Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1937 [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, 1937 [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, 1937 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1938
Publish Date ISO Format:
1938-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19380101
Publication End:
19381231
Corporate/Agency Author:
Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1938
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SI 1.1:937
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xv+580 p. il. 6 pl. 128 p. of pl. 2 maps.
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(Publication 3451.)
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(Publication 3451.) * 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.—Constitution of stars; by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington.—Discoveries from solar eclipse expeditions; by S. A. Mitchell.—Changes in length of day; by Ernest W. Brown.—Thunderstorm; by E. A. Evans and K. B. McEachron. —Electron, its intellectual and social significance; by Karl T. Compton.—Photography by polarized light; by J. W. McFarlane.—Measuring geologic time, its difficulties; by Alfred C. Lane.—Earth's interior, its nature and composition; by Leason H. Adams.—Origin of Great Lakes basins; by Francis P. Shepard.—Biography of ancient American lake [with selected bibliography]; by Wilmot H. Bradley.—Our water supply; by Oscar E. Meinzer.—First crossing of Antarctica; by Lincoln Ellsworth.— Moving photomicrography, by W. N. Kazeeff; [translation].—Freshwater fishes and West Indian zoogeography [with list of literature]; by George S. Myers.—Breeding habits of salmon and trout [with list of literature cited]; by Leonard P. Schultz.—What is entomology? by Lee A. Strong.—Maize, our heritage from the Indian; by J. H. Kempton.—Emergence of modern medicine from ancient folkways; by Walter C. Alvarez.— National and international standards for medicines; by E. Fullerton Cook.—Healing properties of allantoin and urea discovered through use of maggots in human wounds [with list of references]; by William Robinson.—Aims of Public Health Service; by Thomas Parran.—Excavations at Chanhu-daro by American School of Indie and Iranian Studies and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, season 1935-36; by Ernest Mackay.—Ras Shamra, Canaanite civilization and language [with short bibliography]; by Zellig S. Harris.—Blood-groups and race [with list of references], by J. Millot; [translation].— Early Chinese cultures and their development, new working-hypothesis, by Wolfram Eberhard; [translated by C. W. Bishop].—Origin and early diffusion of traction plow; by Carl Whiting Bishop.—Historical notes on cotton gin [with general works cited]; by F. L. Lewton.—World's longest bridge span; by Clifford E. Paine.—Index.
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