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Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1898
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Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1898. [electronic resource]
Published
Washington, DC, 1899
Physical Description
768 p. : color maps, illustrations, tables.
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A sketch of Babylonian society, by F.E. Peiser, p. 579.
Dogs and savages, by B. Langkavel, p. 651.
Funafuti: The story of a coral atoll, by W.J. Sollas, p. 389.
Index, p. 697.
Joint Resolution Accepting the Invitation of the Government of Norway To Take Part in an International Fisheries Exposition To Be Held at the City of Bergen, Norway, from May to September, Anno Domini Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-eight (1898), p. L.
Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury To Rent Lighting Apparatus for Government Building at Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition (1898), p. LII.
Joint Resolution Extending the Limit of Cost of the Government Building or Buildings at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition at Omaha, Nebraska, and Reducing Cost of Government Exhibit (1897), p. LII.
Joint Resolution Regarding the Holding of a Pan-American Exposition in the Year Nineteen Hundred and One upon Cayuga Island, between the Cities of Buffalo and Niagara Falls, in the State of New York, To Illustrate the Development of the Western Hemisphere during the Nineteenth Century (1898), p. LIV.
Joint Resolution To Fill Vacancies in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution (1898), p. XLV.
Journal of the proceedings of the Board of Regents, p. XI.
List of illustrations, p. VIII.
Modification of the Great Lakes by earth movement, by G.K. Gilbert, p. 349.
Note on the liquefaction of hydrogen and helium, by James Dewar, p. 259.
Oceanography, by J. Thoulet, p. 407.
On our present knowledge of the origin of man, by Ernst Haeckel, p. 461.
Pithecanthropus erectus: A form from the ancestral stock of mankind, by Eugene Dubois, p. 445.
Progress in color photography, by G.H. Niewenglowski, p. 209.
Recent advances in science, and their bearing on medicine and surgery, by R. Virchow, p. 571.
Recent progress accomplished by aid of photography in the study of the lunar surface, by M.M. Loewy and Puiseux, p. 105.
Report of the Executive Committee, p. XVII.
Report of the Secretary, p. 1.
Scientific ballooning, by John M. Bacon, p. 307.
Signaling through space without wires, by W.H. Preece, p. 249.
Some curiosities of vision, by Shelford Bidwell, p. 197.
Table of contents, p. V.
Telegraphy across space, by Silvanus P. Thompson, p. 235.
The chemistry of the stars, by Norman Lockyer, p. 167.
The development of electrical science, by Thomas Gray, p. 217.
The economic status of insects as a class, by L.O. Howard, p. 551.
The excavations of Carthage, by Philippe Berger, p. 601.
The extreme infra-red radiations, by C.E. Guillaume, p. 161.
The fresh water biological stations of the world, by Henry B. Ward, p. 499.
The function of large telescopes, by George E. Hale, p. 123.
The kinetic theory of gases and some of its consequences, by William Ramsay, p. 277.
The laws of orientation among animals, by G. Reynaud, by 481.
The Le Sage Theory of gravitation, by M. Le Sage, with introduction by S.P. Langley, p. 139.
The life and works of Brown-Sequard, by M. Berthelot, p. 677.
The origin of African civilizations, by L. Frobenius, p. 637.
The past progress and present position of the anthropological sciences, by E.W. Brabrook, p. 621.
The perception of light and color, by George Lechalas, p. 179.
The plan of the Earth and its causes, by J.W. Gregory, p. 363.
The recently discovered gases and their relation to the periodic law, by William Ramsay, p. 267.
The relation of plant physiology to the other sciences, by Julius Wiesner, p. 427.
The revival of inorganic chemistry, by H.N. Stokes, p. 289.
The theory of energy and the living world; the physiology of alimentation, by A. Dastre, p. 515.
The transportation and lifting of heavy bodies by the ancients, by J. Elfreth Watkins, p. 615.
The tundras and steppes of prehistoric Europe, by James Geikie, p. 321.
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August 21, 2012
Series
House document / 55th Congress, 3rd session. House ; no. 309, pt. 1
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Annual Reports.
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