• 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 ending June 30, 1924
  • Contributor: Beclere, Antoine [Other]; Berry, Edward R. [Other]; Breasted, James Henry [Other]; Bushnell, David Ives [Other]; Casanowicz, Immanuel Moses [Other]; Herrick, Francis Hobart [Other]; Hitchcock, Albert Spear [Other]; Hollister, Ned [Other]; Jeans, James Hopwood [Other]; Jones, R.L. [Other]; Millikan, R.S. [Other]; Mortensen, Th [Other]; Newberry, P.E. [Other]; Ramsay, Wilhelm [Other]; Rutherford, Ernest [Other]; Schmidt, Johannes [Other]; Snodgrass, R.E. [Other]; Standley, Paul Carpenter [Other]; Termier, Pierre [Other]; Wood, Casey Albert [Other]; Waterman, Thomas Talbot [Other]; Whitney, W.R. [Other]
  • Corporation: Smithsonian Institution ; Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents
  • imprint: Washington, DC, 1925
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  • Published in: United States congressional serial set ; serial set no. 8512
    House document / 68th Congress, 2nd session. House ; no. 448, pt. 1
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (549 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, 2007
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  • Footnote: A botanical trip to Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, by A.S. Hitchcock, p. 335
    A modern menagerie: More about the National Zoological Park, by N. Hollister, p. 249
    Appendix, p. 27
    Cankerworms, by R.E. Snodgrass, p. 317
    Clear fused quartz made in the electric furnace, by Edward R. Berry, p. 213
    Egypt as a field for anthropological research, by Prof. P.E. Newberry, p. 435
    Herluf Winge, by Th. Mortensen, p. 513
    Historical tradition and oriental research, by James Henry Breasted, p. 409
    Index, p. 523
    John Mix Stanley, artist-explorer, by David I. Bushnell, p. 507
    Nests and nesting habits of the American eagle, by Francis H. Herrick, p. 263
    North American Indian dwellings, by T.T. Waterman, p. 461
    Orchid collecting in Central America, by Paul C. Standley, p. 353
    Shamanism of the natives of Siberia, by I.M. Casanowicz, p. 415
    Sketches from the notebook of a naturalist-traveler in Oceania during the year 1923, by Casey A. Wood, p. 379
    Table of contents, p. V
    The breeding places of the eel, by Johs. Schmidt, p. 279
    The drifting of the continents, by Pierre Termier, p. 219
    The electrical structure of matter, by Prof. Sir Ernest Rutherford, p. 161
    The nature of language, by R.L. Jones, p. 487
    The origin of the solar system, by J.H. Jeans, p. 139
    The physicist's present conception of an atom, by R.S. Millikan, p. 187
    The probable solution of the climatic problem in geology, by William Ramsay, p. 237
    The use of radium in medicine, by Antoine Beclere, p. 207
    The vacuum -- there's something in it, by W.R. Whitney, p. 193
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