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CONTENTS.
Letter from the Secretary submitting the Annual Report of the Regents to
Congress......
Contents of the report......
List of plates.....
General subjects of the annual report.............
Officials of the Institution and its branches...
Page.
III
V
VII
IX
XI
International Exchanges...
International congresses and celebrations..
George Washington Memorial Building..
National Museum..
Bureau of American Ethnology...
National Zoological Park.......
Astrophysical Observatory.
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature..
Appendix 1. Report on the United States National Museum....
2. Report on the Bureau of American Ethnology.
3. Report on the International Exchanges..
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21
22
23
25
27
28
30
37
58
7. Report on the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.
99
102
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Condition of the fund July 1, 1912..
Receipts and disbursements July 1, 1911, to June 30, 1912.
Summary of appropriations by Congress...
The year's progress in astronomy, by P. Puiseux...
The spiral nebulæ, by P. Puiseux..
The radiation of the sun, by C. G. Abbot..
Molecular theories and mathematics, by Émile Borel....
Modern mathematical research, by G. A. Miller....
135
143
153
167
187
The connection between the ether and matter, by Henri Poincaré...
Experiments with soap bubbles, by C. V. Boys...............
199
211
Measurements of infinitesimal quantities of substances, by William Ramsay...
219
The latest achievements and problems of the chemical industry, by Carl
Duisberg...
231
Holes in the air, by W. J. Humphreys....
257
Review of applied mechanics, by L. Lecornu..
269
Report on the recent great eruption of the volcano "Stromboli," by Frank A.
Perret...
285
The glacial and postglacial lakes of the Great Lakes region, by Frank B. Taylor.
Applied geology, by Alfred H. Brooks..........
291
329
A trip to Madagascar, the country of beryls, by A. Lacroix...
The relations of paleobotany to geology, by F. H. Knowlton..
Geophysical research, by Arthur L. Day........
353
359
371
The fluctuating climate of North America, by Ellsworth Huntington....
383
The survival of organs and the "culture" of living tissues, by R. Legendre....
Adaptation and inheritance in the light of modern experimental investigation,
by Paul Kammerer....
413
421
The paleogeographical relations of antarctica, by Charles Hedley..
The ants and their guests, by P. E. Wasmann...
443
455
The penguins of the antarctic regions, by L. Gain.
475
The derivation of the European domestic animals, by C. Keller.
483
Life: its nature, origin, and maintenance, by E. A. Schäfer..
493
The origin of life: a chemist's fantasy, by H. E. Armstrong..
527
The evolution of man, by G. Elliot Smith..
The history and varieties of human speech, by Edward Sapir..
Ancient Greece and its slave population, by S. Zaborowski..
Origin and evolution of the blond Europeans, by Adolphe Bloch....
History of the finger-print system, by Berthold Laufer....
The appearance of life on worlds and the hypothesis of Arrhénius, by Alphonse
Berget....
543
553
573
597
609
Urbanism: A historic, geographic, and economic study, by Pierre Clerget..
The Sinai problem, by E. Oberhummer...
The music of primitive peoples and the beginnings of European music, by
Willy Pastor....
Icebergs and their location in navigation, by Howard T. Barnes...
Henri Poincaré: his scientific work; his philosophy, by Charles Nordmann
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