Reports. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1914 [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, 1914 [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, 1914 [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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1915
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1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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19150101
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19151231
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Smithsonian Institution
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13
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1915
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xi+729 p. il. 12 pl. 142 p. of por. and pl. map.
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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 resents of Smithsonian Institution.—Radiation of the sun; by C. G. Abbot.—Modern theories of the sun; by Jean Bosler.—Form and constitution of the earth; by Louis B. Stewart.—Some remarks on logarithms apropos to their tercentenary; by M. d'Ocagne.—Modern views on constitution of the atom; by A. S. Eve.—Gyrostats and gyrostatic action; by Andrew Gray.—Stability of aeroplanes; by Orville Wright.— First man-carrying aeroplane capable of sustained free flight, Langley's success as pioneer in aviation; by A. F. Zahm.—Some aspects of industrial chemistry; by L. H. Baekeland.—Explosives; by Edward P. O'Hern.—Climates of geologic time; by Charles Schuchert.—Pleoehroic haloes; by J. Joly.—Geology of bottom of the seas; by L. de Launay.—Recent oceanographic researches; by Ch. Gravier.—Klondike and Yukon goldfield in 1913; by H. M. Cadell.—History of discovery of sexuality in plants; by Duncan S. Johnson.—Problems and progress in plant pathology; by L. R. Jones.— Plant-autographs and their revelations; by Jagadis Chunder Bose.—National Zoological Park and its inhabitants; by Frank Baker.—On habits and behavior of herring gull, Larus argentatus pont; by R. M. Strong.—Notes on some effects of extreme drought in Waterberg, South Africa; by Eugéne N. Marais.—Homœotic regeneration of antennæ in Phasmid or walkingstick [with bibliography]; by H. O. Schmit-Jensen.—Latent life, its nature and its relations to certain theories of contemporary biology; by Paul Becquerel.—Early inhabitants of western Asia; by Felix v. Luschan.— Excavations at Abydos; by Edouard Naville.—Examination of Chinese bronzes; by John C. Ferguson.—Role of depopulation, deforestation, and malaria in decadence of certain nations; by Felix Regnault.—Story of the chin; by Louis Robinson.—Recent W. Hetherington.—Sketch of life of Eduard Suess (1831-1914); by Pierre Termier.— Index.
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