﻿CONTENTS 
  

  

  Page 
  

  

  List 
  of 
  officials 
  vii 
  

  

  The 
  Smithsonian 
  in 
  wartime 
  1 
  

  

  Summary 
  of 
  the 
  year's 
  activities 
  of 
  the 
  branches 
  of 
  the 
  Institution 
  5 
  

  

  The 
  establishment 
  9 
  

  

  The 
  Board 
  of 
  Regents 
  10 
  

  

  Finances 
  11 
  

  

  Publications 
  11 
  

  

  Library 
  12 
  

  

  Appendix 
  1. 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum 
  13 
  

  

  2. 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  National 
  Gallery 
  of 
  Art 
  25 
  

  

  3. 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  National 
  Collection 
  of 
  Fine 
  Arts 
  35 
  

  

  4. 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  Freer 
  Gallery 
  of 
  Art 
  41 
  

  

  5. 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  American 
  Ethnology 
  47 
  

  

  6. 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  International 
  Exchange 
  Service 
  56 
  

  

  7. 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  National 
  Zoological 
  Park 
  65 
  

  

  8. 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  Astrophysical 
  Observatory, 
  including 
  the 
  Divi- 
  

  

  sion 
  of 
  Astrophysical 
  Research 
  and 
  the 
  Division 
  of 
  Radia- 
  

   tion 
  and 
  Organisms 
  75 
  

  

  9. 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  library 
  77 
  

  

  10. 
  Report 
  on 
  publications 
  82 
  

  

  Report 
  of 
  the 
  executive 
  committee 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Regents 
  89 
  

  

  GENERAL 
  APPENDIX 
  

  

  Solar 
  radiation 
  as 
  a 
  power 
  source, 
  by 
  C. 
  G. 
  Abbot 
  99 
  

  

  Some 
  biological 
  effects 
  of 
  solar 
  radiation, 
  by 
  Brian 
  O'Brien 
  109 
  

  

  The 
  sea 
  as 
  a 
  storehouse, 
  by 
  E. 
  F. 
  Armstrong, 
  D. 
  Sc, 
  F. 
  R. 
  S 
  135 
  

  

  Progress 
  in 
  new 
  synthetic 
  textile 
  fibers, 
  by 
  Herbert 
  R. 
  Mauersberger 
  151 
  

  

  Petroleum 
  geology, 
  by 
  William 
  B. 
  Heroy 
  161 
  

  

  The 
  1942 
  eruption 
  of 
  Mauna 
  Loa, 
  Hawaii, 
  by 
  Gordon 
  A. 
  Macdonald 
  199 
  

  

  New 
  metals 
  and 
  new 
  methods, 
  by 
  C. 
  H. 
  Desch, 
  F. 
  R. 
  S 
  213 
  

  

  Oceanography, 
  by 
  Henry 
  C. 
  Stetson. 
  219 
  

  

  The 
  ocean 
  current 
  called 
  "The 
  Child," 
  by 
  Eliot 
  G. 
  Mears 
  245 
  

  

  Maps, 
  strategy, 
  and 
  world 
  politics, 
  by 
  Richard 
  Edes 
  Harrison 
  and 
  Robert 
  

  

  Strausz-Hupe 
  253 
  

  

  The 
  natural-history 
  background 
  of 
  camouflage, 
  by 
  Herbert 
  Friedmann 
  — 
  259 
  

  

  Dangerous 
  reptiles, 
  by 
  Doris 
  M. 
  Cochran 
  275 
  

  

  The 
  plants 
  of 
  China 
  and 
  their 
  usefulness 
  to 
  man, 
  by 
  Egbert 
  H. 
  Walker 
  — 
  325 
  

  

  Natural 
  rubber, 
  by 
  O. 
  F. 
  Cook 
  363 
  

  

  Lessons 
  from 
  the 
  Old 
  World 
  to 
  the 
  Americas 
  in 
  land 
  use, 
  by 
  Walter 
  Clay 
  

  

  Lowdermilk 
  413 
  

  

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