1922 Triceratops Dinosaur Fossils American Indians Hopi Fire Narcotic Datura etc

Description: Annual Report of the Board of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ending June 30, 1920 Published by Government Printing Office Washington ( D.C. ) 1922 Hardcover. Green cloth binding. 6" x 9.25" 704 pages plus 230 Illustration Plates. Indexed. Over 100 years old. Various reports relating to the work of the Smithsonian Institution. Dinosaurs , American Indians , Jamaica , etc. etc. Illustrated with 230 Plates ( two hundred and thirty plates ) plus Various in-text illustrations. ------ Very Good Condition. Just light wear to the binding. ( see the photos ) The hinges are tight. No writing. No markings. The pages and illustration plates are in very good condition. -------- The Reports include: Studying The Sun's Heat on Mountain Peaks in Desert Lands by C. G. Abbot ( Astronomy ) 7 Illustration Plates The Habitability of Venus , Mars and Other Worlds by C. G. Abbot ( Astronomy ) 3 Illustration Plates Structure of Crystals by Ralph W. G. Wyckoff 7 Illustration Plates Dr. Aston 's Experiments on Mass Spectra 1 Illustration Plate The Bryzoa or Moss Animals by R. S. Bassler with 4 Plates , including Limestone Fossil Slab ( middle Ordovician from Minnesota ), Bryzoan marl from Early Tertiary rocks of South Carolina , Growth Forms of Cyclostomata ( North Carolina etc.), Structural Features of Cyclostomata ( over 30 figures , Mississippi , Alabama , etc., etc. ) Horned Dinosaurs by Charles Gilmore ( Triceratops and other Dinosaur Fossils ; Paleontology ) with 8 Illustration Plates , including Restoration of Triceratops , Fossil Skeleton of Monoclonius Nasicornis Brown , Fossil Horn Cores of Triceratops Atticornis and sectioned Fossil Triceratops Skull , Skin Impressions of Chasmosaurus and of Monoclonius , Skull of Triceratops imbedded in Sandstone Cliff in Wyoming and Skull of Triceratops excavated in Montana, Fossil Skulls compared - Horned Dinosaur and Horned Toad , Skull of Triceratops and Skull of Monoclonius , Mounted Skeleton of Triceratops and Brachyceratops Parasites and Symbiosis in their Relation to Evolution by Maurice Caullery The Occult Senses in Birds by Herbert H. Beck Suppression of Agricultural Pests by Birds by W. L. McAtee with 3 Plates Adventures in the Life of a Fiddler Crab with 6 Plates Senses of Insects by N. E. McIndoo with 1 Plate ( plus 15 text illustrations of Honey Bees and Honey Bee anatomy ) Two Insects of the Orchard by R. E. Snodgrass with 3 Plates ( 2 of the plates are in Color ; Resplendent Shield Bearer and Ribbed Cocoon Maker ) Botanical Gardens of Jamaica ( Caribbean Island ) by W. R. Maxon with 20 Plates , including Akee Fruit , Nutmeg , Gru Gru Palm , view of the landscape across Hope River south of Gordontown , views in Castleton Gardens , Kola Fruit , Flowering Branch of Allspice , Bellevue House at Cinchona , gardens at Cinchona , large Silk Cotton Tree at " Halfway Tree " between Hope gardens and Kingston , a 1904 view in Hope Gardens , Hipe Gardens - Fiji Palm and Madagascar Palm , Vanilla Plant growing on Divi Divi Tree , Flowing Branch of Granadilla , Logwood Trees , Logwood being weighed at a Railway Station Narcotic Daturas of the Old and New World An account of their properties and uses as intoxicants and in Divination by William R. Safford with 13 Illustration Plates, including Narcotic Metel Nut of the Arabs , Flower of Datura Metel L. , Downy Thorn Apple of Mexico ( Datura Innoxia Miller ), American Datura Meteloides Dunal - used as a ceremonial