Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ended June 30, 1942.
Publication Title:
Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ended June 30, 1942.
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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, 1942.
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1943
Publish Date ISO Format:
1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19430101
Publication End:
19431231
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Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1943
SuDoc number:
SI 1.1:942
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xiii+421 p. il. 3 pl. 80 p. of pl.
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(Publication 3705.)
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(Publication 3705.) * For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Cloth, $1.50. • Sent to Depository Libraries. Item 995
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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.—1914 tests of Langley aerodrome; by C. G. Abbot.—Problem of the expanding universe [with list of references]; by Edwin Hubble.—Galaxies; by Harlow Shapley.—Is there life on the other worlds? by Sir James Jeans.—Solar radiation and state of atmosphere [with list of references]; by Harlan True Stetson.—The sun and the earth's magnetic field [with list of Recent literature pertaining to the sun and the earth's magnetism]; by J. A. Fleming.—Ultraviolet light as sanitary aid; by Louis Gershenfeld.—Trends in petroleum geology; by A. I. Levorsen.—Meteorites and their metallic constituents; by B. P. Henderson and Stuart H. Perry.—Philippine tektites and tektite problem in general [with list of references]; by H. Otley Beyer.—Chemical properties of viruses; by W. M. Stanley.—Industrial development of synthetic vitamins; by Randolph T. Major.—Nutritional requirements of man [with list of references]; by C. A. Elvehjem.—Past and present status of marine mammals of South America and West Indies [with list of literature cited 1; by Remington Kellogg.—Return of musk ox; by Stanley P. Young.—Insect enemies of our cereal crops; by C. M. Packard.—Geographical aspects of malaria [with list of references]; by Sir Malcolm Watson.—Bromeliads of Brazil; by Mulford B. Foster.—Canada's Indian problems; by Diamond Jenness.—Dakar and other Cape Verde settlements; by Derwent Whittlesey.—Index.
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* For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Cloth, $1.50. • Sent to Depository Libraries. Item 995