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 fle* 

 figned by Prof. Alfred M. Mayer, Ph. D., of the Stevens Institute of Tedinoloi.y, 

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

 be 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: 



I.— LIGHT, 



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

 Light, for Students of every Age. 



By ALFRED M. MATEB and CHARLES BARNAUD. 



II.— SOUND: 



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

 bound, for the Use of Students of every Age. 



By ALFRED MARSHALL MA TER, 

 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 Otolofrical Society; and Honorary Mem- 

 ber of the New York Ophthalmological Society. 



In Actiyk Pbepakatiok; 



III. Vision and the Nature of Light. 



IV. Electricity and Magnetism. 

 V. Heat. 



TI. Mechanics. 

 VII. Chemistry. 



VIII. The Art of experimer ting -with Cheap and Simple In- 

 struments. 



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