Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1858

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910715836503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Washington, D.C.] : , : [publisher not identified], , 1859
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (448 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables
• Collana: Mis. doc. / 35th Congress, 2nd session. House ; ; no. 57; [United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial no. 1016]
• Altri autori (Persone): BlandR.E; CanudasA; CaswellAlexis; ClemensBrackinbridge; CooperJ.G; CuvierGeorges; De CandolleAdolphe; DudleyT (Timothy); DuprezM.F; FriedländerJulius; GardinerR.H; GuestW.E; HareRobert; HumphreysA. A <1810-1883.> (Andrew Atkinson); LeconteJohn L; LoewH <1807-1879.> (Hermann); LyonSidney S <1808-1872.> (Sidney Smith); MartinsC; MotschulskyV; MüllerJohann Heinrich Jacob <1809-1875.>; NaillD.W; Osten-SackenC. R <1828-1906.> (Carl Robert); TaylorAlexander S
• Soggetti: Antiquities; Astronomy; Birds; Botany; Charitable contributions; Discoveries in geography; Earthquakes; Electricity; Electromagnetism; Entomology; Federal aid to museums; Financial statements; Forests and forestry; Forests and forestry - Accidents; Grasshoppers; Insects; Landscape architecture; Learned institutions and societies; Lightning; Management; Meteorological stations; Meteorology; Weather forecasting; Models (Patents); Museums - Acquisitions; Museums; Natural history; New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812; Observatories; Ornithology; Pests - Control; Pest control baits; Physics; Public administration; Publishers and publishing; Bodies of water; Rivers; Trees; Vegetables; Weights and measures; Legislative materials.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: 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.; 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.; 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.; Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.; FDLP item number not assigned.