Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ended June 30, 1936 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
Publication Title:
Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ended June 30, 1936 [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 ended June 30, 1936 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
Corporate Agency Authors:
Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1937
Publish Date ISO Format:
1937-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19370101
Publication End:
19371231
Corporate/Agency Author:
Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1937
SuDoc number:
SI 1.1:936
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xiv+446 p. il. 6 pl. 116 p. of por. and pl.
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(Publication 3405.)
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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.—Astronomy in Shakespeare's time and in ours; by C. O. Abbot.—Size and age of the universe; by Sir James Jeans.—The earth, the sun, and sunspots: by Loring B. Andrews.— Northern lights; by A. S. Eve.—Radioactivity and atomic theory; by Lord Rutherford.— Cryogenic laboratory at Leiden, by Robert Gulllien; [translation].—Form, drift, and rhythm of continents; by W. W. Watts.—Core samples of ocean bottom; by Charles Snowden Piggot.—Some new aspects of evolution; by W. P. Pycraft.—What is meaning of predation by Paul L. Errington.—Gorillas of Kayonsa region, western Kigezi. southwest Uganda; by C. R. S. Pitman.—Vampire bat, presentation of undescribed habits and review of its history [with bibliography]; by Raymond L. Ditmars and Arthur M. Greenhall.—Some of commoner birds of Ceylon; bv Casey A. Wood.—Wax palms [with list of references]; by Miriam L. Bomhard.—Significance of shell structure in diatoms; by Paul S. Conger.—Some aspects of plant virus problem [with list of references]; by Kenneth M. Smith.—Sun rays and plant life [with list of references cited]; by Earl S. Johnston.—Reactions to ultraviolet radiation [with bibliography]; by Florence E. Meier.—Aerial photography; by H. K. Baisley.—Easter Island, Polynesia; by Henri Lavachery.—Eskimo archeology of Greenland; by Therkel Mathiassen.— Petroglyphs of Flitted States: by Julian H. Steward.—History of crossbow, illustrated from specimens in National Museum (with special bibliography]; by C. Martin Wilbur.— Index.
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