Reports. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ended June 30, 1944.
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Reports. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ended June 30, 1944.
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Reports. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution showing operations, expenditures, and condition of Institution, year ended June 30, 1944.
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1945
Publish Date ISO Format:
1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19450101
Publication End:
19451231
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Smithsonian Institution
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1945
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SI 1.1:944
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ix+503 p. il. 5 pl. 36 p. of pl.
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(Publication 3776.)
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(Publication 3776.) * 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.—Solar variation and weather; by Charles G. Abbot.—Astronomy in a world at war; by A. Vibert Douglas.—Structure of the universe; by Claude William Heaps.—Industrial science looks ahead; by David Sarnoff.—New microscopes [with bibliography]; by R. E. Seidel and M. Elizabeth Winter.—Radio acoustic ranging (R. A. R.); by K. T. Adams.—David W. Taylor Model Basin; by Herbert S. Howard.—Research for aeronautics, its planning and application; by W. S. Farren.—Human limits in flight; by Bryan H. C. Matthews.—Trans-Arctic aviation; by Elmer Plischke.—Our petroleum resources [with list of references]; by Wallace E. Pratt.—Woods and trees, philosophical implications of some facts of science; by Frederick H. Krecker.—Biolojry and medicine; by Asa Crawford Chandler.—Locust plague; by B. P. Uvarov.—Codling moth [with list of literature cited]; by B. A. Porter.—Grassland and farmland as factors in cyclical development of Eurasian history; by J. Russell Smith.—Southern Arabia, problem for the future [with list of references cited]; by Carleton S. Coon.—New World paleo-Indian [with list of literature cited]; by Frank H. H. Roberts, jr.—Easter Island; by Alfred Métraux.—Brain rhythms; by E. D. Adrian.—Development of penicillin in medicine; by H. W. Florey and E. Chain.—Recent advances in anaesthesia [with list of references]; by John C. Krantz, jr.—Aspects of epidemiology of tuberculosis [with list of references]; by Leland W. Parr.—Index.
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* For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Cloth, $1.50 • Sent to Depository Libraries. Item 995