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Ur of the Chaldees : More Royal Tombs, by C. Leonard Woolley. 



The Population of Ancient America, by H. J. Spinden. 



The Aborigines of the Ancient Island of Hispaniola, by Herbert W. Krieger. 



The Beginning of the Mechanical Transport Age in America, by Carl W. 

 Mitman. 



The Servant in the House; a Brief History of the Sewing Machine, by 

 Frederick L. Lewton. 



Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1S43-1928), by Bailey Willis. 



Hideyo Noguchi, by Simon Flexner. 



Report for 1930. — The report of the executive committee and pro- 

 ceedings of the Board of Eegents of the Institution and the report 

 of the secretary, both forming parts of the annual report of the 

 Board of Regents to Congress, were issued in December, 1930. 



Report of the executive committee and proceedings of the Board of Regents of 

 the Smithsonian Institution for the year ending June 30, 1930. 14 pp. (Publ. 

 3074. ) 



Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution for the year ending 

 June 30, 1930. 140 pp., 5 text figs. (Publ. 3073.) 



The general appendix to this report, which was in press at the 

 close of the year, contains the following papers : 



Beyond the Red in the Spectrum, by H. D. Babcock. 



Growth in our Knowledge of the Sun, by Charles E. St. John. 



The Modern Sun Cult, by J. W. Sturmer. 



The Moon and Radioactivity, by V. S. Forbes. 



Modern Concepts in Physics and their Relation to Chemistry, by Irving 

 Langmuir. 



Waves and Corpuscles in Modern Physics, by Louis de Broglie. 



New Researches on the Effect of Light Waves on the Growth of Plants, by 

 F. S. Brackett and Earl S. Johnston. 



The Autogiro: Its Characteristics and Accomplishments, by Harold F. 

 Pitcairn. 



Ten Years' Gliding and Soaring in Germany, by Prof. Dr. Walter Georgii. 



The First Rains and their Geological Significance, by Asaar Hadding. 



Weather and Glaciation, by Chester A. Reeds. 



Wild Life Protection : An Urgent Problem, by Ernest P. Walker. 



The Nesting Habits of Wagler's Oropendola on Barro Colorado Island, by 

 Frank M. Chapman. 



The Rise of Applied Entomology in the United States, by L. O. Howard. 



Man and Insects, by L. O. Howard. 



The Use of Fish Poisons in South America, by Ellsworth P. Killip and Albert 

 C. Smith. 



A Rare Parasitic Food Plant of the Southwest, by Frank A. Thackery and 

 M. French Gilman. 



The Mechanism of Organic Evolution, by Charles B. Davenport. 



Extra Chromosomes, a Source of Variations in the Jimson Weed, by Albert 

 F. Blakeslee. 



The Age of the Human Race in the Light of Geology, by Stephen Richarz. 



Elements of the Culture of the Circumpolar Zone, by W. G. Bogoras. 



The Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations of 1929 — a preliminary report, by William 

 Frederic Bad6. 



Recent Progress in the Field of Old World Prehistory, by George Grant 

 MacCurdy. 



