CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. A DAY IN THE OBERLAND i 



Fertilisation of Sage The Edelweiss The Jungfrau's 

 Breast Contortions of Rock-strata The Jungfrau 

 Railway Mountain Sickness. 



II. SWITZERLAND IN EARLY SUMMER . . . -15 



Alpine Flowers Flowers of the Meadows and Woods 

 The Herb Paris. 



III. GLETSCH ... ..... 22 



From Baveno to the Rhone Glacier A Glacier by the 

 Roadside Changes in the Glacier. 



IV. GLACIERS 29 



Snow squeezed to Ice Regelation Movement of 

 Glaciers Vast Size of Ancient Glaciers Distinct 

 Glacial Periods Causes of Glacial Periods Date of 

 Last Glacial Extension The Flow of Glaciers The 

 Colour of Ice Ice Scratching and Ice Polishing 

 Excavation by Glaciers. 



V. THE PROBLEM OF THE GALLOPING HORSE . . 52 



The Cinematograph Ancient Representations of Gallop 

 The Dog in Mycenaean Art What ought an Artist 

 to do ? Attention as a Condition of Seeing Judg- 

 ment and Prejudice Natural and Artificial Paces 

 Photographs by Electric Spark Use of Instantaneous 

 Photographs Errors as to the Size of the Moon 

 The Painter and the Moon The Moon on the Stage. 



VI. THE JEWEL IN THE TOAD'S HEAD .... 85 



The Decay of Credulity A Sceptical Physician How 

 to Test a Toadstone Other Magical Stones Medi- 

 cinal and Magical Stones. 



VII. FERN-SEED . 96 



Invisible Seed The Spores of Ferns The Prothallus 

 of Ferns Fertilisation of Figs and Palms, 

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