Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1858.
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- Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.): illustrations, maps, tables
- Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : [publisher not identified], 1859.
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| General Note: | Account of antiquities from Kentucky, by S.S. Lyon, p. 430. An account of the grasshoppers and locusts of America, by Alexander S. Taylor, p. 200. Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes. Communication from Dr. Robert Hare on a method of forming small weights, p. 426. Dispersion of a cloud by an electrical discharge, by D.W. Naill, p. 425. FDLP item number not assigned. Index follows p. 440. Instructions for collecting Coleoptera, by John L. LeConte, p. 160. Instructions for collecting Diptera, by H. Loew, with additions by R. Ostensacken, p. 167. Instructions for collecting Lepidoptera, by Brackinbridge Clemens, p. 173. Journal of the proceedings of the Board of Regents, p. 78. Lectures on astronomy, by A. Caswell, precedes p. 86. List of birds of Bermuda, by T. Bland, p. 286. List of birds of Nova Scotia, p. 280. List of meteorological stations and observers, p. 63. Memoir of Priestley, by M. Cuvier, follows p. 137. Method of obtaining the amount of water in rivers, by A.A. Humphreys, p. 438. Notes on barometer, rain and snow gages, &c., by R.H. Gardiner, p. 432. Observations on the opening and closing of Kennebec River, Maine, by R.H. Gardiner, p. 434. On the causes which limit vegetable species towards the north, in Europe and similar regions, by Adolphe De Candolle, p. 237. On the distribution of the forests and trees of North America with notes on its physical geography, by J.G. Cooper, p. 246. On the means of destroying the grasshopper, by V. Motschulsky, p. 214. Plan of a bibliography, by Julius Friedlander, p. 428. Record of earthquakes felt at the Collegiate Seminary of Guatemala in 1857 and 1858, by A. Canudas, follows p. 436. Report of recent progress in physics, by John Muller, follows p. 371. Report of the Executive Committee, p. 74. Report of the Secretary follows p. 12. Report on atmospheric electricity, by M.F. Duprez, p. 290. Snow gage, by W.E. Guest, p. 433. Table of contents follows p. 438. The earthquake of 1811 at New Madrid, Missouri, by Timothy Dudley, p. 421. Vegetable colonization of the British Isles, of Shetland, Faroe and Iceland, by C. Martins, p. 229. |
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