THE 



Experimental Science Series. 



In neat 12nao volunnes, bound in cloth, fully illus- 

 trated. Price pep volume, $1.00. 



This series of scientific books for boys, girls, and students ot every age, was de- 

 signed by Prof. Alfred M. Mayer, Ph. D., of the Stevens Institute of Tecbnoiogy. 

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

 he is taught to construct his ovt^n 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 EEADY: 



I.— LIGHT, 



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

 Light, for Students of every Age. 



By ALFRED M. MAYER and CHARLES BARNARD. 



II.— SOUND: 



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

 Uound, for the Use of Students of every Age. 



By ALFRED MARSHALL MAYER, 

 Professor of Physics in the S tevens Institute of Technology ; Member of the National 

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

 theAmerlcan Academyof ArtsandSciences,Bo8ton; oftheKewTork 

 Academy of Sciences; oftheGerman Astronomical Society; of 

 the American Otological Society: and Honorary Mem- 

 ber ot the New York Ophthalmological Society. 



In Active Peepakatiok ; 



III. Vision and the Nature of Light. 

 IT. Electricity and Magnetism. 

 T. Heat. 

 TI. Mechanics. 

 TII. Chemistry. 



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

 struments. 



D. APPLETON <& CO., Publishers, 549 & 651 Broadway, l«ew York. 



