Reports. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1913 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Reports. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1913 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Reports. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1913 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1914
Publish Date ISO Format:
1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19140101
Publication End:
19141231
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Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1914
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xi+804 p. il. 22 pl. 1 map, 146 p. of pl. and maps.
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([Publication 2277.])
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CONTENTS.—Report of secretary of Smithsonian Institution.—Report of executive committee of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution.—Proceedings of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution.—Earth and sun as magnets; by George Ellery Hale.—Reaction of planets upon the sun; by P. Pulseux.—Recent progress in astrophysics; by C. G. Abbot.—Earth's magnetism; by L. A. Bauer.—Modern ideas on end of the world; by Gustav Jaumann.—Recent developments in electromagnetism; by Eugene Bloch.—Wireless transmission of energy; by Elihu Thomson.—Oil films on water and on mercury; by Henri Devaux.—Water and volcanic activity; by Arthur L. Day and E. S. Shepherd.—Ripple marks; by Ch. Epry.—Notes on geological history of walnuts and hickories; by Edward W. Berry.—Formation of leafmold; by Frederick V. Coville.—Development of orchid cultivation and its bearing upon evolutionary theories; by J. Costantin.—Manufacture of nitrates from the atmosphere; by Ernest Kilburn Scott.—Geologic history of China and its influence upon Chinese people; by Eliot Blackwelder.—Problems of heredity; by E. Apert.—Habits of fiddler crabs [with bibliography]; by A. S. Pearse.—Abalones of California; by Charles Lincoln Edwards.—Value of birds to man; by James Buckland.—Experiments in feeding humming birds during 7 summers; by Althea R. Sherman.—What American Bird Banding Association has accomplished during 1912; by Howard H. Cleaves.—Whale fisheries of the world; by Charles Rabot.—Most ancient skeletal remains of man [with bibliography]; by A. Hrdlieka.—Redistribution of mankind; by H. N. Dickson.—Earliest forms of human habitation and their relation to general development of civilization; by M. Hoernes.—Feudalism in Persia, its origin, development, and present condition; by Jacques de Morgan.—Shintoism and its significance: by K. Kanokogi.—Minoan and Mycenaean element in Hellenic life; by Arthur J. Evans.— Flameless combustion; by Carleton Ellis.—Problems in smoke, fume, and dust abatement; by F. G. Cottrell,—Twenty years' progress in marine construction; by Alexander Grade.—Creating subterranean river and supplying metropolis with mountain water; 1, Creating subterranean river 90 miles in length, by J. Bernard Walker; [2, Supplying metropolis with mountain water, by A. Russell Bond].—Application of physiology of color vision in modern art; by Henry G. Keller and J. J. R. Macleod.—Fundamentals of housing reform; by James Ford.—Economic and social role of fashion; by Pierre Clerget.—Work of J. H. Van't Hoff; by G. Bruni.—Index.
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