Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1924 [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, 1924 [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, 1924 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1925
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1925-01-01T00:00:00Z
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19250101
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19251231
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Smithsonian Institution
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13
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1925
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SI 1.1:924/1
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xii+535 p. il. 2 por. 9 pl. 92 p. of pl.
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(Publication 2795.)
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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.—Origin of solar system; by J. H. Jeans.—Electrical structure of matter; by Sir Ernest Rutherford.—Physicist's present conception of an atom; by R. A. Millikan.—The vacuum, there's something in it; by W. R. Whitney.—Use of radium in medicine, by Antoine Béclère; [translation].— Clear fused quartz made in electric furnace; by Edward R. Berry.—Drifting of continents, by Pierre Termier; [translation].—Probable solution of climate problem in geology; by Wilhelm Ramsay.—Modern menagerie, more about National Zoological Park; by N. Hollister.—Nests and nesting habits of American eagle; by Francis H. Herrick.—Breeding places of eel; by Johs. Schmidt.—Cankerworms; by R. B. Snodgrass.—Botanical trip to Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia; by A. S. Hitchcock.—Orchid collecting in Central America; by Paul C. Standley.—Sketches from notebook of naturalist-traveler in Oceania during 1923; by Casey A. Wood.—Historical tradition and oriental research; by James Henry Breasted.—Shamanism of natives of Siberia; by I. M. Casanowicz.—Egypt as field for anthropological research; by P. E. Newberry.—North American Indian dwellings [with bibliography]; by T. T. Waterman.—Nature of language [with bibliography]; by R. L. Jones.—John Mix Stanley, artistexplorer; by David I. Bushnell, jr.—Herluf Winge. 1857-1023, by Th. Mortensen; [translation].—Index.
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