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, 1932.

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, 1932. [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, Alderman, Arthur Richard, Breasted, James Henry, Clausen, Curtis P. (Curtis Paul), Crawford, Osbert Guy Stanhope, Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Gilligan, Albert, Gould, Laurence McKinley, Graham, R.R, Hewitt, J.N.B. (John Napoleon Brinton), Iselin, C. O'D. (Columbus O'Donnell), Kaye, G.W.C. (George William Clarkson), Knopf, Adolph, 1882-1966, Lincoln, Frederick Charles, Mackay, Dorothy, Mayer, Edgar, Meier, Florence E., Robinson, L.V, Russell, Henry Norris, Seward, A.C. (Albert Charles), 1863-1941, Shippee, Robert, Wood, Casey A. (Casey Albert)
Format:	Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC, 1933.
Series:	United States congressional serial set ; serial set no. 9730. House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 72nd Congress, no. 421, pt. 1.
Subjects:	Freer Gallery of Art. Iroquois Indians. Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole MA) 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. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. Aerial photography. Age of the Earth. Agriculture. Algae. Animal flight. Animal migration. Anthropology. Archaeology. Astronomy. Birds. Discovery and exploration. Federal aid to museums. Federal receipts and expenditures. Fossils. Geography. Geology. History. Indian culture. Insect pests. Insects. Light. Meteorite craters. Museum acquisitions. Museums. Natural history collections. Noise. Observatories. Ocean bottom. Oceanography. Oceans and seas. Parasites. Physics. Prehistoric peoples. Radiation. Scientific apparatus and instruments. Stars. Sun. Trusts and trustees. Zoos. Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-1930) Humans. Indians. Women. Description and travel. Financial statements. Research. Antarctica. Atlantic Ocean. Australia. India. Kashmir. Mohenjo-Daro, Pakistan. National Zoological Park. Pakistan. Peru. Annual Reports. Monographs. Names Lists.

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Item Description:	Table of contents, p. V. Appendices, p. 15. Solar radiation, by C.G. Abbot, p. 107. Variable stars, by L.V. Robinson, p. 121. The master key of science: Revealing the universe through the spectroscope, by Henry Norris Russell, p. 133. The decline of determinism, by Sir Arthur Eddington, p. 141. The measurement of noise, by G.W.C. Kaye, p. 159. The age of the Earth and the age of the ocean, by Adolph Knopf, p. 193. A contribution to the geological history of the North Atlantic region, by Albert Gilligan, p. 207. The meteorite craters at Henbury, central Australia, by Arthur Richard Alderman, p. 223. Some geographical results of the Byrd Antarctic expedition, by Laurence M. Gould, p. 235. Some phases of modern deep-sea oceanography, with a description of some of the equipment and methods of the newly formed Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, by C. O'D. Iselin, II, p. 251. Safety devices in wings of birds, by Lieut. Commander R.R. Graham, p. 269. Through forest and jungle in Kashmir and other parts of north India, by Casey A. Wood, p. 307. A decade of bird banding in America: A review, by Frederick C. Lincoln, p. 327. Insect enemies of insects and their relation to agriculture, by Curtis P. Clausen, p. 353. Plant records of the rocks, by A.C. Seward, p. 363. Cultivating algae for scientific research, by Florence E. Meier, p. 373. The present status of light therapy: Scientific and practical aspects, by Edgar Mayer, p. 385. The rise of man and modern research, by James H. Breasted, p. 411. Mohenjo-Daro and the ancient civilization of the Indus Valley, by Dorothy Mackay, p. 429. Historical cycles, by O.G.S. Crawford, p. 445. The "great wall of Peru" and other aerial photographic studies by the Shippee-Johnson Peruvian expedition, by Robert Shippee, p. 461. Status of woman in Iroquois polity before 1784, by J.N.B. Hewitt, p. 475. Index, p. 489.
Physical Description:	510 p. : illustrations, maps, tables.