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, 1901

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Titel: 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, 1901

Körperschaft: Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents

Erschienen: Washington, DC, 1902
Online-Ausg., Chester, Vt: NewsBank, inc, 2006

Umfang: Online-Ressource (849 p); color maps, illustrations, tables

Sprache: Englisch

Reproduktionsreihe: U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980

Art der Reproduktion: Online-Ausg.

Hersteller der Reproduktion: Chester, Vt: NewsBank, inc, 2006

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Anmerkungen: "Kirchhoff, Alfred" and "Vries, Hugo de" are the authorized versions of the names according to the Library of Congress Name Authority File
A century of the study of meteorites, by Oliver C. Farrington, p. 193
A model of nature, by A.W. Rucker, p. 171
Act To Provide for Celebrating the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Purchase of the Louisiana Territory by the United States by Holding an International Exhibition of Arts, Industries, Manufactures, and the Products of the Soil, Mine, Forest, and Sea in the City of Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri (1901), p. LXI
Appendix to the Report of the Secretary, p. 53
Automobile races, by Henri Fournier and others, p. 593
Bogoslof volcanoes, by C. Hart Merriam, p. 367
Boomerangs, by Gilbert T. Walker, p. 515
Color photography, by Sir William J. Herschel, p. 313
Commemoration of Prof. Henry A. Rowland, by T.C. Mendenhall, p. 739
Emigrant diamonds in America, by William Herbert Hobbs, p. 359
Forest destruction, by Gifford Pinchot and C. Hart Merriam, p. 401
Index, p. 755
Irrigation, by F.H. Newell, p. 407
List of plates, p. VIII
Observations on termites, or white ants, by G.D. Haviland, p. 667
On bodies smaller than atoms, by J.J. Thomson, p. 231
On ether and gravitational matter through infinite space, by Lord Kelvin, p. 215
On the preservation of the marine animals of the Northwest coast, by William H. Dall, p. 683
Order of development of the primal shaping arts, by W.H. Holmes, p. 501
Proceedings of the Board of Regents, p. XIII
Recent studies in gravitation, by John H. Poynting, p. 199
Report of the Executive Committee, p. XXV
Report of the Secretary, p. 1
Salt and its physiological uses, by A. Dastre, p. 561
Santos-Dumont circling the Eiffel Tower in an air ship, by Eugene P. Lyle, Jr., p. 575
Solid hydrogen, by James Dewar, p. 251
Some private zoos, by F.G. Aflalo, p. 689
Some recent astronomical events, by C.G. Abbot, p. 153
Table of contents, p. V
The Abbott Collection from the Andaman Islands, by Lieut. W.E. Safford, p. 475
The Antarctic voyage of the Belgica during the years 1897, 1898, and 1899, by Henryk Arctowski, p. 377
The National Zoo at Washington: A study of its animals in relation to their natural environment, by Ernest Thompson Seton, p. 697
The Smithsonian Institution, p. 145
The aims of the National Physical Laboratory of Great Britain, by R.T. Glazebrook, p. 341
The children's room in the Smithsonian Institution, by Albert Bigelow Paine, p. 553
The development of illumination, by Walter Hough, p. 493
The dinosaurs, or terrible lizards, by F.A. Lucas, p. 641
The engraved pictures of the Grotto of La Mouthe, Dordogne, France, by Emile Riviere, p. 439
The erection of the Gokteik Bridge, by Day Allen Willey, p. 611
The exploration of the atmosphere at sea by means of kites, by A. Lawrence Rotch, p. 245
The fire walk ceremony in Tahiti, by S.P. Langley, p. 539
The great Alpine tunnels, by Francis Fox, p. 617
The greatest flying creature, by S.P. Langley, introducing a paper by F.A. Lucas on the great Pterodactyl ornithostoma, p. 649
The history of chronophotography, by Dr. J. Marey, p. 317
The laws of nature, by S.P. Langley, p. 545
The mind of primitive man, by Franz Boas, p. 451
The mutation theory of Professor de Vries, by Charles A. White, p. 631
The new radiations: Cathode rays and Rontgen rays, by A. Dastre, p. 271
The okapi: The newly discovered beast living in central Africa, by Sir Harry H. Johnston, p. 661
The palace of Minos, by Arthur J. Evans, p. 425
The possible improvement of the human breed under the existing conditions of law and sentiment, by Francis Galton, p. 523
The sea in the life of the nations, by Alfred Kirchoff, p. 389
The submarine boat, by Rear Admiral George W. Melville, p. 717
The telephonograph, by William J. Hammer, p. 307
The wanderings of the water buffalo, p. 679
Transatlantic telephoning, by William A. Anthony, p. 299
Traps of the American Indians: A study in psychology and invention, by Otis T. Mason, p. 461
Utilizing the sun's energy, by Robert H. Thurston, p. 263
Wireless telegraphy, by G. Marconi, p. 287
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