CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PACB 



I. A Day in the Oberland I 



Fertilisation of Sage — The Edelweiss — The Jungfrau's 

 Breast — Contortions of Rock-strata — The Jungfrau 

 Railway — Mountain Sickness. 



II. Switzerland in Early Summer . . . .15 



Alpine Flowers — Flowers of the Meadows and Woods 

 — The Herb Paris. 



III. GLETSCH ... ...... 22 



From Baveno to the Rhone Glacier — A Glacier by the 

 Roadside — Changes in the Glacier. 



IV. Glaciers 29 



Snow squeezed to Ice — Regelation — Movement of 

 Glaciers — Vast Size of Ancient Glaciers — Distinct 

 Glacial Periods — Causes of Glacial Periods — Date of 

 Last Glacial Extension — The Flow of Glaciers — The 

 Colour of Ice — Ice Scratching and Ice Polishing — 

 Excavation by Glaciers. 



V. The Problem of the Galloping Horse . . 52 



The Cinematograph — Ancient Representations of Gallop 

 — The Dog in Mycenaean Art — What ought an Artist 

 to do? — Attention as a Condition of Seeing — Judg- 

 ment and Prejudice — Natural and Artificial Paces — 

 Photographs by Electric Spark — Use of Instantaneous 

 Photographs — Errors as to the Size of the Moon — 

 The Painter and the Moon — The Moon on the Stage. 



VI. The Jewel in the Toad's Head .... 85 



The Decay of Credulity — A Sceptical Physician — How 

 to Test a Toadstone — Other Magical Stones — Medi- 

 cinal and Magical Stones. 



VII. Fern-seed . 96 



Invisible Seed — The Spores of Ferns — The Prothallus 

 of Ferns — Fertilisation of Figs and Palms. 



