Reports. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1917 [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, 1917 [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, 1917 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1919
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1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19190101
Publication End:
19191231
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Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
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1919
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xii+674 p. il. 2 por. 8 pl. 230 p. of pl. and maps, 3 maps.
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([Publication 2502.])
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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.—Projectiles containing explosives, by Commandant A. R.; translated by Charles E. Munroe.—Gold and silver deposits in North and South America; by Waldemar Lindgren.—Composition and structure of meteorites compared with that of terrestrial rocks; by George P. Merrill.—Corals and formation of coral reefs; by Thomas Wayland Vaughan.—Correlation of Quaternary deposits of British Isles with those of continent of Europe [with list of references]; by Charles E. P. Brooks.—Natural history of Paradise Key and near-by Everglades of Florida; by W. E. Safford.—Notes on early history of pecan in America; by Rodney H. True.— Floral aspects of Hawaiian Islands; by A. S. Hitchcock.—Social, educational, and scientific value of botanic gardens; by John Merle Coulter.—Bird rookeries of Tortugas; by Paul Bartsch.—Catalepsy in phasmidae; by P. Schmidt.—Economic consideration of orthoptera directly affecting man; by A. N. Caudell.—Outline of relations of animals to their inland environments [with list of references]; by Charles C. Adams.—National Zoological Park, popular account of its collections; by N. Hollister.— The sea as conservator of wastes and reservoir of food; by H. F. Moore.—Ojibway habitations and other structures; by David I. Bushnell, jr.—National work at British Museum; Museums and advancement of learning; by F. A. Bather.—Leonhard Fuchs, physician and botanist, 1501-66; by Felix Neumann.—In memoriam, Edgar Alexander Mearns, 1856-1916; by Charles W. Richmond.—William Bullock Clark—Index.
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