Record details

• Physical Description: xii, 580 p. : ill., maps, plates, port. ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1928.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes annual report of the Smithsonian Institution.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The accomplishments of modern astronomy / C.G. Abbot -- Recent developments of cosmical physics / J.H. Jeans -- The evolution of twentieth-century physics / Robert A. Millikan -- Isaac Newton / Prof. Albert Einstein -- The nucleus of the atom / J.A. Crowther -- The centenary of Augustin Fresnel / E.M. Antoniadi -- Soaring flight / Wolfgang Klemperer -- The coming of the new coal age / Edwin E. Slosson -- Is the earth growing old? / Josef Felix Pompeckj -- Geological climates / W.B. Scott -- Geologic romance of the Finger Lakes / Prof. Herman F. Fairchild -- Fossil marine faunas as indicators of climatic conditions / Edwin Kirk -- Paleontology and human relations / Stuart Weller -- At the North Pole / Lincoln Ellsworth -- Bird banding in America / Frederick C. Lincoln -- The distribution of fresh-water fishes / David Starr Jordan -- The mind of an insect / R.E. Snodgrass --

The evidence bearing on man's evolution / Ales Hrdlicka -- The origins of Chinese civilization / Henry Maspero -- Archeology in China / Liang Chi-Chao -- Indian villages of Southeast Alaska / Herbert W. Krieger -- The interpretation of aboriginal mounds by means of Creek Indian customs / John R. Swanton -- Friedrich Kurz, artist-explorer / David Bushnell, Jr. -- Note on the principles and processes of x-ray examination of paintings / Alan Burroughs -- Lengthening of human life in retrospect and prospect / Irving Fisher -- Charles Doolittle Walcott / George Otis Smith -- William Healey Dall / C. Hart Merriam.

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