Record details

• Physical Description: xiii, 567 p. : ill., maps, plates ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1939.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes annual report of the Smithsonian Institution.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Is there life in other worlds? / H. Spencer Jones -- Use of solar energy for heating water / F.A. Brooks -- Fringe of the sun; nebulium and coronium / C.G. James -- Our knowledge of atomic nuclei / G.P. Harnwell -- Spectroscopy in industry / George R. Harrison -- Physical science in the crime-detection laboratory / J. Edgar Hoover -- Physical interpretation of the weather / Edgar W. Woolard -- Hurricanes into New England: meteorology of the storm of September 21, 1938 / Charles F. Brooks -- Humanity in geological perspective / Herbert L. Hawkins -- Geologic exhibits in the National Zoological Park / R.S. Bassler -- Structure of the earth as reveled by seismology / Ernest A. Hodgson -- Our petroleum supply / Hugh D. Miser -- Biologic balance on the farm / W.L. McAtee -- On the frontier of British Guiana and Brazil / H. Carington Smith -- Sea bird as an individual: results of ringing experiments / R.M. Lockley.

Birds and the wind / Neil T. McMillan -- Bookworms / E.A. Back -- Problem of conserving rare native plants / M.L. Fernald -- Plankton in the water supply / Florence E. Meier -- Trichinosis in swine and its relationship to public health / Benjamin Schwartz -- Closing the gap at Tepe Gawra / E.A. Speiser -- Sun worship / Herbert J. Spinden -- Use of soapstone by the Indians of the eastern United States / David I. Bushnell -- Modern growth of the totem pole on the northwest coast / Marius Barbeau -- Historic American highways / Albert C. Rose -- Modern trends in air transport / W.F. Durand -- Story of the time capsule / G. Edward Pendray.

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