Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1935 [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, 1935 [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, 1935 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1936
Publish Date ISO Format:
1936-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19360101
Publication End:
19361231
Corporate/Agency Author:
Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1936
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SI 1.1:935
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xiv+580 p. il. 12 pl. 86 p. of pl. map.
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(Publication 3348.)
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(Publication 3348.) * 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.—Weather governed by changes in sun's radiation; by C. G. Abbot.—Seasonal weather and its prediction; by Sir Gilbert T. Walker.—The sun's place among stars; by Walter S. Adams.—Atmospheres of planets; by Henry Norris Russell.—Surface features of the moon; by F. E. Wright.—Upper atmosphere; by G. M. B. Dobson.—Nature of cosmic radiation [with list of references]; by Thomas H. Johnson.—What is electricity by Paul R. Heyl.—New facts about nucleus of the atom; by Carl D. Anderson.—Approach to absolute zero of temperature; by F. Simon.—Discovery and significance of vitamins; by Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins.—Salinity of irrigation water; by Carl S. Scofield.—Selenium absorption by plants and their resulting toxicity to animals [with list of literature cited]; by Annie M. Hurd-Karrer.—Glacial history of extinct volcano, Crater Lake National Park; by Wallace W. Atwood, jr.—Concretions, freaks in stone; by R. S. Bassler.—Biology and human trends; by Raymond Pearl.—Relation of genetics to physiology and medicine; by Thomas Hunt Morgan.—Conservation of Pacific halibut, an international experiment [with bibliography]; by William F. Thompson.—Swallow-tail butterflies; by Austin H. Clark.—Those ubiquitous plants called algae; by Florence E. Meier.—Boulder Canyon project [with list of reference literature]; by Wesley R. Nelson.—Wings over the sea, are landing places necessary for commercial aerial crossing of north Atlantic by Louis Bleriot; [translation].—Coming of man from Asia in light of recent discoveries [with list of author's contributions to subject]; by Aleš Hrdlička.—Antiquity of man in America in light of archeology; by N. C. Nelson.—Survey of southwestern archeology [with list of literature cited]; by Frank H. H. Roberts, jr.—Nuzi and the Hurrians, excavations at Nuzi (Kirkuk, Iraq) and their contribution to our knowledge of history of the Hurrians [with bibliography]; by Robert H. Pfeiffer.—Ruins of Tenampua, Honduras; by Dorothy Hughes Popenoe.—Index.
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