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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 ended June 30, 1938
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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 ended June 30, 1938. [electronic resource]
Published
Washington, DC, 1939
Physical Description
621 p. : illustrations, maps, tables.
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"Root-pressure" -- an unappreciated force in sap movement, by Philip R. White, p. 489.
A world of change, by Edward R. Weidlein, p. 187.
An ancient Chinese capital: Earthworks at Old Ch'ang-an, by Carl Whiting Bishop, p. 569.
Appendices, p. 17.
Cosmic radiation, by P.M.S. Blackett, p. 175.
Electron theory, by R.G. Kloeffler, p. 241.
Eyes that shine at night, by Ernest P. Walker, p. 349.
Forest genetics, by Lloyd Austin, p. 433.
Geology in national and everyday life, by George R. Mansfield, p. 257.
History and stratigraphy in the Valley of Mexico, by George C. Vaillant, p. 521.
Ice ages, by Sir George Simpson, p. 289.
Index, p. 601.
Modern medicine -- the crossroads of the social and the physical sciences, by Charles Austin Doan, p. 511.
New conceptions of the universe and of matter, by Gabriel Louis-Jaray, p. 129.
Science and the unobservable, by H. Dingle, p. 209.
Soil erosion: The growth of the desert in Africa and elsewhere, by Sir Daniel Hall, p. 303.
Some aspects of nuclear physics of possible interest in biological work, by L.A. DuBridge, p. 227.
Table of contents, p. V.
The biology of light-production in arthropods, by N.S. Rustum Maluf, p. 377.
The black widow spider, by Fred E. D'Amour, Frances E. Becker, and Walker van Riper, p. 405.
The Chinese mitten crab, by A. Panning, p. 361.
The floor of the ocean, by P.G.H. Boswell, p. 275.
The Folsom problem in American archeology, by Frank H.H. Roberts, Jr., p. 531.
The future of paleontology, by Joseph A. Cushman, p. 317.
The historic American merchant marine, by Frank A. Taylor, p. 595.
The language of bees, by K. von Frisch, p. 423.
The meteorology of great floods in the eastern United States, by Charles F. Brooks and Alfred H. Thiessen, p. 325.
The natural limits to human flight, by H.E. Wimperis, p. 579.
The nature of the nebulae, by Edwin Hubble, p. 137.
The reproduction of virus proteins, by W.M. Stanley, p. 499.
The Roman Orient and the Far East, by C.G. Seligman, p. 547.
The story of the maidenhair tree, by Sir Albert C. Seward, p. 441.
The sun and the atmosphere, by Harlan T. Stetson, p. 149.
The water-culture method for growing plants without soil, by D.R. Hoagland and D.I. Arnon, p. 461.
Transmutation of matter, by Lord Rutherford, p. 201.
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Language
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August 28, 2012
Series
House document / 76th Congress, 1st session. House ; no. 13, pt. 1
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Annual Reports.
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Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents.
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