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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1905.

SUBJECTS.

1. Proceedings of the Board of Regents for the sessions of December 6, 1904, and January 25 and March 6, 1905.

2. Report of the executive committee, exhibiting the financial affairs of the Institution, including a statement of the Smithson fund, and receipts and expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1905.

3. Annual report of the Secretary, giving an account of the operations and condition of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1905, with statistics of exchanges, etc.

4. General appendix, comprising a selection of miscellaneous memoirs of interest to collaborators and correspondents of the Institution, teachers, and others engaged in the promotion of knowledge. These memoirs relate chiefly to the calendar year 1905.

LIST OF PLATES.

SECRETARY'S REPORT:

Plates I, II. Smithson mortuary chapel.....

Plate III. African ostrich.......

IV. Grevy's zebra...

V. Terrestrial temperature and solar radiation..
VI. Absorption of solar envelope....

VII. New 15-inch colostat...

PHOTOGRAPHS OF LIGHTNING (Larsen):

Plates I, II. Photographs of lightning flashes..

Plate III. Apparatus for photographing lightning flashes

IV. Photograph of lightning flash ....

V. Spectrum photographs of lightning flashes

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VI. Spectrum of spark. Barometer.

PROGRESS IN RADIOGRAPHY (Gastine):

Plate I. One of the first radiographs of the hand in 1896
II. Radiograph of the hand in 1897

III. Radiograph of a frog....

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IV. Zoological and paleontological applications of radiography.
V. Radiographs of child's jaw and of arteries of fingers

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VIII. Apparatus and methods for localizing objects in the head

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VI. In a Liberian coffee plantation. Study of the forest on a Liberian

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VII. Colored map of Liberia

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GEOGRAPHICAL RESULTS OF TIBET MISSION (Younghusband):

Plate I. Bamtso Lake and Bhutan Range. Mount Everest from Khambajong..

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II. Frozen waterfall at Dotha. The Yamdok Tso
III. The Potala. Panorama of Lassa from Ba-mo-ri
IV. The Potala from Ba-mo-ri. The Lassa council

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