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.

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. [electronic resource]

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Corporate Authors:	United States. Congress. House, Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
Other Authors:	Affel, H.A, Dart, Raymond A., DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994, Ewers, John C. (John Canfield), 1909-1997, Friedmann, Herbert, Glass, Bentley, Griffenhagan, George B., Hughes, Calvin H., Hunsaker, Jerome C. (Jerome Clarke), 1886-1984, Jones, H. Spencer (Harold Spencer), 1890-1960, Matthews, L. Harrison, Opik, E.J, Pendleton, Robert L., Penfield, Wilder, Ribbands, Ronald, Schneirla, T.C, Schulman, Edmund, Schwartz, Benjamin, Smyth, Henry D., Stanley, Wendell M. (Wendell Meredith), 1904-1971
Format:	Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC, 1956.
Series:	United States congressional serial set ; serial set no. 11946. House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 84th Congress, no. 249, pt. 1.
Subjects:	Catlin, George. Freer Gallery of Art. National Air and Space Museum. National Gallery of Art (U.S.) National Museum of American Art (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. Aeronautics. Agriculture. Ants. Art. Artists. Astronomy. Bees. Brain. Dodo. Ethnology. Federal aid to museums. Federal receipts and expenditures. Fossil hominids. Genetics. Heart disease. Laboratories. Mammals. Medical instruments and apparatus. Museum acquisitions. Museum exhibits. Museums. Natural history collections. Nuclear energy. Nuclear power plants. Observatories. Parasites. Science. Soils. Solar energy. Sun. Telecommunication lines. Telephone. Trees. Trusts and trustees. Viruses. Zoos. Financial statements. Research. Canal Zone Biological Area. National Zoological Park. South Africa.

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Item Description:	Table of contents, p. III. List of plates, p. IV. Appendex, p. 175. Science serving the nation, by Lee A. DuBridge, p. 177. The development of nuclear power for peaceful purposes, by Henry D. Smyth, p. 189. The time scale of our universe, by E.J. Opik, p. 203. Solar activity and its terrestrial effects, by Sir Harold Spencer Jones, p. 227. Forty years of aeronautical research, by J.C. Hunsaker, p. 241. A transatlantic telephone cable, by H.A. Affel, p. 273. Genetics in the service of man, by Bentley Glass, p. 299. Cultural status of the South African man-apes, by Raymond A. Dart, p. 317. The history of the mechanical heart, by George B. Griffenhagen and Calvin H. Hughes, p. 339. Some chemical studies on viruses, by Wendell M. Stanley, p. 357. The scent language of honey bees, by Ronald Ribbands, p. 369. The army ants, by T.C. Schneirla, p. 379. The hibernation of mammals, by L. Harrison Matthews, p. 407. Parasites common to animals and man, by Benjamin Schwartz, p. 419. Some observations on the functional organization of the human brain, by Wilder Penfield, p. 433. The place of tropical soils in feeding the world, by Robert L. Pendleton, p. 441. Tree rings and history in the western United States, by Edmund Schulman, p. 459. New light on the dodo and its illustrators, by Herbert Friedmann, p. 475. George Catlin, painter of Indians and the West, by John C. Ewers, p. 483. Index, p. 529.
Physical Description:	546 p. : illustrations, maps, tables.
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