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ANNUAL REPORTS, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



Compasses, gyrostatic 



Gyrostatic compass, by H. Marchand. 

 1911: 111-115 

 Compton, Arthur H., Assault on atoms. 

 193 1 : 287-296 

 Atomic energy as a human asset. 



1946: 161-176 

 Science shaping American culture. 



1941: 175-182 

 What is light? 1929: 215-228 

 Compton, Karl T., Battle of the alchem- 

 ists. 1933: 269-282 

 Electron: its intellectual and social 



significance. 1937: 205-223 

 High voltage. 1933: 249-267 

 Recent discoveries and theories relat- 

 ing to the structure of matter. 1922: 

 145-156 

 State of science. 1949: 395-410 

 Computers 

 Digital computers: their history, oper- 

 ation, and use, by E. M. McCormick. 

 i960: 281-299 

 Conant, Levi L., Primitive number sys- 

 tems. 1892: 583-594 

 Concretions 

 Concretions: freaks in stone, by R. S. 



Bassler. 1935: 321-326 

 Glacial varved clay concretions of New 

 England, by Ray S. Bassler. 1948: 

 269-276 

 Condensation 



Condensation nuclei, by C. T. R. Wil- 

 son. 1904: 195-206 

 Phenomena connected with cloudy 

 condensation, by John Aitken. 

 1893: 201-230 

 Condorcet, Jean Antoine Nicolas de 

 Condorcet: a biography, by Arago. 

 1878: 180-235 

 Conger, Paul S., Significance of shell 

 structure in diatoms. 1936: 325- 



344 

 Congo 



Pygmies of the great Congo forest, by 

 Harry H. Johnston. 1902: 479-491 

 Conklin, Edwin G., A generation's prog- 

 ress in the study of evolution. 1934: 

 205-222 



Conservation 



Concepts in conservation of land, wa- 

 ter, and wildlife, by Ira N. Gabriel- 

 son. 1948: 283-291 



Conservation of natural resources, by 

 James Douglas. 1909: 317-324 



Conservation of the Pacific halibut, an 

 international experiment, by Wil- 

 liam F. Thompson. 1935: 361-382 



Conserving endangered wildlife spe- 

 cies, by Hartley H. T. Jackson. 

 1945:247-271 



Forest preservation, by Gifford Pin- 

 chot. 1 9 1 : 40 1-405 



Preservation of the marine animals of 

 the Northwest coast, by W. H. Dall. 

 1901:683-688 



Protection of fauna in the U.S.S.R., by 

 G. P. Dementiev. 1959: 483-493 



Waste and conservation of plant food, 

 by Harvey W. Wiley. 1894: 213- 

 235 



Wildlife protection — an urgent prob- 

 lem, by Ernest P. Walker. 1930: 



3 2 7-346 

 Consolazio, W. W., and others, Drink- 

 ing water from sea water. 1945: 



153-^3 



Constants 



Constants of nature, by John LeConte. 

 1878: 427-428 



Tables of the constants of nature and 

 art, by Charles Babbage. 1856: 289- 

 302 

 Construction materials 



Mode of testing building materials, by 

 Joseph Henry. 1856: 303-310 

 Continents 



Drifting of the continents, by Pierre 

 Termier. 1924: 219-236 



Form, drift, and rhythm of the conti- 

 nents, by W. W. Watts. 1936: 185- 

 205 



Hypothesis of continental displace- 

 ment, by Charles Schuchert. 1928: 

 249-282 

 Cook, E. Fullerton, National and inter- 

 national standards for medicines. 

 1937: 431-450 



