IV ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1962 



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 The history and relationships of the world's cottons, by Sir Joseph 



Hutchinson 497 



Some mysteries of life and existence, by R. E. Snodgrass 517 



Civilization and the landscape, by Sylvia Crowe 537 



How many people have ever lived on earth? by Annabelle Desmond 545 



Bows and arrows: A chapter in the evolution of archery in America, by 



Paul E. Klopsteg 567 



Scientific methods in the examination and conservation of antiquities, by 



A. E. A. Werner 593 



LIST OF PLATES 

 Secretary's Report: Following Page 



Plates 1, 2_._ 54 



Plates 3-6 118 



Plates 7-10 134 



Plates 11-16 --- 198 



Aircraft propulsion (Taylor) : Plates 1-27 298 



Rocket propulsion (Cooper): Plate 1 310 



Early history of radar (Page) : Plates 1-4 318 



Modern glass (Stookey): Plates 1-3 326 



Earthquakes in Chile (Saint- Amand) : Plates 1-10 358 



Rim of the reef (Dawson): Plates 1-8 366 



What's happening to water? (Robinove) : Plate 1 382 



Opening of the Arctic Ocean (Strong): Plates 1-4 394 



Place of genetics in modern biology (Beadle): Plate 1 406 



Tropical fruit-fly menace (Christenson) : Plates 1-6 446 



Soil as a habitat for life (Russell): Plates 1-5 454 



Evolution of the echinoderms (Fell) : Plates 1-3 470 



Mangroves: Trees that make land (Stephens): Plates 1-4 494 



Civilization and the landscape (Crowe): Plates 1-4 542 



Bows and arrows (Klopsteg): Plates 1-5-- 582 



Methods in the conservation of antiquities (Werner): Plates 1-4 598 



