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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, 1906 [electronic resource].

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Corporate Authors:	United States. Congress. House, Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
Other Authors:	Abbot, C. G. (Charles Greeley), 1872-1973, Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, Amundsen, Roald, Andrews, C.W, Blanchard, C. J. (Clarence John), 1863-, Blanchard, Raphael, Bugnion, E., Carhart, Henry S. (Henry Smith), Cuenot, Lucien, Curie, Marie, Derby, Orville A. (Orville Adelbert), Friederici, Georg, Himstedt, Franz, Huber, Jakob, Kemp, James Furman, Lacroix, A., Laurie, A.P. (Arthur Pillans), Leith, C.K. (Charles Kenneth), Lemaire, Eugene, Marconi, Guglielmo, Obermaier, Hugo, Pfizenmayer, Eugen Wilhelm, Radau, Hugo, Schuster, Arthur, Stefansson, Jon, Yermoloff, A., Zaborowski, S.
Format:	Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC, 1907.
Series:	House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 59th Congress, no. 575, pt. 1 & 2. United States congressional serial set ; serial set no. 5200.
Subjects:	Freer, Charles Lang. Johnston, Harriet Lane. Langley, S.P. (Samuel Pierpont) Yermoloff, A. National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.) National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution. > Board of Regents. Smithsonian Institution. > Bureau of American Ethnology. Smithsonian Institution. > International Exchange Service. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. Ants. Art. Astronomy. Atomic theory. Buffalo. Charitable contributions. Chemistry. Communicable diseases. Deserts and arid lands. Diamonds. Discovery and exploration. Electricity. Entomology. Ethnology. Eulogies. Federal aid to museums. Fossil hominids. Fossils. Genetics. Geodesy. Geology. Government publications. Insects. International cooperation. Iron. Irrigation. Libraries. Magnetism. Mammoths. Medicine. Mineralogical research. Mines and mineral resources. Museum acquisitions. Museums. Observatories. Painting. Paleontology. Parasites. Physics. Prehistoric animals. Prehistoric peoples. Radiation. Radio. Reclamation of land. Scalping. Scientific apparatus and instruments. Sun. Volcanoes. Zoology. Zoos. Eskimos. Indigenous peoples. Slavs. Financial statements. Arctic. Austria-Hungary (1867-1918) Bahia, Brazil. Caucasus Mountains. Egypt. France. Germany. Iceland. Italy. Mont Blanc. National Zoological Park. North Pole. Northwest Passage. Poland. Switzerland. Vesuvius. Annual Reports. Monographs.

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Item Description:	Publication contains discontinuous pagination. Pages listed in the Contents Note reflect printed page numbers within successive, separately paginated parts of the publication. Table of contents, p. V. List of plates, p. VII. Proceedings of the Board of Regents, p. XI. Report of the Executive Committee, p. XXIII. Report of the Secretary, page 1. Modern theories of electricity and matter, by Madame Curie, page 103. Radioactivity, by Franz Himstedt, page 117. Recent advances in wireless telegraphy, by G. Marconi, page 131. Revisions in the theory of electrolysis, by H.S. Carhart, page 147. Recent progress in astronomical research, by C.G. Abbot, page 161. Astronomy on Mont Blanc, by H. Radau, page 173. The problem of metalliferous veins, by James Furman Kemp, page 187. Iron ore reserves, by Charles Kenneth Leith, page 207. The geology of the diamond and carbonado washings of Bahia, Brazil, by Orville A. Derby, page 215. The eruption of Vesuvius in April, 1906, by A. Lacroix, page 223. To the North Magnetic Pole and through the Northwest Passage, by Roald Amundsen, page 249. Iceland: Its history and inhabitants, by Herr Jon Stefansson, page 275. The recently discovered Tertiary vertebrata of Egypt, by C.W. Andrews, page 295. Polyembryony and the determination of sex, by E. Bugnion, page 309. A contribution to the morphology of the mammoth, Elephas primigenius Blumenbach; with an explanation of my attempt at a restoration, by E. Pfizenmayer, page 321. Heredity, by L. Cuenot, page 335. The bisons of the Caucasus, by A. Yermoloff, page 345. The founding of colonies by Atta sexdens, by Jakob Huber, page 355. Quaternary human remains in central Europe, by Hugues [i.e., Hugo] Obermaier, page 373. The origin of the Slavs, by Professor Zaborowski, page 399. Scalping in America, by Georg Friederici, page 423. Zoology and medicine, by Raphael Blanchard, page 439. The role of chemistry in painting, by Eugene Lemaire, page 453. Oils, varnishes, and mediums used in the paintings of pictures, by A.P. Laurie, page 459. National reclamation of arid lands, by C.J. Blanchard, page 469. International science, by Arthur Schuster, page 493. Samuel Pierpont Langley, by Cyrus Adler, page 515. Index, page 535. Part 2: 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, 1906. Report of the National Museum, follows page 546. Table of contents, p. III.
Physical Description:	720 pages : illustrations, maps, tables.
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