Reports. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1930 [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, 1930 [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, 1930 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1931
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1931-01-01T00:00:00Z
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19310101
Publication End:
19311231
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Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
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1931
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SI 1.1:930
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xii+650 p. il. 2 por. 9 pl. 180 p. of por. and pl.
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(Publication 3077.)
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(Publication 3077.) * For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Cloth, $2.00.
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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.—Beyond red in spectrum; by H. D. Babcock.—Growth in our knowledge of the sun; by Charles E. St. John.—Modern sun cult; by J. W. Sturmer.—Moon and radioactivity; by V. S. Forbes.—Modern concepts in physics and their relation to chemistry; by Irving Langmuir.—Waves and corpuscles in modern physics, by Louis de Broglie; [translation].—New researches on effect of light waves on growth of plants; by F. S. Brackett and Earl S. Johnston.—Autogiro, its characteristics and accomplishments; by Harold F. Pitcairn.—Ten years' gliding and soaring in Germany; by Walter Georgii.—First rains and their geological significance; by Assar Hadding.—Weather and glaciation [with bibliography]; by Chester A. Reeds.—Wild life protection, urgent problem; by Ernest P. Walker.—Nesting habits of Wagler's oropendola on Barro Colorado Island; by Frank M. Chapman.—Rise of applied entomology in United States; by L. O. Howard.—Man and insects; by L. O. Howard.—Use of fish poisons in South America; by Ellsworth P. Killip and Albert C. Smith.—Rare parasitic food plant of the Southwest [Ammobroma sonorap Torr., with list of literature cited]; by Frank A. Thackery and M. French Gilman.—Mechanism of organic evolution; by Charles B. Davenport.—Extra chromosomes, source of variations in jimson weed; by Albert F. Blakeslee.—Age of human race in light of geology; by Stephen Richarz.—Elements of culture of circumpolar zone; by W. G. Bogoras.— Tell en-Nasbeh excavations of 1929, preliminary report; by William Frederic Badá.— Recent progress in field of Old World prehistory; by George Grant MacCurdy.—Ancient seating furniture in collections of National Museum; by Walter Hough.—Aspects of aboriginal decorative art in America based on specimens in National Museum; by Herbert W. Krieger.—Acclimatization of white race in the tropics; by Robert De C. Ward.—Eighth wonder, Holland vehicular tunnel; by Carl C. Gray and H. F. Hagen.— Jesse Walter Fewkes; by John R. Swanton and F. H. H. Roberts, jr.—George Perkins Merrill, 1854-1929; by Charles Schuchert.—Index.
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