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Show ANNOUNCING A SPECIAL PRE-PUBLICATIO- ON ONE OF OFFER N THE GREATEST COLLECTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC LORE EVER ASSEMBLED n X ft 7 XT .1 SMITHSONIAN TREASURY OF SCIENCE A' 4 r PARTIAL CONTENTS Three handsome boxed volumes (1,200 pages; nearly 500,000 words), lavishly illustrated; containing dramatic and important writings from America's great repository of scientific information. Edited, with commentaries, by Webster P, True, Former Chief of the Editorial and Publications Division, Smithsonian Institution. Volume I , more than one hundred years, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C has been one of the great international clearing houses of scientific innovation and discovery. Millions of people have passed through its fascinating museums, art galleries, and zoological park. But the Smithsonian's most important function is its service as a repository of vital information from the world of science. Among its matchless records are original reports made by great astronomers, geologists, physicists, biologists, and anthropologists on their startling discoveries, flashes of insight, inventions, and brilliant as well as news of conquests of the unknown and startling applications of the new ingenious discoveries. Now a lavish selection from this wealth of scientific lore is being made available in a monumental home the Smithsonian Treasury or Science. library Its three huge volumes, illustrated with 150 rare photos and drawings, range across every major area of scientific knowledge . . . backward and forward in time . .". into strange and exotic places , . . under the sea and into outer space. Here, in more than 1200 pages, is all the excitement of science from archaeology and zoology to nuclear Exploration into the staggering immensity of space. Is it curved? Is the universe really -- Special j tiV-rt.uS- l through our Oak Ridge atomic reactor: how radioactive particles unlock life's secrets, diagnose and treat disease, etc. LI y Bro. Olidar forerunner of powered plane at Kitty Hawk. Wright our universe "only" 6,000 million years old . . . instead of a million million years? Is the for, mation of planets like ours commonplace? SUNSPOTS. Extraordinary discoveries about the effect of solar eruption on us. Roentgen takes you back to 1901 when he discovered that mysterious rays can pass through almost any substance. Henry Garland describes today's uses of in many areas of science from physics to teat-In- Volume II EARTH'S ORIGIN. 1,000,000 a year round the world yet we are more puzzled than EARTHQUAKES. ever about what causes them. Why tide rises 50 feet in Bay of Fundy . . . TIDES. and almost not at all in other places. Why Tahiti's tide comes in almost exactly at noon and midnight. . X-ra- ys W.M F. L. and how they're created. A CAMOUFLAGE. THE ELEMENTS. the Where do chemical elements come from? Which are plentiful, which scarce in the universe? How Na- WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. , . . . Zone : yS Jr eelertlon of THK LIBRARY PLANE PANORAMA. 50 years of air progress, from Kitty Hawk to modern liners. jet- CROSSING. ANTARCTIC A. Ellsworth recounts how he made the first trek across the South Polar ice cap. EASTER ISLAND. What "lost tribes" created these brooding stone statues that dominate this remote and lonely' Pacific island? STONE-AG- E GERY. ENZYMES. Latest facts on how these marvelous sub- -, stances "trigger" complex reactions in your body. tually performed brain surgery with stone instruments. SKULL SUR- Startling evidence that ancient peoples ac- FISH BREEDING. Courtship, nest building, and egg laying habits of migrating salmon and trout. A "DEAD" FISH LIVES. The "living fossil" Coelacanth, a fish thought millions of years extinct till its recent discovery. $ - Raymond Ditmars tells what it's like to explore a cave filled with thousands of bats. blood-drinki- ng Coelacanth Dredged from aea off Africa; a IWInc relic of 1 .000,000 B.C. Our ancestors of 1,000,000 B.C. had already initiated something like our family life. MAN-APE- S. IANGLEY The 5 convincing factors that make EVOLUTION. evolution work. . HURRICANES. New hurri cane knowledge and ON FLIGHT. An historic report by a pioneer who flew an unmanned, Lut in powered, "airdrome" 1896. THE WRIGHT BROTHERS. periments which proved that radio waves are Wer the How they came closer and closer to the first thrilling moment of manned flight. How these ferocious-warrior- s travel in 50-- b columns The world's highest dam COSMIC RAYS. What we know so far about these elu- continuously boma ran primitive man or an early ape? forecasting may mean eventual control of these dreaded catastrophes. sive particles which .... State ............. . invisibility. Marconi himself relates his early ex- . EREC-TUS- Discovery of fossil bones in Java. Are they ture's more helpless creatures "learned" the art of " ?. . POT. Is America PITHECANTHROPUS (ruusi print) SAVI POSTAOa. diet here If you ENCLOSE 1 13.95 art wiut thla coupon as payment la full then WE PAT poatace. per 8ame three- waa return privilege refund guaranteed. IN. T. City reU aalaa tax per Bat.) Complete of this fascinating man? Is AGE OF THE UNIVERSE. ... . , LOCUST. creating a new race of ARMY ANTS. . Itallnn. Marconi IrtihtookInvantor How Ameri- who out f irat can Indians patent on "wira-ica- a teleKraphy" used narcot- In 1902, pared for modern ics and stim- way radio and TV. ulants wisely and not so wisely. MELTING earth's curvature. Address NARCOTICS. u . 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This A OUR UNIVERSE. vividly described and pictured. physics In sum: the Smithsonian Treasury of Science decade publications is one of those rare, once-in-- a which combine vital importance with sheer reading pleasure. It educates and enchants. Wlten these three volumes come off press in the fall of 1960, a genuine the result of a hundred years? American treasure of pursuit knowledge will at last be truly accessible for you and your family to pore over, profit from and enjoy. Money-Savin- g ON NEWTON. EINSTEIN great intellect pays tribute to another. Einstein shows how Newton influenced all later thinking, helped make our world what it is today. J. Edgar Hoover tells how the F.B.I, CRIME DETECTION. bard us from outer space. foot-wi- r'rerni'example of preblatorle brain Mirgery. de destroying practically all living things in their path, BUILDING BOULDER DAM. and how it was built in an inaccessible region in 130 temperatu res- AN0 MANY OTHER fascinat- ing accounts of scientific importance. -- |