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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN" 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1927 
  

  

  The 
  role 
  of 
  vertebrates 
  in 
  the 
  control 
  of 
  insect 
  pest«, 
  by 
  W. 
  L. 
  McAtee. 
  

  

  Carnivorous 
  butterflies, 
  by 
  Austin 
  II. 
  Clark. 
  

  

  The 
  potato 
  of 
  romance 
  and 
  of 
  reality, 
  by 
  W. 
  B. 
  Safford. 
  

  

  The 
  relation 
  of 
  geography 
  to 
  timber 
  supply, 
  by 
  W. 
  B. 
  Greeley. 
  

  

  The 
  historical 
  geography 
  of 
  early 
  Japan, 
  by 
  Carl 
  Whiting 
  Bishop. 
  

  

  The 
  excavations 
  of 
  the 
  sanctuary 
  of 
  Tauit 
  at 
  Carthage, 
  by 
  Byron 
  Khun 
  dp 
  

  

  Prorok. 
  

   The 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution. 
  

   Sir 
  Archibald 
  Geikie, 
  by 
  Sir 
  Aubrey 
  Strahan. 
  

   Ned 
  Hollister 
  (1876-1924), 
  by 
  Wilfred 
  H. 
  Osgood. 
  

  

  Report 
  for 
  1026. 
  — 
  The 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  executive 
  committee 
  and 
  

   Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Regents 
  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 
  pamphlet 
  form 
  in 
  

   December, 
  1926. 
  

  

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

   the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  ending 
  June 
  30, 
  192G. 
  11 
  pp. 
  (Publ. 
  

   2878.) 
  

  

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

   June 
  30, 
  1926. 
  135 
  pp. 
  (Publ. 
  2877.) 
  

  

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

   close 
  of 
  the 
  year, 
  contains 
  the 
  following 
  papers 
  : 
  

  

  The 
  new 
  outlook 
  in 
  cosmogony, 
  by 
  J. 
  H. 
  Jeans. 
  

  

  Influences 
  of 
  sun 
  rays 
  on 
  plants 
  and 
  animals, 
  by 
  C. 
  G. 
  Abbot. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  evolution 
  of 
  the 
  stars, 
  by 
  C. 
  G. 
  Abbot. 
  

  

  Excursions 
  on 
  the 
  planets, 
  by 
  Lucieu 
  Rudaux. 
  

  

  High-frequency 
  rays 
  of 
  cosmic 
  origin, 
  by 
  R. 
  A. 
  Millikan. 
  

  

  The 
  present 
  status 
  of 
  radio 
  atmospheric 
  disturbances, 
  by 
  L. 
  W. 
  Austin. 
  

  

  Cold 
  light, 
  by 
  E. 
  Newton 
  Harvey. 
  

  

  Scientific 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  Maud 
  expedition, 
  1922-1925, 
  by 
  H. 
  U. 
  Sverdrup. 
  

  

  The 
  romance 
  of 
  carbon, 
  by 
  Arthur 
  D. 
  Little. 
  

  

  The 
  cause 
  of 
  earthquakes; 
  especially 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  eastern 
  United 
  States, 
  by 
  

  

  William 
  Herbert 
  Hobbs. 
  

   The 
  loess 
  of 
  China, 
  by 
  George 
  B. 
  Barbour. 
  

  

  A 
  visit 
  to 
  the 
  gem 
  districts 
  of 
  Ceylon 
  and 
  Burma, 
  by 
  Frank 
  D. 
  Adams. 
  

   The 
  history 
  of 
  organic 
  evolution, 
  by 
  John 
  M. 
  Coulter. 
  

   Barro 
  Colorado 
  Island 
  Biological 
  Station, 
  by 
  Alfred 
  O. 
  Gross. 
  

   Geography 
  and 
  evolution 
  in 
  the 
  pocket 
  gophers 
  of 
  California, 
  by 
  Joseph 
  

  

  Grinnell. 
  

   How 
  beavers 
  build 
  their 
  houses, 
  by 
  Vernon 
  Bailey. 
  

   The 
  mosquito-fish 
  {Gambusia), 
  and 
  its 
  relation 
  to 
  malaria, 
  by 
  David 
  Starr 
  

  

  Jordan. 
  

   The 
  effect 
  of 
  aluminum 
  sulphate 
  on 
  rhododendrons 
  and 
  other 
  acid-soil 
  plants. 
  

  

  by 
  Frederick 
  "V. 
  Coville. 
  

   Eastern 
  Brazil 
  through 
  an 
  agrostologist's 
  spectacles, 
  by 
  Agnes 
  Chase. 
  

   Our 
  heritage 
  from 
  the 
  American 
  Indians, 
  by 
  W. 
  E. 
  Safford. 
  

   The 
  parasite 
  element 
  of 
  natural 
  control 
  of 
  injurious 
  insects 
  and 
  its 
  control 
  by 
  

  

  man, 
  by 
  L. 
  O. 
  Howard. 
  

   Fragrant 
  butterflies, 
  by 
  Austin 
  H. 
  Clark. 
  

   The 
  ritual 
  bullfight, 
  by 
  C. 
  W, 
  Bishop. 
  

   The 
  bronzes 
  of 
  Hsin-Cheng 
  Hsien, 
  by 
  O. 
  W. 
  Bishop. 
  

  

  