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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 ended June 30, 1941
  • Contributor: Adams, Walter S. [Other]; Blackwelder, Eliot [Other]; Bliven, Bruce [Other]; Chase, Florence Meier [Other]; Compton, Arthur H. [Other]; Craighead, F.C. [Other]; Densmore, Frances [Other]; Einarsson, Vigfus [Other]; Fenton, William N. [Other]; Glueck, Nelson [Other]; Hottel, Hoyt Clarke [Other]; Hrdlicka, Ales [Other]; Kline, Gordon M. [Other]; Lasley, John Wayne [Other]; Lawrence, Ernest O. [Other]; Mauersberger, Herbert R. [Other]; Munsell, Hazel E. [Other]; Smith, M.W. [Other]; Stirling, Matthew Williams [Other]; Whorf, Benjamin Lee [Other]; Walker, Ernest P. [Other]; Thimann, Kenneth V. [Other]; Wright, Theodore P. [Other]
  • Corporation: Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents
  • Published: Washington, DC, 1942
    Online-Ausg., Chester, Vt: NewsBank, inc, 2008
  • Published in: United States congressional serial set ; serial set no. 10742
    House document / 77th Congress, 2nd session. House ; no. 513, pt. 1
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (609 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, 2008
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  • Footnote: Appendices, p. 19
    Artificial converters of solar energy, by H.C. Hottel, p. 151
    Care of captive animals, by Ernest P. Walker, p. 305
    Contacts between Iroquois herbalism and colonial medicine, by William N. Fenton, p. 503
    Decipherment of the linguistic portion of the Maya hieroglyphs, by Benjamin Lee Whorf, p. 479
    Growth hormones in plants, by Kenneth V. Thimann, p. 393
    Iceland, land of frost and fire, by Vigfus Einarsson, p. 285
    Index, p. 585
    List of plates, p. VII
    Mathematics and the sciences, by J.W. Lasley, Jr., p. 183
    Plastics, by Gordon M. Kline, p. 225
    Science and human prospects, by Eliot Blackwelder, p. 267
    Science shaping American culture, by Arthur H. Compton, p. 175
    Snake bites and the Hopi snake dance, by M.W. Stirling, p. 551
    Table of contents, p. V
    The Eskimo child, by Ales Hrdlicka, p. 557
    The excavations of Solomon's seaport: Ezion-geber, by Nelson Glueck, p. 453
    The genes and the hope of mankind, by Bruce Bliven, p. 293
    The influence of insects on the development of forest protection and forest management, by F.C. Craighead, p. 367
    The new frontiers in the atom, by Ernest O. Lawrence, p. 163
    The new synthetic textile fibers, by Herbert R. Mauersberger, p. 211
    The role of science in the electrical industry, by M.W. Smith, p. 199
    The study of Indian music, by Frances Densmore, p. 527
    Useful algae, by Florence Meier Chase, p. 401
    Vitamins and their occurrence in foods, by Hazel E. Munsell, p. 239
    What lies between the stars, by Walter S. Adams, p. 141
    Wings for transportation (recent developments in air transportation equipment), by Theodore P. Wright, D.Sc., p. 563
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