Annual report of board of regents, 1894 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Annual report of board of regents, 1894 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Annual report of board of regents, 1894 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1896
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1896-01-01T00:00:00Z
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18960101
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18961231
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Smithsonian Institution
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13
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1896
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xl + 770 pp. il. 42 pl. 32 maps.
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([Publication 992A] House mis. doc. 90, pt. 1, 53d Cong. 3d sess. In v. 15.)
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([Publication 992A] House mis. doc. 90, pt. 1, 53d Cong. 3d sess. In v. 15.)
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Contents of appendix:
Antarctica, a vanished austral land; by H. O. Forbes.
Ants nests; by August Forel.
Archæological research, Methods of; by Sir Henry Howorth
Arctic and Antarctic regions, Promotion of further discovery in; by C. R. Markham.
Berlin University, Founding of, and transition from philosophic to scientific age; by Rudolph Virchow.
Blanc. Mont, Four days' observations at summit of; by M. J. Janssen.
Bronze, Art of casting, in Japan; by W. Gowland.
Cartography of America, Development of, up to 1570; by Sophus Ruge.
Drop, Splash of a, and allied phenomena; by A. M. Worthington.
Electricity, Age of; by M. Mascart.
— Part played by, in phenomena of animal life; by Ernest Solvay.
Evolution, organic, Method of; by A. R. Wallace.
— of modern society in its historical aspects; by R. D. Melville.
Fossils, Origin of oldest, and discovery of bottom of ocean; by W. K. Brooks.
Guanches, ancient inhabitants of Canary; by J. W. Gambier.
Heart and circulation, Modern developments of Harvey's work in treatment of diseases of; by T. L. Brunton.
Helmholtz, Hermann von: by A. W. Rücker.
Henry, The; by T. C. Mendenhall.
Hertz, Heinrich, Sketch of; by Helene Bonfort.
Institute of France in 1894; by M. Loewy.
Latitude, Variation of; by J. K. Rees.
Light and electricity according to Maxwell and Hertz; by Henri Poincaré.
Mars, Schiaparelli's latest views regarding; translated by W H. Pickering.
Migration and food quest, a study in the peopling of America; by O. T. Mason.
Nimes, Discovery of Creek horizontal curves in Maison Carrée, at; by W. H. Good year.
Ocean, Physical condition of; by W. J. L. Wharton
Photographic photometry; by M. J. Janssen.
Physiological station at Paris, Work of; by E. J. Marey.
Physiology, Relations of, to chemistry and morphology; by Giulio Fano.
Plant food, Waste and conservation of, by H. W. Wiley.
Prestidigitation, Psychology of; by Alfred Binet.
Scientific problems of the future; by H. Elsdale.
Solar system, On magnitude of; by William Harkness.
Study and research; by Rudolph Virchow.
Terrestrial magnetism; by A. W. Rücker.
Typhoid and colon bacillus, Influence of certain agents in destroying vitality of; by J. S. Billings and A. W. Peckham.
Weather making, ancient and modern; by M. W. Harrington.