Do you love studying the history of science and technology? Here are two wonderful antique volumes to add to your library! Free priority mail shipping in the U.S.
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year 1863. Printed 1864 by the Government Printing Office. 419 pages with a few illustrations. Inside front cover has the bookplate of the Wyoming Historical & Geographical Society. Measures 6" x 9".
Topics include:
- Report from the Secretary as to operations the past year
- List of meteorological stations and observers
- Principles of linguistic science
- Memoir of C.F. Beautemps-Beaupre
- History of the Royal Society of London
- Modern theory of chemical types
- The propagation of electricity
- Physics and natural history of Geneva
- The figures of equilibrium of a liquid mass
- Withdrawn from the auction of gravity
- History of discovery as to magnetism
- Recent research relative to the nebulae
- Figure of the Earth
- Aeronautic voyages
- An account of balloon ascensions
- The aboriginal inhabitants of the California Peninsula
- Purple dyeing, ancient & modern
- Methods of preserving Lepidopters
- An account of a remarkable accumulation of bats
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year 1877. Printed by the Government Printing Office. 488 pages with a few
illustrations. Inside front cover has a ex-library bookplate. Measures 6" x 9".
Topics include:
- Report on the Centennial Exposition of 1876 (19 pages)
- Biographical sketch of Dom Pedra, Emperor of Brazil (31 pages)
- Kinetic theories of gravitation (77 pages)
- The revolutions of the crust of the Earth (64 pages)
- The Asteroids between Mars & Jupiter (13 pages)
Ethnology topics:
- The Latimer Collection of antiquities from Porto Rico in the National Museum (21 pages)
- The prehistoric antiquities of Hungary (7 pages)
- Study of Jade by the Chinese (15 pages)
- Antiquities in Guatemala (7 pages)
- Pre-historic mounds of Grant County, Wisconsin (8 pages)
- Deposits of flint instruments
- A double-walled earthwork in Ashtabula County, Ohio
- On an ancient implement of wood (4 pages)
- Indian forts & dwellings (15 pages)
- The Sioux or Dakota Indians (6 pages)
- Centennial mission to the Indians of western Nevada & California (11 pages)
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