• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1864
  • Contributor: Baegert, Jacob [Other]; Becquerel, Antoine Cesar [Other]; Delaunay, Charles [Other]; Duby, Jean-Etienne [Other]; Feilner, John [Other]; Fourier, Joseph [Other]; Gibbs, George [Other]; Hoy, P.R. [Other]; Jamin, Jules [Other]; Kirby, W.W. [Other]; Lamont, Johann von [Other]; Morlot, A. [Other]; Pettenkofer, Max [Other]; Plateau, Joseph Antoine Ferdinand [Other]; Rau, Charles [Other]; Troyon, Frederick [Other]; Von Karolyi, Lieutenant [Other]; Wetherill, Charles Mayer [Other]
  • Corporation: Smithsonian Institution ; Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents
  • imprint: Washington, DC, 1865
    Online-Ausg.: Chester, Vt: NewsBank, inc, 2005
  • Published in: United States congressional serial set ; serial set no. 1233
    Mis. doc. / 38th Congress, 2nd session. House ; no. 55
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (450 p); illustrations, maps, tables
  • Language: English
  • Reproductino series: U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Chester, Vt: NewsBank, inc, 2005
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  • Footnote: A journey to the Youcan, Russian America, by W.W Kirby, p. 416
    An account of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Californian peninsula, by Jacob Baegert, follows p. 377
    Artificial shell-deposits in New Jersey, by Charles Rau, follows p. 369
    Caoutchouc and gutta-percha follows p. 205
    Description of apparatus for testing the results of perspiration and respiration in the Physiological Institute at Munich, by Max Pettenkofer, follows p. 234
    Essay on the velocity of light, by M. Delaunay, follows p. 134
    Experimental and theoretical researches on the figures of equilibrium of a liquid mass withdrawn from the action of gravity, &c, by J. Plateau, follows p. 284
    Exploration in upper California in 1860, under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, by John Feilner, follows p. 420
    Extract of a memoir on the preservation of copper and iron in salt water, by M. Becquerel, follows p. 190
    Index follows p. 444
    Journal of an exploration of western Missouri in 1854, under auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, by P.R. Hoy, follows p. 430
    Journal of the proceedings of the Board of Regents follows p. 113
    List of meteorological stations and observers follows p. 100
    Memoir of Delambre, by Joseph Fourier, precedes p. 126
    On the Crania Helvetica, by Frederick Troyon, follows p. 281
    Ozone and antozone, by Charles M. Wetherill, follows p. 165
    Preservation of wood follows p. 195
    Prize questions follow p. 403
    Report of the Executive Committee follows p. 110
    Report of the Secretary follows p. 12
    Report of the transactions of the Society of Physics and Natural History of Geneva, 1861, by M. Duby, follows p. 260
    Scientific expedition to Mexico: A report addressed to the Emperor by the Minister of Public instruction follows p. 411
    Table of contents follows p. 442
    The first steps in the study of high antiquity in Europe, by A. Morlot, follows p. 399
    The intermixture of races, by George Gibbs, follows p. 374
    The products of the combustion of gun-cotton and gunpowder, by Lieutenant Von Karolyi, follows p. 220
    The solar eclipse of July 18, 1860, by J. Lamont, follows p. 239
    Vegetation and the atmosphere, by J. Jamin, follows p. 177
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