Annual report of regents, year ending June 30, 1911 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Annual report of regents, year ending June 30, 1911 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Annual report of regents, year ending June 30, 1911 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1912
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1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19120101
Publication End:
19121231
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Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1912
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xii+688 p. il. 2 por. 11 pl. 82 p. of pl. and maps. 2 maps.
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([Publication 2095.])
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CONTENTS.—Report of secretary.—Report of executive committee—Proceedings of regents.—Gyrostatic compass; by H. Marchand.—Radiotelegraphy; by G. Marconi.—Multiplex telephony and telegraphy by means of electric waves guided by wires; by George O. Squier.—Recent experiments with invisible light; by R. W. Wood.—What electrochemistry is accomplishing; by Joseph W. Richards.—Ancient and modern views regarding chemical elements; by Sir William Ramsay.—Faraday Lecture: Fundamental properties of elements; by Theodore William Richards.—Production and identification of artificial precious stones; by Noel Heaton.—Sterilization of drinking water by ultraviolet radiations; by Jules Courmont.—Legal time in various countries; by M. Philippot.—Some recent interesting developments in astronomy; by J. S. Plaskett.—Age of the earth; by J. Joly.—International air map and aeronautical marks; by Ch. Lallemand.—Geologic work of ants in tropical America; by J. C. Branner.—On value of fossil floras of Arctic regions as evidence of geological climates, by A. G. Nathorst; translated by E. A. Newell Arber.—Recent advances in our knowledge of production of light by living organisms [with list of references]; by F. Alex. McDermott.—Organic evolution, Darwinian and De Vriesian; by N. C. Macnamara.—Magnalia naturæ, or greater problems of biology; by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.—History of certain great horned owls; by Charles R. Keyes.—Passenger pigeon: 1, Description of wild pigeons which visit southern English colonies in North America, during certain years, in incredible multitudes, by Pehr Kalm; [2, Passenger pigeon, by John James Audubon.]—Note on iridescent colors of birds and insects; by A. Mallock.—On positions assumed by birds in flight; by Bentley Beetham.—Garden of serpents, Butantan, Brazil; by S. Pozzi.—Some useful native plants of New Mexico; by Paul C. Standley.—Tree ferns of North America; by William R. Maxon.—Value of ancient Mexican manuscripts in study of general development of writing [with bibliography]; by Alfred M. Tozzer.—Discoverers of art of iron manufacture; by W. Belck.—Kabyles of north Africa; by A. Lissauer.—Chinese architecture and its relation to Chinese culture; by Ernst Boerschmann.—Lolos of Kientchang, western China; by A. F. Legendre.—Physiology of sleep; by R. Legendre.—Profitable and fruitless lines of endeavor in public health work; by Edwin O. Jordan.—Factory sanitation and efficiency; by C.-E. A. Winslow.—Physiological influence of ozone; by Leonard Hill and Martin Flack.—Traveling at high speeds on surface of the earth and above it; by H. S. Hele-Shaw.—Robert Koch, 1843-1910; by C. J. M.—Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1817-1911; by D. Prain.
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