Table of Contents 



Australian exploration. Fly -catching plants. Black rain. 

 Graphite in Siberia. Welwitschia. Spectroscopy. Moraines in 

 Britain. Balloon ascents. Survey of Jerusalem. Lake Albert 

 Nyanza. Eozoon Canadense. Elgin reptiliferous sandstone. 

 New Zealand lizard. Thames subway. Arsenic. Travels in 

 the Atlas. Fog signals. Effect of strain on polarized light. 

 Deep-sea cable. The radiometer. Bursting of shells. Gigantic 

 tortoises. Vitality of seeds. Geology of Tangiers. Artificial 

 rubies. The planet Mars. Bacillus of splenic fever. Com- 

 posite photographs. White-ants. Edison's electric light. 

 Remarkable emerald. Solar Spectroscopy. Ancient medicine 

 stamp. Artificial diamonds. Freshwater medusa. Clouds. 

 Fish in hot springs. Colour blindness. Ice at Niagara. Solar 

 energy. Lightning in Bermuda. Transit of Venus. Rowlands' 

 grating. Eruption of Krakatoa. Anthropometric records. 

 Commensal fish. Colour in crystals. A plant fish-trap. Vege- 

 tation of Kilimanjaro. Edible bird's nests. Discovery of 

 Germanium. A giant hydroid. Eruption of Niau-fu. The 

 yeast-plant. Deep-sea fishes. Chimpanzee and pygmies. 

 Pearls in cocoa-nuts. Electric safety -lamps. Quartz-crystals. 

 Flora of the Canaries. Zero of temperature. Beryl crystal. 

 Compound of nickel and carbon monoxide. Fossil mammals 

 at Barrington. Ants and captive spiders. Stable and unstable 

 periodic orbits. Antitoxins. The Glossopteris flora. Liquid 

 air. Distant earthquake shocks. The Surinam Toad. 

 Photographic plates, metals and vegetable oils. The Univer- 

 sity of Sydney. Boring at the atoll of Funafuti. Thorium 

 gas-mantles. The Garial. Old volcano in island of Arran 



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INDEX - - 265-286 



