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n^HE STORY OF THE MIND. By Prof. J. 



^ Mark Baldwin. 



^HE STORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY. By Al- 



^ FRED T. Story. 



^HE STORY OF LIFE IN THE SEAS. By 



-* Sydney J. Hickson. 



^HE STORY OF GERM LIFE. By H. W. 



-^ Conn, Professor of Biology, Wesleyan University ; Author of 



" The Living World," etc. 

 Y^HE STORY OF THE EARTH'S ATMOS- 

 ^ PHERE. By Douglas Archibald, Fellow and Sometime 



Vice-President of the Royal Meteorological Society, London. 

 ^HE STORY OF EXTINCT CIVILIZATIONS 

 ^ OE THE EAST. By Robert Anderson, M.A., F. A.S., 



author of " Early England," " The Stuart Period," etc. 

 Y^HE STORY OF ELECTRICITY. By John 



-^ MUNRO, C. E. 



y^HE STORY OF A PIECE OF COAL. By E. 

 ^ A. Martin, F. G. S. 



y^HF STORY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. By 

 ^ G. F. Chambers, F. R. A. S. 



Y^HE STORY OF THE EARTH. By H. G. 

 -^ Seeley, P\ R. S., Professor of Geography in King's College 

 London. 



n^IIE STORY OF THE PLANTS. By Grant 

 -^ Allen, author of " Flowers and their Pedigrees," etc. 

 HTHE STORY OF ''PRIMITIVE" MAN. By 

 -* Edward Clodd, author of " The Story of Creation," etc. 

 y^HE STORY OF THE STARS. By G. F. 

 -^ Chambers, F. R. A. S., author of " Handbook of Descriptive 

 and Practical Astronomy," etc. 



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