Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1918 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1918 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1918 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1920
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1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19200101
Publication End:
19201231
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Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
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1920
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xii+612 p. il. 1 por. 25 pl. 28 p. of pl.
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(Publication 2549.)
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(Publication 2549.) * For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Cloth, $1.15 (incorrectly given in publication as 75c.).
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CONTENTS.—Report of secretary of Smithsonian Institution [with reports of subordinate bureaus, including library, and editor's report on publications issued].—Report of executive committee of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution.—Proceedings of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution.—Discovery of helium and what came of it; by C. G. Abbot.—Account of rise of navigation; by R. H. Curtiss.—Tornadoes of United States; by Robert DeC. Ward.—Wind power; by James Carlill.—Tribute, Samuel Pierpont Langley, pioneer in practical aviation; by Henry Leffmann.—Twentieth century physics; by R. A. Millikan.—Experiments of P. W. Bridgman on properties of matter when under high pressure; introductory note by C. G. Abbot.—Problem of radioactive lead; by Theodore W. Richards.—Sphagnum moss, war substitute for cotton in absorbent surgical dressings; by George E. Nichols.—History of military medicine and its contributions to science; by Weston P. Chamberlain.—Some problems of international readjustment of mineral supplies as indicated in recent foreign literature; [by] Eleanora F. Bliss.—Reptile reconstructions in National Museum; by Charles W. Gilmore.—Pleistocene cave deposit of western Maryland; by J. W. Gidley.—Paleobotany, sketch of origin and evolution of floras; by Edward W. Berry.—Direct action of environment and evolution; by Prince Kropotkin.—On law of irreversible evolution [with list of literature], by Branislav Petronievics; [translated by Gerrit S. Miller; jr.].—Fundamental factor of insect evolution, by S. S. Chetverikov; [translated by Jacob Kotinsky].—Psychic life of insects, by E. L. Bouvier; [translation].—Sexual selection and bird song; by Chauncey J. Hawkins.—Marine camoufleurs and their camouflage, present and prospective significance of facts regarding coloration of tropical fishes; by W. H. Longley.—Foot plow agriculture in Peru; by O. P. Cook.—Sun worship of Hopi Indians; by J. Walter Fewkes.—Constitutional league of peace in stone age of America, league of the Iroquois and its constitution; by J. N. B. Hewitt.—Problem of degeneracy; by A. F. Tredgold.—History in tools; by W. M. Flinders Petrie.—Background of totemism; by E. Washburn Hopkins.—Great naturalist, Sir Joseph Hooker; by Sir E. Ray Lankester.—Index.
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