Animal report of board of regents, year ending June 30, 1912 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Animal report of board of regents, year ending June 30, 1912 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Animal report of board of regents, year ending June 30, 1912 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
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1913
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1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
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19130101
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19131231
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Smithsonian Institution
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13
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1913
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xii+780 p. il. 6 pl. 66 p. of pl. map.
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([Publication 2188.])
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([Publication 2188.]) * For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Cloth. 85c.
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CONTENTS.—Report of secretary.—Report of executive committee.—Proceedings of board of regents.—Year's progress in astronomy; by P. Pulseux.—Spiral nebulæ by P. Puiseux.—Radiation of the sun; by C. G. Abbot.—Molecular theories and mathematics; by Emile Borel.—Modern mathematical research; by G. A. Miller.—Connection between ether and matter; by Henri Poincaré.—Experiments with soap bubbles; by C. V. Boys.—Measurements of infinitesimal quantities of substances; by Sir William Ramsay.—Latest achievements and problems of chemical industry; by Carl Duisberg.— Holes in air; by W. J. Humphreys.—Review of applied mechanics; by L. Lecornu.— Report on recent great eruption of Volcano Stromboli; by Frank A. Perret.—Glacial and postglacial lakes of Great Lakes region; by Frank B. Taylor.—Applied geology; by Alfred H. Brooks.—Relations of paleobotany to geology; by F. H. Knowlton.— Geophysical research; by Arthur L., Day.—Trip to Madagascar, country of beryls; by A. Lacroix.—Fluctuating climate of North America; by Ellsworth Huntington.—Survival of organs and culture of living tissues; by R. Legendre.—Adaptation and inheritance in light of modern experimental investigation; by Paul Kammerer.—Paleogeograpbical relations of Antarctica; by Charles Hedley.—Ants and their guests; by P. K. Wasmann.—Penguins of Antarctic regions; by L., Gain.—Derivation of European domestic animals; by C. Keller.—Life. its nature, origin, and maintenance; by E. A. Schäfer.—Origin of life, chemist's fantasy; by H. E. Armstrong.—Appearance of life on worlds and hypothesis of Arrhénius; by Alphonse Berget.—Evolution of man; by G. Elliot Smith.—History and varieties of human speech; by Edward Sapir.—Ancient Greece and its slave population; by S. Zaborowski.—Origin and evolution of blond Europeans; by Adolphe Bloch.—History of finger-print system; by Berthold Laufer.— Urbanism, historic, geographic, and economic study; by Pierre Clerget.—Sinai problem; by E. Oberbummer.—Music of primitive peoples and beginnings of European music; by Willy Pastor.—Expedition to South pole; by Roald Amundsen.—Icebergs and their location in navigation; by Howard T. Barnes.—Henri Poincaré. his scientific work, his philosophy; by Charles Nordmann.—Index.
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