Report of the Board of Regents

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents

The Institution, 1898

Contents

• Letter from the Secretary snbmitting the Annual Report of the Regents: viii
• Rfport of the Executive Committee for the year ending June 301897: xvii
• Introduction: 1
• Bureau of American Ethnology: 19
• Astrophysical Observatory: 27
• GENERAL APPENDIX: 75
• Aspects of American Astronomy by Simon Newcomb: 85
• The Beginnings of American Astronomy by Edward S Holden: 101
• The Evolution of Satellites by G H Darwin: 109
• Electrical Advance in the Past Ten Years by Elihu Thomson: 125
• The XRays by W C RJintgen: 137
• Cathode Rays by J J Thomson: 157
• Story of Experiments in Mechauical Flight by S P Langley: 169
• On Soaring Plight by E C Huffaker: 183
• The Revival of Alchemy by H C Bolton: 207
• Diamonds by William Crookcs: 219
• The Discovery of New Elements within the Last TwentyFive Years: 237
• An Undiscovered Gas by William Ramsay: 247
• Fluorine by Henri Moissau: 259
• Light and its Artificial Production by O Lummer: 273
• Exploratious of the Upper Atmosphere by Henri de Gralbgny: 301
• The Exploration of the Free Air by Means of Kites at Blue Hill Observatory: 317
• The Debt of the World to Pnre Science by John J Stevenson: 325
• The Age of the Earth as an Abode Fitted for Life by Lord Kelvin: 337
• The Unity of the Human Species by Marquis de Nadaillac: 549
• gan by W A Phillips: 587
• A Preliminary Account of Archaeological Field Work in Arizona in 1897: 601
• The Building for the Library of Congress by Bernard R Green: 626
• Francis Amasa Walker by George F Hoar and Carroll D Wright: 635

Bibliographic information

• Title: Report of the Board of Regents; Mis. doc.; Publication (Smithsonian Institution)
• Author: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
• Publisher: The Institution, 1898
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Dec 6, 2007