Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ended June 30, 1938.
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Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ended June 30, 1938.
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Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ended June 30, 1938.
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1939
Publish Date ISO Format:
1939-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19390101
Publication End:
19391231
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Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1939
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SI 1.1:938
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xiii+608 p. il. 13 pl. 72 p. of pl. 2 maps.
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(Publication 3491.)
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(Publication 3491.) * For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Cloth, $1.50.
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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 conceptions of the universe and of matter; [translation] by Gabriel Louis-Jaray.—Nature of nebulae; by Edwin Hubble.—Sun and atmosphere; by Harlan T. Stetson.—Cosmic radiation; by P. M. S. Blackett.—World of change; by Edward R. Weidlein.—Transmutation of matter; by Lord Rutherford.—Science and the unobservable; by H. Dingle.—Some aspects of nuclear physics of possible interest in biological work; by L. A. DuBridge.—Electron theory; by R. G. Kloeffler.—Geology in national and everyday life; by George R. Mansfield.—Floor of ocean; by P. G. H. Boswell.—Ice ages; by George Simpson.—Soil erosion, growth of desert in Africa and elsewhere; by Daniel Hall.—Future of paleontology; by Joseph A. Cushman.—Meteorology of great floods in eastern United States; by Charles F. Brooks and Alfred H. Thiessen.—Eyes that shine at night; by Ernest P. Walker.—Chinese mitten crab; by A. Panning.—Biology of light production in anthropods [with list of literature cited]; by N. S. Rustum Maluf.—Black widow spider [with bibliography]; by Fred E. D'Amour, Frances E. Becker, and Walker Van Riper.—Language of bees; by K. von Frisch.—Forest genetics; by Lloyd Austin.—Story of maiden-hair tree; by Albert C. Seward.—Water-culture method for growing plants without soil; by D. R. Hoagland and D. I. Arnon.—Root-pressure, unappreciated force in sap movement [with list of references]; by Philip R. White.—Reproduction of virus proteins; by W. M. Stanley.—Modern medicine, crossroads of social and physical sciences; by Charles Austin Doan.—History and stratigraphy in Valley of Mexico; by George C. Vaillant.—Folsom problem in American archeology [with list of literature cited]; by Frank H. H. Roberts, jr.—Roman Orient and the Far East; by C. G. Seligman.—Ancient Chinese capital, earthworks at old Ch'ang-an; by Carl Whiting Bishop.—Natural limits to human flight, by H. E. Wimperis.—Historic American merchant marine survey; by Frank A. Taylor.—Index.
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