Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1859. Copyright 1860. Thomas H. Ford, Printer. 448 pages, illustrated. Measures 6" x 9".
Topics covered include:
- Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry
- Improvement of the Soil, by Tillage, Drainage & Fertilizers
- Lectures on the Shells of the Gulf of California
- Latest Research Relating to the General Movement of the Stars Around a Central Point
- Physics & the Natural History of Geneva
- Present State of the Ethnology in Reflection to the Form of the Human Skull
- Forms of the Skulls in Europe, Asia, Australia, Affica & America
- Conducting the Measure of the Sun's Distance
- Report on the State of Radiant Heat
- Description of the Magmetic Observatory at the Smithsonian Institution
- On the Observation of Earthquake Phenomena
- On the Use of the Galvanometer as a Measuring Instrument
- Meteriological Instruments
- Construction of a Standard Barometer
- And, More!
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