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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, 1940
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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, 1940. [electronic resource]
Published
Washington, DC, 1942
Physical Description
525 p. : illustrations, maps, tables.
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Notes
A living fossil, by J.L.B. Smith, p. 321.
Animal behavior, by Ernest P. Walker, p. 271.
Appendices, p. 18.
Cultural values of physics, by David Dietz, p. 139.
Index, p. 501.
Insects and the spread of plant diseases, by Walter Carter, p. 329.
List of plates, p. VII.
Masked medicine societies of the Iroquois, by William N. Fenton, p. 397.
Nuclear fission, by Karl K. Darrow, p. 155.
Perspectives in evolution, by James Ritchie, M.A., D.Sc., p. 249.
Plant-tissue cultures, by Robert L. Weintraub, p. 357.
Prehistoric culture waves from Asia to America, by Diamond Jenness, p. 383.
Solar prominences in motion, by Robert R. McMath, p. 121.
Stonehenge: Today and yesterday, by Frank Stevens, O.B.E., F.S.A., p. 447.
Sulfanilamide and related chemicals in the treatment of infectious diseases, by Wesley W. Spink, M.D., p. 479.
Table of contents, p. V.
The beginnings of civilization in eastern Asia, by Carl Whiting Bishop, p. 431.
The botany and history of Zizania Aquatica L. ("wild rice"), by Charles E. Chambliss, p. 369.
The future of flying, by H.E. Wimperis, C.B., C.B.E., Hon. D. Eng. (Melb.), past president, Royal Aeronautical Society, p. 489.
The future of man as an inhabitant of the Earth, by Kirtley F. Mather, p. 215.
The Mexican bean beetle, by W.H. White, p. 343.
The national standards of measurement, by Lyman J. Briggs, p. 161.
The national wildlife refuge program of the Fish and Wildlife Service, by Ira N. Gabrielson, p. 313.
The rise of the organic chemical industry in the United States, by C.M.A. Stine, p. 177.
The rubber industry, 1839-1939, by W.A. Gibbons, p. 193.
The satellites of Jupiter, by Seth B. Nicholson, p. 131.
The search for oil, by G.M. Lees, p. 231.
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Format
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Language
English
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August 28, 2012
Series
House document / 77th Congress, 1st session. House ; no. 13, pt. 1
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Annual Reports.
Monographs.
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Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents.
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