Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ended June 30, 1940.
Publication Title:
Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ended June 30, 1940.
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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, 1940.
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1941
Publish Date ISO Format:
1941-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19410101
Publication End:
19411231
Corporate/Agency Author:
Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1941
SuDoc number:
SI 1.1:940
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xiii+512 p. il. 9 pl. 98 p. of pl.
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(Publication 3606.)
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(Publication 3606.) * 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.—Solar prominences in motion; by Robert R. McMath.—Satellites of Jupiter; by Seth B. Nicholson.—Cultural values of physics [with bibliography]; by David Dietz.—Nuclear fission; by Karl K. Darrow—National standards of measurement [with bibliography]; by Lyman J. Briggs.—Rise of organic chemical industry in United States; by C. M. A. Stine.—Rubber industry. 1839-1939 [with list of literature cited]; by W. A. Gibbons.—Future of man as an inhabitant of the earth; by Kirtley F. Mather.—Search for oil; by G. M. Lees.—Perspectives in evolution [with list of references]; by James Ritchie.—Animal behavior; by Ernest P. Walker.—National wildlife refuge program of Fish and Wildlife Service; by Ira N. Gabrielson.—A living fossil (Latimeria chalumnae J. L. B. Smith); by J. L. B. Smith.—Insects and spread of plant diseases; by Walter Carter.—Mexican bean beetle; by W. H. White.—Plant-tissue cultures; by Robert L. Weintraub.—Botany and history of Zizania aquatica L. (wild rice); by Charles E. Chambliss.—Prehistoric culture waves from Asia to America; by Diamond Jenness.—Masked medicine societies of the Iroquois; by William N. Fenton.—Beginnings of civilization in eastern Asia; by Carl Whiting Bishop.—Stonehenge, today and yesterday. by Frank Stevens; with plans and illustrations by Heywood Sumner.—Sulfanilamide and related chemicals in treatment of infectious diseases; by Wesley W. Spink.—Future of flying; by H. E. Wimperis.—Index.
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