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CONTENTS OF 



VOL. I., price Is. 6d., in handsome boards- 

 PART I., price 5d. 



1. The Planets; Are they Inhabited 



Globes ? 



2. Weather Prognostics. 



3. The Planets. Chap. II. 



4. Popular Fallacies in Questions of 



Physical Science. 



PART II., price 5d. 



5. Latitudes and Longitudes. 



6. The Planets. Chap. III. 



7. Lunar Influences. 



8 Meteoric Stones and Shooting Stars. 

 Chap. I. 



PART III., price 6d. 

 9. Railway Accidents. Chap. I. 



10. The Planets. Chap. IV. 



11. Meteoric Stones and Shooting Stars. 



Chap. II. 



12. Railway Accidents. Chap. II. 



13. Light. 



VOL. Ill, price 1 

 PART VII., price 5d. 



27. Locomotion and Transport, their 



Influence and Progress. Chap. I. 



28. The Moon. 



29. Common Things. The Earth. 



80. Locomotion and Transport, their 

 Influence and Progress. Chap. II 



PART VIII., price 5d. 

 31. The Electric Telegraph. Chap. I. 



VOL. U.jpricels. 6d., in handsome boards 



PART IV., price 5d. 



14. Common Things. Air. 



15. Locomotion in the United State* 



Chap. I. 



16. Cometary Influences. Chap. I. 



17. Locomotion in the United States 



Chap. II. 



PART V., price 5d. 



18. Common Things. Water. 



19. The Potter's Art. Chap. I. 



20. Locomotion in the United State* 



Chap. III. 



21. The Potter's Art. Chap. II. 



PART VI., price 6d. 



22. Common Things. Fire. 



23. The Potter's Art. Chap. III. 



24. Cometary Influences. Chap. II. 



25. The Potter's Art. Chap. IV. 



26. The Potter's Art. Chap. V. 



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32. Terrestrial Heat. Chap. I. 



33. The Electric Telegraph. Chap. II. 



34. The Sun. 



PART IX., price 6d. 



35. The Electric Telegraph. Chap. III. 



36. Terrestrial Heat. Chap. II. 



37. The Electric Telegraph. Chap. IV. 



38. The Electric Telegraph. Chap. V. 



39. The Electric Telegraph. Chap. VI. 



