Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year ended June 30, 1942
Contributors: Abbot, C. G. (Charles Greeley); Beyer, H. Otley (Henry Otley); Elvehjem, C. A. (Conrad Arnold); Fleming, J. A., Sir (John Ambrose); Foster, Mulford Bateman; Gershenfeld, Louis; Henderson, Edward P.; Hubble, Edwin Powell; Jeans, James Hopwood; Jenness, Diamond; Kellogg, Remington; Levorsen, A. I. (Arville Irving); Major, Randolph T.; Packard, C. M. (Clyde Monroe); Perry, Stuart H.; Shapley, Harlow; Stanley, Wendell M. (Wendell Meredith); Stetson, Harlan True; Watson, Malcolm; Whittlesey, Derwent; Young, Stanley P.; Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
Series: United States congressional serial set -- serial set no. 10829; House document / 78th Congress, 1st session. House -- no. 13, pt. 1; United States congressional serial set -- serial set no. 10829.; House document (United States. Congress. House) -- 78th Congress, no. 13, pt. 1.
Published: 1943
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
Subjects: Agricultural pests; Airplanes; Aquatic animals; Art; Astronomy; Atmosphere; Chemical research; Chemistry; Crops; Diet; Discovery and exploration; Earth (Planet); Federal aid to museums; Federal receipts and expenditures; Food; Galaxies; Geology; Insect pests; Life on other planets; Light; Magnetism; Malaria; Mammals; Marine biology; Meteors and meteorites; Museum acquisitions; Museum exhibits; Museums; Muskox; Observatories; Oil and gas exploration; Petroleum industry and trade; Petroleum; Physics; Plants (Botany); Radiation; Radio; Sanitation; Sealing; Seals (Animals); Solar energy; Sun; Trusts and trustees; Viruses; Vitamins; War work (World War II); Whales; Whaling; Zoos; Canadians; Indians; Financial statements; Freer Gallery of Art; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); National Museum of American Art (U.S.); National Museum of Natural History; Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology; Smithsonian Institution. International Exchange Service
Notes: Table of contents, p. V.

List of plates, p. VII.

Appendices, p. 17.

The 1914 tests of the Langley "aerodrome," by C.G. Abbot, p. 111.

The problem of the expanding universe, by Edwin Hubble, p. 119.

Galaxies, by Harlow Shapley, p. 133.

Is there life on the other worlds? by Sir James Jeans, p. 145.

Solar radiation and the state of the atmosphere, by Harlan True Stetson, p. 151.

The sun and the Earth's magnetic field, by J.A. Fleming, p. 173.

Ultraviolet light as a sanitary aid, by Louis Gershenfeld, p. 209.

Trends in petroleum geology, by A.I. Levorsen, p. 227.

Meteorites and their metallic constituents, by E.P. Henderson and Stuart H. Perry, p. 235.

Philippine tektites and the tektite problem in general, by H. Otley Beyer, p. 253.

Chemical properties of viruses, by W.M. Stanley, p. 261.

Industrial development of synthetic vitamins, by Randolph T. Major, p. 273.

The nutritional requirements of man, by C.A. Elvehjem, p. 289.

Past and present status of the marine mammals of South America and the West Indies, by Remington Kellogg, p. 299.

The return of the musk ox, by Stanley P. Young, p. 317.

Insect enemies of our cereal crops, by C.M. Packard, p. 323.

The geographical aspects of malaria, by Sir Malcolm Watson, p. 339.

The bromeliads of Brazil, by Mulford B. Foster, p. 351.

Canada's Indian problems, by Diamond Jenness, p. 367.

Dakar and the other Cape Verde settlements, by Derwent Whittlesey, p. 381.

Index, p. 409.