Annual report of regents, year ending June 30, 1909 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
Publication Title:
Annual report of regents, year ending June 30, 1909 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
Display Title:
Annual report of regents, year ending June 30, 1909 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
Corporate Agency Authors:
Smithsonian Institution
Sort Author:
Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1910
Publish Date ISO Format:
1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19100101
Publication End:
19101231
Corporate/Agency Author:
Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1910
Description:
x+751 p. il. 2 por. 70 pl. 5 maps.
Notes:
([Publication 1986.])
Notes:
([Publication 1986.]) * For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Cloth, $1.10.
Notes:
CONTENTS.—Report of secretary.—Report of executive committee.—Proceedings of regents.—Acts of Congress.—Future of mathematics; by Henri Poincare.—What constitutes superiority in air-ship; by Paul Renard.—Researches in radiotelegraphy; by J. A. Fleming.—Recent progress in physics; by J. J. Thomson.—Production of low temperatures, and refrigeration; by L. Marchis.—Nitrogen question from military standpoint; by Charles E. Munroe.—Simon Newcomb; by Ormond Stone.—Solarradiation researches by Jules César Janssen; by A. de la Baume Pluvinel.—Return of Halley's comet; by W. W. Campbell.—Upper air; by E. Gold and W. A. Harwood.— Formation, growth, and habit of crystals; by Paul Gaubert.—Distribution of elements in igneous rocks; by Henry S. Washington.—Mechanism of volcanic action; by H. J. Johnston-Lavis.—Conservation of natural resources; by James Douglas.—Antarctic Land of Victoria, from voyage of Discovery; by Maurice Zimmermann.—Some results of British Antarctic expedition, 1907-9; by E. H. Shackleton.—Oceanography of sea of Greenland; by D. Damas.—From Niger, by Lake Chad, to Nile; by Boyd Alexander.—Mesopotamia, past, present, and future; by William willcocks.—Albert Gaudry and evolution of animal kingdom; by Ph. Glangeaud.—Charles Darwin; by August Weismann.—Present problems in plant ecology, problems of local distribution in arid regions; by Volney M. Spalding.—Instinct of self-concealment and choice of colors in Crustacea; by Romuald Minkiewicz.—Origin and development of parasitical habits in Cuculidae; by C. L. Barrett.—Some remarks on protective resemblance of South African birds; by Alwin Haagner.—Inquiry into history of current English names of North American land birds; by Spencer Trotter.—Condition of wild life in Alaska; by Madison Grant.—Recent discoveries bearing on antiquity of man in Europe; by George Grant MacCurdy.—European population of United States; by William Z. Ripley.—Republic of Panama and its people, with special reference to Indians [with bibliography]; by Eleanor Yorke Bell.—Ceramic decoration, its evolution and its applications; by Louis Franchet.—Some notes on Roman architecture; by F. T. Baggallay.—Relation of science to human life; by Adam Sedgwick.—Intellectual work among blind; by Pierre Villey.—Relation of mosquitoes, flies, ticks, fleas, and other arthropods to pathology; by G. Marotel.—Natural resistance to infectious disease and its reinforcement: by Simon Flexner.
Availability:
* For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Cloth, $1.10.