CONTENTS BY CHAPTERS 



VOLUME V. 

 ASPECTS OF RECENT SCIENCE 



CHAPTER 



I. The Most Remarkable of British Institutions of Science. 



II. The Royal Society of London and its Work. 



III. How Oxygen and Hydrogen were Liquefied, and the 



Strange Phenomena Manifested by Matter at Low 

 v Temperatures. 



IV. New Studies of the Sun and Stars; the Discovery of New 



Gases in the Atmosphere; and Revolutionary Dis- 

 coveries in Electricity and in Regard to Radium 

 and the Allied Bodies. 



V. Newest Studies of Marine Life and their Bearing on 



Theories of Heredity and of Evolution. 



VI. Professor Haeckel and his Work at Jena; his Tracing of 



Man's Line of Descent. 



VII. Pasteur, Virchow, and Koch, and the Problems of Prac- 



tical Hygiene and Preventive Medicine. 



VIII. An Outline of the Open Problems that still Await Solu- 



tion in the Various Fields of Science; What the Near 

 Future will Probably Reveal. 



IX. The Influence of Science on the Thinking Power of our 



Race and on the Progress of Civilization. 

 APPENDIX, comprising, in addition to the usual reference list, 

 (i) a List of the Sources for the History of Science as 

 quoted or cited in the five volumes; (2) a General Bibliog- 

 raphy of Literature of Science; and (3) a General Index 



