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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, 1953
Title
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, 1953. [electronic resource]
Published
Washington, DC, 1954
Physical Description
490 p. : illustrations, maps, tables.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Appendices, p. 14.
Applied systematics: The usefulness of scientific names of animals and plants, by Waldo L. Schmitt, p. 323.
Barro Colorado -- tropical island laboratory, by Lloyd Glenn Ingles, p. 361.
Charles Bird King, painter of Indian visitors to the nation's capital, by John C. Ewers, p. 463.
Climate and race, by Carleton Coon, p. 277.
Genetics and the world today, by Curt Stern, p. 263.
Index, p. 475.
Kinreizuka -- the "Golden Bells Tomb" of Japan, by Motosaburo Hirano and Hiroshi Takiguchi, p. 437.
List of plates, p. IV.
Norsemen in North America before Columbus, by Johannes Brondsted, p. 367.
Radioisotopes -- new keys to knowledge, by Paul C. Aebersold, p. 219.
Recent progress on astronomical photography, by C.E. Kenneth Mees, p. 205.
Science, art, and education, by R.E. Gibson, p. 169.
Table of contents, p. III.
The archeology of colonial Williamsburg, by Thomas J. Wertenbaker, p. 447.
The coelacanth fishes, by Errol White, p. 351.
The geological history and evolution of insects, by F.M. Carpenter, p. 339.
The mountain village of Dahr, Lebanon, by Raymond E. Crist, p. 407.
The problem of dating the Dead Sea Scrolls, by John C. Trever, p. 425.
The push-button factory, by Frank K. Shallenberger, p. 241.
The science of musical instruments, by E.G. Richardson, p. 253.
The story of the Declaration of Independence desk and how it came to the National Museum, by Margaret W. Brown, p. 455.
Vegetation management for rights-of-way and roadsides, by Frank E. Egler, p. 299.
Electronic reproduction. Chester, Vt.: NewsBank, inc., 2008. Available via the World Wide Web. Access restricted to Readex U.S. Congressional Serial Set subscribers.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 29, 2012
Series
House document / 83rd Congress, 2nd session. House ; no. 288
Subjects
Genre/Form
Annual Reports.
Monographs.
Also listed under
Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents.
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