Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ended June 30, 1941.
Publication Title:
Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ended June 30, 1941.
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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, 1941.
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1942
Publish Date ISO Format:
1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19420101
Publication End:
19421231
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Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1942
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SI 1.1:941
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xiii+596 p. il. 7 pl. 114 p. of pl.
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(Publication 3651.)
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(Publication 3651.) * For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Cloth, $2.00.
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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 reupnts of Smithsonian Institution.—What lies between stars; by Walter S. Adams.—Artificial converters of solar energy [with list of references]; by H. C. Hottel.—New frontiers in the atom; by Ernest O. Lawrence.—Science shaping American culture; by Arthur H. Compton.—Mathematics and the sciences; by J. W. Lasley, jr.—Role of science in electrical industry; by M. W. Smith.—New synthetic textile fibers; by Herbert R. Mauersberger.—Plastics; by Gordon M. Kline.—Vitamins and their occurrence in foods; by Hazel E. Munsell.—Science and human prospects [with list of references]; by Eliot Blatkwelder.—Iceland, land of frost and lire; by Vigfus Einarsson.—Genes and hope of mankind; by Bruce Bliven.—Cure of captive animals [with selected bibliography]; by Ernest P. Walker.—Influence of insects on development of forest protection and forest management [with list of literature cited]; by F. C. Craighead.—Growth hormones in plants [with bibliography]; by Kenneth V. Thimann.—Useful algae [with bibliography]; by Florence Meier Chase.—Excavations of Solomon's seaport, Ezion-geber; by Nelson Glurck.—Decipherment of linguistic portion of Maya hieroglyphs; by Benjamin Lee Whorf.—Contacts between Iroquois herbalism and colonial medicine; by William N. Fenton.—Study of Indian music; by Frances Densmore.—Snake bites and Hopi snake dance [with bibliography]; by M. W. Stilling.—Eskimo child; by Aleš Hrdlička.—Wings for transportation (recent developments in air transportation equipment); by Theodore P. Wright.—Index.
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