Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1932 [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, 1932 [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, 1932 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1933
Publish Date ISO Format:
1933-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19330101
Publication End:
19331231
Corporate/Agency Author:
Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1933
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SI 1.1:932
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xiii+497 p. il. 7 pl. 48 p. of pl.
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(Publication 3185.)
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(Publication 3185.) * For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Paper, 70c.
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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.—Solar radiation; by C. G. Abbot.— Variable stars; by L. V. Robinson.—Master key of science, revealing the universe through spectroscope; by Henry Norris Russell.—Decline of determinism; by Sir Arthur Eddington.—Measurement of noise; by G. W. C. Kaye.—Age of the earth and age of the ocean [with list of references]; by Adolph Knopf.—Contribution to geological history of north Atlantic region [with bibliography]; by Albert Gilligan.—Meteorite craters at Henbury, Central Australia; by Arthur Richard Alderman.—Some geographical results of Byrd Antarctic Expedition; by Laurence M. Gould.—Some phases of modern deepsea oceanography, with description of some of equipment and methods of newly formed Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; by C. O'D. Iselin, H.—Safety devices in wings of birds; by R. R. Graham.—Through forest and jungle in Kashmir and other parts of north India; by Casey A. Wood.—Decade of bird banding in America, a review [with list of literature cited]; by Frederick C. Lincoln.—Insect enemies of insects and their relation to agriculture; by Curtis P. Clausen.—Plant records of rocks; by A. C. Seward.—Cultivating algae for scientific research [with list of Selected literature for study of algae]; by Florence E. Meier.—Present status of light therapy, scientific and practical aspects; by Edgar Mayer.—Rise of man and modern research; by James H. Breasted.—Mohenjo-Daro and ancient civilization of Indus Valley; by Dorothy Mackay.—Historical cycles [with bibliography]; by O. G. S. Crawford.—Great Wall of Peru and other aerial photographic studies by Shippee-Johnson Peruvian Expedition; by Robert Shippee.—Status of woman in Iroquois polity before 1784; by J. N. B. Hewitt.—Index.
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