plant in Mexico and Southwestern United States , Toloache ( Datura Discolor Bernh ), Jamestown Weed ( Datura Stramonium L. ) used as a powerful Narcotic by the Algonquin Indians , Climping Datura ( Solandra Hartwegii ) called Tecomaxochitl by the Aztecs , Datura Arborea L. of southern Peru , Fruit of Datura Arborea L., Fruit of Colombian Datura Pittieri Safford , Angel's Trumpet Plant ( Datura Suavolens R. ), Intoxicating Tonga Plant ( Datura Sanguinea R. ), Fruits of Datura Sanguinea R. & P., Effect of Relative Length of Day and Night on Flowers and Fruit Plants by W. W. Garner and H. A. Allard with 17 Plates Fire Worship of the Hopi Indians ( Native American Indians ) by J. Walter Fewkes with 13 Illustration Plates , including Navajo Fire Dance , Altar of Horned Priests , Hopi New Fire Paraphernalia ( drawings of corn tablet , prayer stick , fire hearth and stick , etc. ), Phallic Dance of the Tataukyamu - Priests of the New Hopi Fire Rite , Priests in Mountain Sheep dress in Walpi New Fire Rite , Screen used in the Winter Solstice Ceremony at Oraibi with Alosaka deity , photograph of a Helmet worn by a Horn Priest ( Aaltu ), Hopi New Fire Paraphernalia ( more drawings of fire worship items ), Hopi Indians as Corn Maidens ( Palahikomana ), Altar of the Lesser Mamzrauti or Woman's Tablet Dance , Six Masks worn by the Sumaikoli , photo of the Eastern End of the Court of Fire Temple at Mesa Verde National Park , photo of the Western End of the Court of Fire Temple Racial Groups and Figures in the Natural History Building of the United States National Museum by Walter Hough ( Ethnology ) with 87 Plates showing museum models, including " Tribes of the Arctic " ( 6 plates showing Eskimo [ Inuit ] people and dwellings ), " Tribes of Alaska and Canada " ( 4 plates showing Native American Indians , Chilkat , Haida , Loucheux , Montagnai ), " Tribes of Eastern and Southern United States " ( 10 plates showing Chiewa Indians , Iroquois , Virginia Indians , Seminole Indians of Florida , etc. ), " Tribes of the Great Plains and Northern Rocky Mountains " ( 13 plates showing Sioux Indians , Crow , Nez Perce , Kiowa , Pawnee , etc. ), " Tribes of the southwestern United States " ( 10 plates , Hopi Indians of Arizona , Hopi Pueblo , Zuni Indians , Snake Dance , Navaho [ Navajo ], Apache ), " Tribes of Mexican Border and Northern Mexico " ( 3 plates , Papago Indians , Mahave Indian Chief , Cocopa Indians ), " Tribes of California " ( 2 plates, Digger Indians , Hupa Indians ), " Tribes of Mexico and Cetral America " ( 3 plates, Seri Indian , Chiapas , Maya Quiche ), " Tribes of South America " ( 7 plates , Carib Indians , Goajiros Indians , Jamamadi , Jivaro Chief , Tehuelche Indians ), " Tribes of Africa " ( p plates, Zulu , Berber , Somali , Wolof , Bambara , Wachaga , Ghadames ), " Tribes of Malaysia " ( 6 pkates , Dyaks , Bontoc Igorot , Filiponos of Luzon Philippines , Negritos ), " Tribes of Polynesia " ( 4 plates, Samoa , group of early Hawaiian people, Maori man [ New Zealand ]), " Tribes of Papua and Australia " ( 3 plates, Papuan man, Australia man , Veddah man of Ceylon [ Sri Lanka ]), " Tribes of Asia " ( 6 plates, Mongol of Mongolia , Tibet man , group of Aino of Island of Yezo Japan , Aino people , Korean man , Arab ) Dances , Music and Songs of the Ancient and Modern Mexicans ( Mexico ) by Auguste Genin with 10 Plates Etc. -------------------- Dinosaurs , American Indians , Jamaica , Narcotic Datura Plants , etc., etc. 230 Illustration Plates. 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