• 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 1874
  • Contributor: Anderson, W. [Other]; Arago, Francois [Other]; Bryan, Oliver N. [Other]; Candolle, Alphonse de [Other]; Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de [Other]; Cushing, Frank Hamilton [Other]; Davis, A.C. [Other]; Du Pre, Warren [Other]; Dumas, Jean-Baptiste [Other]; Farquharson, R.J. [Other]; Haile, Joshua [Other]; Henry, Joseph [Other]; Hilgard, Julius Erasmus [Other]; Hill, George W. [Other]; King, W.M. [Other]; Kron, F.J. [Other]; La Rive, Auguste de [Other]; Lemstrom, Selim [Other]; Mailly, Ed [Other]; Morin, Arthur Jules [Other]; Mitchell, Augustus [Other]; Schott, Charles Anthony [Other]; Smith, J.W.C. [Other]; Schumacher, Paul [Other]; Robertson, R.S. [Other]; McWhorter, Tyler [Other]; Pratt, William Henry [Other]
  • Corporation: Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents
  • Published: Washington, DC, 1875
    Online-Ausg., Chester, Vt: NewsBank, inc, 2005
  • Published in: United States congressional serial set ; serial set no. 1654
    Mis. doc. / 43rd Congress, 2nd session. House ; no. 56
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (416 p); illustrations, maps, tables
  • Language: English
  • Reproduction 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 study of skulls and long bones, from mounds near Albany, Illinois, by R.J. Farquharson, p. 361
    Account of the burial of an Indian squaw, San Bernardino County, California, May, 1874, by W.M. King, p. 350
    Ancient graves and shell-heaps of California, by Paul Schumacher, follows p. 334
    Ancient mounds of Mercer County, Illinois, by Tyler McWhorter, p. 351
    Antiquities of Allen and De Kalb Counties, Indiana, by R.S. Robertson, p. 380
    Antiquities of Blount County, Tennessee, by Annie E. Law, p. 375
    Antiquities of Charles County, Maryland, by Oliver N. Bryan, p. 387
    Antiquities of Florida, by Augustus Mitchell, p. 390
    Antiquities of Florida, by John Bartram, p. 393
    Antiquities of Isle Royale, Lake Superior, by A.C. Davis, p. 369
    Antiquities of Jackson County, Tennessee, by Joshua Haile, p. 384
    Antiquities of La Porte County, Indiana, by R.S. Robertson, p. 377
    Antiquities of Orleans County, New York, by Frank H. Cushing, p. 375
    Antiquities of Perry County, Ohio, by W. Anderson, p. 386
    Antiquities of Stanley and Montgomery Counties, North Carolina, by F.J. Kron, p. 389
    Antiquities of Tennessee, by Daniel F. Wright, p. 371
    Antiquities of Yazoo County, Mississippi, by J.W.C. Smith, p. 370
    Antiquities of northern Ohio, by George W. Hill, p. 364
    Appendix to the Report of the Secretary follows p. 48
    Eulogy on Arthur Auguste de La Rive, by M. Dumas, follows p. 183
    Index precedes p. 402
    Journal of proceedings of the Board of Regents follows p. 123
    Laplace, by Arago, follows p. 128
    List of illustrations follows p. 398
    Observations upon the electricity of the atmosphere and the Aurora Borealis made during the Swedish expedition of 1868 to the North Pole, by Selim Lemstrom, follows p. 226
    On a dominant language for science, by Alphonse de Candolle, follows p. 238
    On a series of earthquakes in North Carolina, commencing on 10th February, 1874, by Warren Du Pre, follows p. 253
    On underground temperature, by Charles A. Schott and Professor Everett, follows p. 248
    Quetelet, by Ed. Mailly, follows p. 168
    Report of the Executive Committee follows p. 117
    Report of the Secretary precedes p. 8
    Report of the transactions of the Society of Physics and Natural History, of Geneva, from June, 1872 to June, 1873, by A. de La Rive, follows p. 260
    Table of contents of Report for 1874 follows two pages after p. 393
    The age of stone, and the Troglodytes of Breckinridge County, Kentucky, by R.S. Robertson, p. 367
    The shell-bed skull, by A.S. Tiffany, p. 363
    Tides and tidal action in harbors, by J.E. Hilgard, precedes p. 208
    Warming and ventilation, by Arthur Morin, follows p. 271
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