Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ending June 30, 1939.
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Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ending June 30, 1939.
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Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ending June 30, 1939.
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1940
Publish Date ISO Format:
1940-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19400101
Publication End:
19401231
Corporate/Agency Author:
Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1940
SuDoc number:
SI 1.1:939
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xiii+567 p. il. 9 pl. 130 p. of pl.
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(Publication 3555.)
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(Publication 3555.) * 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.—Is there life in other worlds? by H. Spencer Jones.—Use of solar energy for heating water; by F. A. Brooks.—Fringe of the sun, nebulium and coronium; by C. G. James.—Our knowledge of atomic nuclei; by G. P. Harnwell.—Spectroscopy in industry; by George R. Harrison.—Physical science in crime-detection laboratory; by J. Edgar Hoover.—Physical interpretation of weather [with list of references]; by Edgar W. Woolard.—Hurricanes into New England, meteorology of storm of Sept. 21, 1938; by Charles F. Brooks.—Humanity in geological perspective; by Herbert L. Hawkins.—Geologic exhibits in National Zoological Park; by R. S. Bassler.—Structure of the earth as revealed by seismology; by Ernest A. Hodgson.—Our petroleum supply [with list of literature cited]; by Hugh D. Miser.—Biologic balance on farm; by W. L. McAtee.—On frontier of British Guiana and Brazil; by H. Carington Smith.—Sea bird as individual, results of ringing experiments [with list of references]; by R. M. Lockley.—Birds and wind; by Neil T. McMillan.—Bookworms; by E. A. Back.—Problem of conserving rare native plants; by M. L. Fernald.—Plankton in Water supply [With bibliography]; by Florence B. Meier.—Trichinosis in swine and its relationship to public health [with list of references]; by Benjamin Schwartz.—Closing gap at Tepe Gawra; by E. A. Speiser.—Sun worship; by Herbert J. Spinden.—Use of soapstone by Indians of eastern United States; by David I. Bushnoil, jr.—Modern growth of totem pole on northwest const; by Marias Barbeau.—Historic American highways; by Albert C. Rose.—Modern trends in air transport; by W. F. Durand.—Story of Time Capsule [with complete list of contents]; by G. Edward Pendray.—Index.
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* For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Cloth, $1.50.