Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1920 [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, 1920 [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, 1920 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1922
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1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
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19220101
Publication End:
19221231
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Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
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1922
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704 p. il. 24 pl. 206 p. of por. and pl.
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(Publication 2622.)
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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.—Studying sun's heat on mountain peaks in desert lands; by C. G. Abbot.—Habitability of Venus, Mars, and other worlds; by C. G. Abbot.—Giant suns; by H. H. Turner.—Bundle of meteorological paradoxes; by W. J. Humphreys.—Determination of structure of crystals; by Ralph W. G. Wyekoff.—Doctor Aston's experiments on mass spectra of chemical elements [extracted from articles by F. W. Aston]; with introduction by C. G. Abbot.—Vitamins; by W. D. Halliburton.—Soil acidity, its nature, measurement, and relation to plant distribution; by Edgar T. Wherry.—Chemistry of the earth's crust; by Henry S. Washington.—Major causes of land and sea oscillations; by E. O. Ulrich.—Bryozoa or moss animals; by R. S. Bassler.—Horned dinosaurs; by Charles W. Gilinore.—Rhythm in nature; by F. W. Flattely.—Parasitism and symbiosis in their relation to problem of evolution, by Maurice Caullery; translated by Gerrit S. Miller, jr.—Local suppression of agricultural pests by birds; by W. L. McAtee.—Occult senses in birds; by Herbert H. Beck.—Adventures in life of fiddler crab; by O. W. Hyman.—Senses of insects; by N. E. McIndoo.—Resplendent shield-bearer and ribbed-cocoon-maker, 2 insect inhabitants of orchard; by R. E. Snodgrass.—Origin of insect societies, by Auguste Lameere; [translation].—Botanical gardens of Jamaica; by William R. Maxon.—Daturas of Old World and New, account of their narcotic properties and their use in oracular and initiatory ceremonies; by William E. Safford.—Effect of relative length of day and night on flowering and fruiting of plants; by W. W. Garner and H. A. Aliard.—Fire worship of Hopi Indians; by J. Walter Fewkes.—Racial groups and figures in Natural History Building of National Museum; by Walter Hough.—Notes on dances, music, and songs of ancient and modern Mexicans, by Auguste Genin; [translation].—Ralph Cross Johnson collection in National Gallery, Washington, D. C.; by George B. Rose.—Index.
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