Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1934 [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, 1934 [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, 1934 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1935
Publish Date ISO Format:
1935-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19350101
Publication End:
19351231
Corporate/Agency Author:
Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1935
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SI 1.1:934
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xiv+448 p. il. 5 pl. 68 p. of pl.
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(Publication 3305.)
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(Publication 3305.) * For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Paper, $1.00.
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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.—New world-picture of modern physics; by Sir James H. Jeans.—Markings and rotation of Mercury; by K. M. Antoniadi.—British Polar Year Expedition to Fort Rae, northwest Canada, 1932-83; by J. M Stagg.—Protium, deuterium, tritium, the hydrogen trio; by Hugh S. Taylor.—Some chemical aspects of life; by Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins.—Commercial extraction of bromine from sea water [with list of literature cited]; by Leroy C. Stewart.—Before papyrus, beyond rayon; by Gustavus J. Esseleu.—Variety in tides; by H. A. Marnier.—Modern seismology; by F. J. Scrase.—A generation's progress in study of evolution [with list of literature cited]; by Edwin G. Conklin.—How fishes learned to swim, by Anatol Heintz; [translation].—Curious and beautiful birds of Ceylon; by Casey A. Wood.—Influence of civilization on insect fauna in cultivated areas of North America; by Roger C. Smith.—Arctic butterflies; by Austin H. Clark.—Grasses, what they are and where they live; by A. S. Hitchcock.—Phototropism, specific growth response to light [with selected bibliography]; by Earl S. Johnston.—Outline development of highway travel, especially in America [with selected bibliography]; by Carl W. Mitman.—Via Appia in days when all roads led to Rome [with list of literature cited]; by Albert C. Rose.—Smithsonian archeologieal projects conducted under Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 1933-34; by M. W. Stirling.—Indian cultures of northeastern South America; by Herbert W. Krieger.—Commerce, trade, and monetary units of the Maya [with bibliography]; by Frans Blom.—Index.
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