Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ended June 30, 1943.
Publication Title:
Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ended June 30, 1943.
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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, 1943.
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1944
Publish Date ISO Format:
1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19440101
Publication End:
19441231
Corporate/Agency Author:
Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1944
SuDoc number:
SI 1.1:943
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xi+609 p. il. 5 pl. 136 p. of pl. 2 maps.
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(Publication 3741).
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(Publication 3741). * For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Cloth, $2.00. • 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 resents of Smithsonian Institution.—Solar radiation as power source; by C. G. Abbot.—Some biological effects of solar radiation; by Brian O'Brien.—Sea as a storehouse; by E. F. Armstrong.—Progress in now synthetic textile fibers; by Herbert R. Mauersberser.—Petroleum geolosy [with list of works to which reference is made]; by William B. Heroy.—1942 eruption of Manna Loa, Hawaii; by Gordon A. Macdonald.—New metals and new methods; by C. H. Desch.—Oceanography [with bibliography]; by Henry C. Stetson.—Ocean current called The Child; by Eliot G. Mears.—Maps, strategy, and world politics; by Richard Edes Harrison and Robert Strausz-Hupé.—Natural-history background of camouflage; by Herbert Friedmann.—Dangerous reptiles [with selected bibliography]; by Doris M. Cochran.—Plants of China and their usefulness to man [with Selected bibliography of general works on Chinese plants]; by Egbert H. Walker.—Natural rubber [with Selected list of previous publications relating to rubber or to growth disorders of plants]; by O. F. Cook.—Lessons from the Old World to the Americas in land use [with list of literature cited]; by Walter Clay Lowdermilk.—Areal and temporal aspects of aboriginal South American culture [with bibliography]; by John M. Cooper.—Origin of Far Eastern civilizations, brief handbook [with references and selected bibliography]; by Carl Whiting Bishop.—Contours of culture in Indonesia; by Raymond Kennedy.—Arab village community of the Middle East; by Afif I. Tannous.—Chemotherapeutic agents from microbes; by Robert L. Weintraub.—Sulfonamides in treatment of war wounds and burns; by Charles L. Fox, jr.—Yellow fever situation in the Americas [with list of literature cited]; by Wilbur A. Sawyer.—Some food problems in wartime [with list of references]; by George R. Cowgill.—Index.
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* For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Cloth, $2.00. • Sent to Depository Libraries. Item 995