Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1919 [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, 1919 [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, 1919 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1921
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1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19210101
Publication End:
19211231
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Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
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1921
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xii+557 p. il. 1 por. 19 pl. 114 p. of pl. map.
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(Publication 2590.)
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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.—Modern theories of spiral nebulae; by Heber D. Curtis.—Determination of deflection of light by the sun's gravitational field, from observations made at total eclipse of May 29, 1919; by Sir F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, and C. Davidson.—Wireless telephony; by N. H. Slaughter.— Radium and electron; by Sir Ernest Rutherford.—HD-4, 70-miler with remarkable possibilities developed at Dr. Graham Bell's laboratories on Bras d'Or Lakes; by William Washburn Nutting.—Natural resources in their relation to military supplies; by Arthur D. Little.—Glass and some of its problems; by Sir Herbert Jackson.— Functions and ideals of a national geological survey; by F. L. Ransome.—Influence of cold in stimulating growth of plants; by Frederick V. Coville.—Floral aspects of British Guiana; by A. S. Hitchcock.—Milpa agriculture, primitive tropical system; by O. F. Cook.—On extinction of mammoth, by H. Neuville; [translated by Gerrit S. Miller, jr.].—Preliminary study of relation between geographical distribution and migration with special reference to Palaearctic region; by R. Meinertzhagen.—Necessity of state of action for protection of wild birds; by Walter E. Collinge.—Glimpses of desert bird life in Great Basin; by Harry C. Oberholser.—Division of Insects in National Museum; by J. M. Aldrich.—Seventeen-year locust; by R. E. Snodgrass.—Entomology and the war; by L. O. Howard.—Two types of southwestern cliff houses; by J. Walter Fewkes.—On race history and facial characteristics of aboriginal Americans; by W. H. Holmes.—Opportunity for American archeological research in Palestine; by James A. Montgomery.—Differentiation of mankind into racial types; by Arthur Keith.—Exploration of Manchuria; by Arthur de C. Sowerby.—Origin and beginnings of Czechoslovak people, by Jindřich Matiegka; [with note, by A. Hrdlička].—Geographic education in America; by Albert Perry Brigham.—Progress in national land reclamation in United States; by C. A. Bissell.—Richard Rathbun; by Marcus Benjamin. —Great chemist, Sir William Ramsay, by Ch. Moureu; [translation]. —Index.
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