by Henri Armagnat.—Gramophone and mechanical recording and reproduction of musical sounds; by. Lovell N. Reddie.— On light thrown by recent investigations on electricity on relation between matter and ether; by J. J. Thomson.—Development of general and physical chemistry during, last 40 years; by W. Nernst.—Development of technological chemistry during last 40 years; by O. N. Witt.— Twenty years' progress in explosives: by Oscar Guttmann.—Recent researches in structure of universe; by J. C. Kapteyn.—Solar vortices and magnetism in sun spots; by C. G. Abbot.—Climatic variations, their extent and causes; by J. W. Gregory.—Uranium and geology; by John Joly.—Outline review of geology of Peru [with bibliography]; by George I. Adams.—Our present knowledge of the earth; by E. Wiechert.—Antarctic question, voyages to south pole since 1898; by J. Machat.—Some geographical aspects of Nile; by H. G. Lyons.—Heredity and origin of species; by Daniel Trembly MacDougal.—Cactaceæ of northeastern and central Mexico with synopsis of principal Mexican genera; by William Edwin Safford.—Angler fishes, their kinds and ways; by Theodore Gill.—Birds of India; by Douglas Dewar.—Evolution of elephant; by Richard S. Lull.—Excavations at Boghaz-Keui in summer of 1907; by Hugo Winckler and O. Puchstein.—Malaria in Greece; by Ronald Ross.—Carl von Linné as geologist; by A. G. Nathorst.—Kelvin lecture, life and work of Lord Kelvin; by Silvanus P. Thompson.—Work of Henri Becquerel; by André Broca.
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