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  • Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution showing the operations, expenditures and condition of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1909
  • Contributor: Alexander, Boyd [Other]; Baggallay, Frank Thomas [Other]; Barrett, C.L. [Other]; Bell, Eleanor Yorke [Other]; Campbell, W.W. [Other]; Damas, David [Other]; De la Baume Pluvinel, H. [Other]; Douglas, James [Other]; Fleming, John Ambrose [Other]; Flexner, Simon [Other]; Franchet, Louis [Other]; Gaubert, Paul [Other]; Glangeand, Ph [Other]; Gold, E. [Other]; Grant, Madison [Other]; Haagner, Alwin [Other]; Harwood, W.A. [Other]; Johnston-Lavin, H.J. [Other]; MacCurdy, George Grant [Other]; Sedgwick, Adam [Other]; Weismann, August [Other]; Munroe, Charles Edward [Other]; Marotel, G. [Other]; Poincare, Henri [Other]; Washington, Henry Stephens [Other]; Marchis, L. [Other]; Zimmermann, Maurice [Other]; Stone, Ormond [Other]; Renard, Paul [Other]; Villey, Pierre [Other]; Minkiewicz, Romuald [Other]; Trotter, Spencer [Other]; Spalding, Volney Morgan [Other]; Ripley, William Zebina [Other]; Shackleton, Ernest Henry [Other]; Thomson, Joseph John [Other]; Willcocks, William [Other]
  • Corporation: Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents
  • imprint: Washington, DC, 1910
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  • Published in: United States congressional serial set ; serial set no. 5818
    House document / 61st Congress, 2nd session. House ; no. 112, pt. 1
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (761 p); color maps, illustrations, tables
  • Language: English
  • Reproductino series: U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
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  • Footnote: Albert Gaudry and the evolution of the animal kingdom, by Ph. Glangeand, p. 417
    An inquiry into the history of the current English names of North American land birds, by Spencer Trotter, p. 505
    Ceramic decoration: Its evolution and its applications, by Louis Franchet, p. 639
    Charles Darwin, by August Weismann, p. 431
    Condition of wild life in Alaska, by Madison Grant, p. 521
    Conservation of natural resources, by James Douglas, p. 317
    European population of the United States, by W.Z. Ripley, p. 585
    From the Niger, by Lake Chad, to the Nile, by Lieut. Boyd Alexander, p. 385
    Index, p. 739
    Intellectual work among the blind, by Pierre Villey, p. 683
    List of plates, p. VII
    Mesopotamia: Past, present, and future, by Sir William Willcocks, p. 401
    Natural resistance to infectious disease and its reinforcement, by Simon Flexner, p. 723
    Present problems in plant ecology: Problems of local distribution in arid regions, by Volney M. Spalding, p. 453
    Proceedings of the Board of Regents, p. 102
    Production of low temperatures, and refrigeration, by L. Marchis, p. 207
    Publication contains sections on many countries within the large regions indexed
    Recent discoveries bearing on the antiquity of man in Europe, by George Grant MacCurdy, p. 531
    Recent progress in physics, by Sir J.J. Thomson, p. 185
    Report of the Executive Committee, p. 97
    Report of the Secretary, p. 1
    Researches in radiotelegraphy, by J.A. Fleming, p. 157
    Simon Newcomb, by Ormond Stone, p. 237
    Solar radiation researches by Jules Cesar Janssen, by H. De la Baume Pluvinel, p. 243
    Some notes on Roman architecture, by F.T. Baggallay, p. 651
    Some remarks on the protective resemblance of South African birds, by Alwin Haagner, p. 493
    Some results of the British Antarctic expedition, 1907-9, by E.H. Shackleton, p. 355
    Table of contents, p. V
    The Antarctic land of Victoria, by Maurice Zimmermann, p. 331
    The Republic of Panama and its people, by Eleanor Yorke Bell, p. 607
    The distribution of the elements in igneous rocks, by Henry S. Washington, p. 279
    The formation, growth, and habit of crystals, by Paul Gaubert, p. 271
    The future of mathematics, by Henri Poincare, p. 123
    The instinct of self-concealment and the choice of colors in the crustacea, by Romuald Minkiewicz, p. 465
    The mechanism of volcanic action, by H.J. Johnston-Lavis, p. 305
    The nitrogen question from the military standpoint, by Charles E. Munroe, p. 225
    The oceanography of the Sea of Greenland, by D. Damas, p. 369
    The origin and development of parasitical habits in the Cuculidae, by C.L. Barrett, p. 487
    The relation of mosquitoes, flies, ticks, fleas, and other arthropods to pathology, by G. Marotel, p. 703
    The relation of science to human life, by Adam Sedgwick, p. 669
    The return of Halley's Comet, by W.W. Campbell, p. 253
    The upper air, by E. Gold and W.A. Harwood, p. 261
    What constitutes superiority in an airship, by Paul Renard, p. 141
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