• 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 ended June 30, 1955
  • Contributor: Affel, H.A. [Other]; Dart, Raymond A. [Other]; DuBridge, Lee A. [Other]; Ewers, John Canfield [Other]; Friedmann, Herbert [Other]; Glass, Bentley [Other]; Griffenhagan, George B. [Other]; Hughes, Calvin H. [Other]; Hunsaker, Jerome Clarke [Other]; Jones, Harold Spencer [Other]; Matthews, L. Harrison [Other]; Opik, E.J. [Other]; Pendleton, Robert L. [Other]; Penfield, Wilder [Other]; Ribbands, Ronald [Other]; Schneirla, T.C. [Other]; Schulman, Edmund [Other]; Schwartz, Benjamin [Other]; Smyth, Henry D. [Other]; Stanley, Wendell Meredith [Other]
  • Corporation: Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents
  • imprint: Washington, DC, 1956
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  • Published in: United States congressional serial set ; serial set no. 11946
    House document / 84th Congress, 2nd session. House ; no. 249, pt. 1
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (546 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, 2008
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  • Footnote: A transatlantic telephone cable, by H.A. Affel, p. 273
    Appendex, p. 175
    Cultural status of the South African man-apes, by Raymond A. Dart, p. 317
    Forty years of aeronautical research, by J.C. Hunsaker, p. 241
    Genetics in the service of man, by Bentley Glass, p. 299
    George Catlin, painter of Indians and the West, by John C. Ewers, p. 483
    Index, p. 529
    List of plates, p. IV
    New light on the dodo and its illustrators, by Herbert Friedmann, p. 475
    Parasites common to animals and man, by Benjamin Schwartz, p. 419
    Science serving the nation, by Lee A. DuBridge, p. 177
    Solar activity and its terrestrial effects, by Sir Harold Spencer Jones, p. 227
    Some chemical studies on viruses, by Wendell M. Stanley, p. 357
    Some observations on the functional organization of the human brain, by Wilder Penfield, p. 433
    Table of contents, p. III
    The army ants, by T.C. Schneirla, p. 379
    The development of nuclear power for peaceful purposes, by Henry D. Smyth, p. 189
    The hibernation of mammals, by L. Harrison Matthews, p. 407
    The history of the mechanical heart, by George B. Griffenhagen and Calvin H. Hughes, p. 339
    The place of tropical soils in feeding the world, by Robert L. Pendleton, p. 441
    The scent language of honey bees, by Ronald Ribbands, p. 369
    The time scale of our universe, by E.J. Opik, p. 203
    Tree rings and history in the western United States, by Edmund Schulman, p. 459
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