Report. Annual report of regents, year ending June 30, 1910 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Report. Annual report of regents, year ending June 30, 1910 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Report. Annual report of regents, year ending June 30, 1910 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1911
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1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19110101
Publication End:
19111231
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Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1911
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vii+688 p. il. 3 por. 11 pl. 114 p. of pl. map.
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CONTENTS.—Report of secretary-Report of executive committee—Proceedings of regents.—Melville Weston Fuller, 1833-1910; by Charles D. Walcott.—Ornamentation of rugs and carpets; by Alan S. Cole.—Recent progress in aviation; by Octave Chanute.—Progress in reclamation of arid lands in western United States; by F. H. Newell.—Electric power from Mississippi River; by Chester M Clark.—Safety provisions in United States Steel Corporation; by David S. Beyer.—Isolation of ion, precision measurement of its charge, and correction of Stokes's law; by R. A. Millikan.—Telegraphy of photographs, wireless and by wire; by T. Thome Baker— Modern ideas on constitution of matter; by Jean Becquerel.—Some modern developments in methods of testing explosives; by Charles E. Munroe.—Sir William Huggins; by W. W. Campbell.—Solar constant of radiation; by C. O. Abbot.—Astronomical problems of southern hemisphere; by Heber D. Curtis.—Progressive disclosure of entire atmosphere of the sun; by H. Deslandres.—Recent progress in astrophysics in United States; by J. Boater.—Future habitability of the earth; by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin.—What is terra firma? review of current research in isostasy; by Bailey Willis.—Transpiration and ascent of sap; by Henry H. Dixon.—Sacred ear-flower of Aztecs, xochinacaztli; by William Edwin Safford.— Forest preservation; by Henry S. Graves.—Alexander Agassis, 1835-1910; by Alfred Ooldsborougb Mayer.—Recent work on determination of sex; by Leonard Donraster.—Significance of pulse rate in vertebrate animals [with list of references]; by Florence Buchanan.—Natural history of solitary wasps of genus Synagris [with bibliography]; by E. Roubaud.—Contribution to ecology of adult hoatzin [with bibliography]; by C. William Beebe.—Migration of Pacific plover to and from Hawaiian Islands; by Henry W. Henshaw.—Plumages of ostrich; by J. E. Duerden.—Manifested life of tissues outside of organism; by Alexis Carrel and Montrose T. Burrows.—Origin of Druidism; by Julius Pokorny.—Geographical and statistical view of contemporary Slav peoples; by Lubor Niederle.—Cave dwellings of Old and New Worlds; by J. Walter Fewkes.—Origin of west African crossbows; by Henry Balfour.—Sanitation on farms; by Allen W. Freeman.—Epidemiology of tuberculosis; by Robert Koch.
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