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The Smithsonian Institution
1
Report on the United States National Museum
36
Condition of the fund July 1 1908
87
Acts of Sixtieth Congress first session relative to Smithsonian Institution
101
The present status of military aeronautics by Maj George O Squier U 8 A
117
Aviation in France in 1908 by PierreRoger Jourdain
145
Wireless telephony by R A Fessenden
161
Phototelegraphy by Henri Armagnat
197
Uranium and geology by John Joly
355
An outline review of the geology of Peru by George I Adams
385
Our present knowledge of the earth by E Wiechert
431
The antarctic questionVoyages since 1898 by J Machat
451
Some geographical aspects of the Nile by Capt H G Lyons
481
Heredity and the origin of species by Daniel Trembly MacDougal
505
Cactaceie of northeastern and central Mexico together with a synopsis of
525
their kinds and ways by Theodore Gill
565

The gramophone and the mechanical recording and reproduction of musical
209
On the light thrown by recent investigations on electricity on the relation
233
Development of general and physical chemistry during the last forty years
245
Development of technological chemistry during the last forty years by O
255
Twenty years progress in explosives by Oscar Guttmann
263
Recent researches in the structure of the universe by J C Kapteyn
301
Solar vortices and magnetism in sun spots by C G Abbot
321
their extent and causes by J W Gregory
339
The birds of India by Douglas Dewar
617
The evolution of the elephant by Richard S Lull
641
Excavations at BoghazKeui in the summer of 1907 by Hugo Winckler and
677
Malaria in Gnsece by Ronald Ross
697
Carl von Linn6 as a geologist by A G Nathorst
711
Life and work of Lord Kelvin by Silvanus P Thompson
745
The work of Henri Becquerel by Andre Broca
769

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