Reports. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1931 [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, 1931 [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, 1931 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1932
Publish Date ISO Format:
1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19320101
Publication End:
19321231
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Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1932
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SI 1.1:931
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xiii+592 p. il. 1 por. 8 pl. 78 p. of pl.
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(Publication 3142.)
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(Publication 3142.) * For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Cloth, $1.75.
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CONTENTS.—Report of secretary of Smithsonian Institution fwith 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.—Twenty-five years' study of solar radiation; by C. G. Abbot.—Composition of the sun; by Henry Norris Russell.—Sun spots and radio reception; by Harlan T. Stetson.—Evolving universe; by Sir James Jeans.—Rotation of the galaxy; by A. S. Eddington.—Stellar laboratories; by Theodore Duubam, jr.—Present status of theory and experiment as to atomic disintegration and atomic synthesis; by Robert A. Millikan.—Assault on atoms; by Arthur H. Compton.—Two-way television; by Herbert E. Ives.—Research Corporation awards to A. E. Douglass and Ernst Antevs for researches in chronology, presentation at Smithsonian Institution, Washington, Dec. 18, 1931.—Shaping the earth; by William Bowie.—The earth beneath in light of modern seismology; by Ernest A. Hodgson.—Coming to grips with earthquake problem; by N. H. Heck.—Growing plants without soil; by Earl S. Johnston.—Some aspects of adaptation of living organisms to their environment [with list of references]; by H. S. Halcro Wardlaw.—Utilization of aquatic plants as aids in mosquito control [with list of literature cited]; by Robert Matheson.—Our friends the insects [with list of literature cited]; by W. V. Balduf.—Evolution of insect head and organs of feeding [with list of references]; by R. E. Snodgrass.—Debt of agriculture to tropical America; by O. F. Cook.—Some wild flowers from Swiss meadows and mountains; by Casey A. Wood.—Antiquity of civilized man; by A. H. Sayce.—Discovery of primitive man in China; by G. Elliot Smith.—Culture of Shang Dynasty; by James M. Menzies.—Totem polos, recent native art of northwest coast of America; by Marius Barbeau.—Brobdingnaglan bridges; by Othmar H. Ammann.—Albert Abraham Michelson; by Forest R. Moulton.—Index.
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