Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year ending June 30, 1920

Abstract

OF the 704 pages that make up the volume before us, 550, accompanied by 230 plates, are assigned to the appendix. The body of the report is somewhat dead by now, but the large tail is still lively enough to attract attention. It consists, as usual, of papers general in character and ranging over the field of human intellect from astronomy to fine art. There are 27 such papers, of which 14 are original and by Americans, and 13 are reprints or translations of articles by American, British, and French authors. All are examples of popularisation of a high type, and many of them could be understood by readers with little or no previous knowledge of the subject. The names of H. H. Turner, W. D. Halliburton, M. Caullery, and Auguste Lameere among the foreign authors indicate the general excellence. The papers that appear here for the first time are, to a large extent, summaries of work that, Has fyben published, elsewhere, but some of them contain matter that seems to be fresh.

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year ending June 30, 1920.

(Washington: Government Printing Office, 1922.)