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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 ended June 30, 1952. [electronic resource]

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Corporate Authors:	United States. Congress. House, Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
Other Authors:	Adams, Roger, Clark, Austin H., Colbert, Leo Otis, Densmore, Frances, Flint, Richard Foster, 1902-1976, Gurney, Ashley B. (Ashley Buell), Hopkins, D.P, Ishikawa, Toshio, Lesher, Samuel W., Minakami, Takeshi, Ratcliffe, J.A. (John Ashworth), Roofe, Paul Gibbons, Schwartz, Benjamin, Smith, Lyman B., Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale), 1901-1997, Swann, W.F.G. (William Francis Gray), Van Cleave, Harley Jones, 1886-1953, Walker, Egbert H., Welch, Henry, Yahi, Kenzo
Format:	Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC, 1953.
Series:	United States congressional serial set ; serial set no. 11698-1. House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 83rd Congress, no. 9, pt. 1.
Subjects:	Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865. 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. Anatomy and physiology. Animal diseases. Animals. Antibiotics. Astronomy. Botany. Chemicals. Engineering. Evolution. Federal aid to museums. Federal receipts and expenditures. Grasshoppers. Ice ages. Indian culture. Livestock. Malaria. Medical care. Mines and mineral resources. Moon. Museum acquisitions. Museum exhibits. Museums. Music. Natural history collections. Observatories. Parasites. Parasitic diseases. Pharmacology. Phosphorus. Plastics. Radio. Science. Snails. Sun. Synthetic drugs. Synthetic fibers industry. Synthetic rubber. Textile industry. Tides. Volcanoes. Zoos. Financial statements. Arctic. Canal Zone Biological Area. Grasshopper Glacier (Montana) Hokkaido Island. Japan. Montana. National Zoological Park. Okinawa. Usu-zan (Japan)

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Item Description:	Table of contents, p. III. List of plates, p. IV. Appendices, p. 14. Radio astronomy, by J.A. Ratcliffe, p. 179. The sun, the moon, and the tides, by Leo Otis Colbert, p. 185. Engineering and pure science, by W.F.G. Swann, p. 201. Man's synthetic future, by Roger Adams, p. 217. Phosphorus and life, by D.P. Hopkins, p. 233. The Ice Age in the North American Arctic, by Richard Foster Flint, p. 243. The 1944 eruption of Usu, in Hokkado, Japan, by Takeshi Minakami, Toshio Ishikawa, and Kenzo Yagi, p. 261. Snails and their relations to the soil, by Harley J. Van Cleave, p. 273. The ecology, evolution, and distribution of the vertebrates, by Austin H. Clark, p. 283. Grasshopper Glacier of Montana and its relation to long-distance flights of grasshoppers, by Ashley B. Gurney, p. 305. Recent advances in the study and techniques of anatomy, by Paul G. Roofe and Samuel W. Lesher, p. 327. Livestock parasitology in the United States, by Benjamin Schwartz, p. 343. Botanizing with the Okinawans, by Egbert H. Walker, p. 359. Bromeliad malaria, by Lyman B. Smith, p. 385. Pharmacology of antibiotics, by Henry Welch, p. 399. An anthropologist looks at Lincoln, by T.D. Stewart, p. 419. The use of music in the treatment of the sick by American Indians, by Frances Densmore, p. 439. Index, p. 455.
Physical Description:	470 p. : illustrations, maps, tables.
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