THE 



Experimental Science Series. 



In neat 12mo volumes, bound in cloth, fully illus- 

 trated.. Price per volume, $1.00. 



Tnis series of scientific books for boys, girls, and students ol every age, was de- 

 signed by Prof. Alfred M. Mayer, Ph. D., of the Stevens Institute of Technology, 

 Hoboken, New Jersey. Every book is addressed directly to the young student, and 

 he is taught to construct his own apparatus out of the cheapest and most common 

 materials to be found. Should the reader make all the apparatus described in the first 

 book of this series, he will spend only $12.40. 



NOW EEADY: 



I.— LIGHT. 



A Series of Simple, Entertaining, and Inexpensive Experiments in the Phenomena of 



Light, for Students of every Age. 



By ALFRED M. MAYER and CHARLES BARNARD. 



II.— SOUND: 



A Series of Simple, Entertaining, and Inexpensive Experiments in the Phenomena of 

 Souud, for the Use of Students of every Age. 



By ALFRED MARSHALL MATER, 



Professor of Physics in the Stevens Institute of Technology ; Member of the National 

 Academy of Sciences; of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia; of 

 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston ; of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences ; of the German Astronomical Society ; of 

 the American Otological Society ; and Honorary Mem- 

 ber of the New York Ophthalmological Society. 



In Active Preparation ; 



III. Vision and. the Nature of Light. 



IV. Electricity and Magnetism. 

 V. Heat. 



YI. Mechanics. 

 VII. Chemistry. 



VIII. The Art of experimenting with Cheap and Simple In- 

 struments. 



D. APPLET ON dt CO., Publishers, 549 & 551 Broadway, New York. 



