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A Flash of Lightning . . . . . . . . ,162 



Tree completely shattered by a Stroke of Lightning . .163 



Thunder-storm Clouds . . . . . . . .164 



Wireless Telegraph Station, Los Angeles . . . . . .167 



A Tornado 168 



The Effects of a Tornado 1 69 



Regains of Farm Buildings destroyed by a Tornado . . 1 70 



Waterspout Seen off the Coast of New England . . . .171 



A Southern Cotton Field 175 



Yucca Palm 176 



Camel 177 



A Laplander . . . . . . . . . . .178 



A South Sea Islander 179 



The Rocky Mountain Giant 182 



A Typical Plant 183 



A Pine Tree 189 



An Ivy Branch 190 



A Banyan Tree 191 



Different Forms which Leaves Assume . . . . . 193 



A Forest of Pines .-.198 



A Sunflower Plant .199 



Eucalyptus Leaves 200 



Flower, showing Corolla, Stamen, and Pistil . . . . .201 



Pink Gentian ' . . .201 



Mint Flower IT" . . 202 



Yucca t , or Spanish Bayonet ........ 204 



Scrub Oak Branch 206 



Mistletoe Growing on an Oak 210 



Preparing Smoked Fish at Gloucester . . . . . .214 



Disease-bearing Mosquito . . . . . . . .218 



A " Malarial" Swamp . . 219 



Earthworm . . . . . . . . . . . 220 



Butterflies on Alfalfa . . . .... . . .221 



Beehives 223 



A Human Skeleton 224 



The Nervous System of Man ........ 225 



The Lungs . 226 



The Circulatory System ......... 229 



Cross Section of the Human Heart . . . . . . 230 



Cross Section of the Human Eye ..231 



Cross Section of the Human Ear . . . . . . .231 



A Date Palm 236 



