Reports. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1915 [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, 1915 [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, 1915 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1916
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1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19160101
Publication End:
19161231
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Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1916
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xii+544 p. il. 17 pl. 70 p. of pl. 6 maps.
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([Publication 2410.])
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([Publication 2410.]) * For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Cloth, 85c.
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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.—Review of astronomy for year 1913; by P. Puiseux.—Utilization of solar energy; by A. S. E. Ackermann.—Constitution of matter and evolution of elements; by Sir Ernest Rutherford.—Submarine signaling, protection of shipping by wall of sound and other uses of submarine telegraph oscillator; by R. F. Blake.—Earthquake in the Marsica, central Italy; by Ernesto Mancini.—Atlantis; by Pierre Termier.—Evidences of primitive life; by Charles D. Walcott.—Place of forestry among natural sciences; by Henry S. Graves.—Lignum nephriticum, its history and account of remarkable fluorescence of its infusion; by W. E. Safford.—Impressions of voices of tropical birds; by Louis Agassia Fuertes.— Eskimo curlew and its disappearance; by Myron H. Swenk.—Construction of insect nests; by Y. Sjöstedt.—Olden time knowledge of Hippocampus; by Charles R. Eastman.—Heredity; by William Bateson.—Some aspects of progress in modern zoology; by Edmund B. Wilson.—Linguistic areas in Europe, their boundaries and political significance; by Leon Dominian.—Excavations at Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, 1913-14; by Ludwig Borchardt.—Vaccines; by L. Roger.—Progress in reclamation of arid lands in western United States; by J. B. Beadle.—Some recent developments in telephony and telegraphy; by Frank B. Jewett.—Sir David Gill, 1843-1914; by A. S. Eddington.—Walter Holbrook Gaskell, 1847-1914; by J. N. Langley.—Index.
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