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Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution to July, 1897
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Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution to July, 1897. [electronic resource]
Published
Washington, DC, 1898
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733 p. : color maps, illustrations, tables.
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A new group of stone implements from the southern shores of Lake Michigan, by W.A. Phillips, p. 587.
A preliminary account of archaeological field work in Arizona in 1897, by J. Walter Fewkes, p. 601.
A study of the Omaha tribe: The import of the totem, by Alice C. Fletcher, p. 577.
Act To Aid and Encourage the Holding of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition at Nashville, Tennessee, in the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-seven and Making an Appropriation Therefor (1896), p. XLV.
An undiscovered gas, by William Ramsay, p. 247.
Appendix to the Report of the Secretary, p. 29.
Aspects of American astronomy, by Simon Newcomb, p. 85.
Botanical opportunity, by William Trelease, p. 519.
Cathode rays, by J.J. Thomson, p. 157.
Crater Lake, Oregon, by J.S. Diller, p. 369.
Diamonds, by William Crookes, p. 219.
Electrical advance in the past ten years, by Elihu Thomson, p. 125.
Explorations of the upper atmosphere, by Henri de Graffigny, p. 301.
Fluorine, by Henri Moissan, p. 259.
Francis Amasa Walker, by George F. Hoar and Carroll D. Wright, p. 635.
George Brown Goode, by S.P. Langley, p. 633.
Index, p. 655.
Journal of the proceedings of the Board of Regents, p. XI.
Letters from the Andree Party, p. 401.
Life history studies of animals, by L.C. Miall, p. 483.
Light, and its artificial production, by O. Lummer, p. 273.
List of illustrations, p. VIII.
Mescal: A new artificial paradise, by Havelock Ellis, p. 537.
On soaring flight, by E.C. Huffaker, p. 183.
Recent progress in physiology, by Michael Foster, p. 437.
Recent research in Egypt, by W.M. Flinders-Petrie, p. 571.
Report of the Executive Committee, p. XVII.
Report of the Secretary, p. 1.
Rising of the land around Hudson Bay, by Robert Bell, p. 359.
Scientific advantages of an Antarctic expedition, by John Murray and others, p. 413.
Story of experiments in mechanical flight, by S.P. Langley, p. 169.
Table of contents, p. V.
The age of the Earth as an abode fitted for life, by Lord Kelvin, p. 337.
The beginnings of American astronomy, by Edward S. Holden, p. 101.
The building for the Library of Congress, by Bernard R. Green, p. 625.
The debt of the world to pure science, by John J. Stevenson, p. 325.
The discovery of new elements within the last twenty-five years, by Clemens Winkler, p. 237.
The evolution of satellites, by G.H. Darwin, p. 109.
The exploration of the free air by means of kites at Blue Hill Observatory, by A. Lawrence Rotch, p. 317.
The factors of organic evolution from a botanical standpoint, by L.H. Bailey, p. 453.
The function and field of geography, by J. Scott Keltie, p. 381.
The law which underlies protective coloration, by Abbott H. Thayer, p. 477.
The revival of alchemy, by H.C. Bolton, p. 207.
The Royal Menagerie of France and the National Menagerie, established on the 14th of Brumaire, of the year II (November 4, 1793), by E.T. Hamy, p. 507.
The unity of the human species, by Marquis de Nadaillac, p. 549.
The X-rays, by W.C. Rontgen [i.e., Roentgen], p. 137.
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August 21, 2012
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House document / 55th Congress, 2nd session. House ; no. 575, pt. 1
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