THE 



EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE SERIES. 



In neat 12mo volumes, bound in cloth, fully illus- 

 trated. Price per volume, $1.00. 



THIS series of scientific books for boys, girls, and students of every age, was 

 designed by Professor Alfred M. Mayer, Ph. D., of the Stevens Institute of Tech- 

 nology, Hoboken, New Jersey. Every book is addressed directly to the young 

 student, and he is taught to construct his own apparatus out of the cheapest and 

 most common materials to be found. Should the reader make all the apparatus 

 described in the first book of this series, he will spend only $12.40. 



NOW READY: 



L LIGHT : 



A Series of Simple, Entertaining, and Inexpensive Experiments in the Phenomena 

 of Light, for Students of every Age. 



By ALFRED M. MA YER and CHARLES BARNARD. 



IL SOUND : 



A Series of Simple, Entertaining, and Inexpensive Experiments in the Phenomena 

 of Sound, for the Use of Students of every Age. 



By ALFRED MARSHALL MA YER, 



Professor of Physics in the Stevens Institute of Technology ; Member of the National Academy 

 of Sciences; of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia; of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston; of the New York Academy of Sciences; 

 of the German Astronomical Society; of the American Otological Soci- 

 ety ; and Honorary Member of the New York Ophthalmological 

 Society. 



IN ACTIVE PREPARATION: 



III. Vision and the Nature of Light. 



IV. Electricity and Magnetism. 

 V. Heat. 



VI. Mechanics. 

 VII. Chemistry- 



VIII. The Art of experimenting with Cheap and Simple In- 

 struments. 



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