ILLUSTRATIONS
[A Winter Scene] Frontispiece FACING PAGE [3. Grass blade with dew deposit] 5 [4. Showing how sharp-pointed grasses collect and retain the dewdrops] 5 [5. Grass blade holding two drops] 5 [6. Dewdrop on grass blade] 5 [7. Spider’s web entire] 9 [8. Detail section of spider’s web dew-laden] 9 [9. A dew-laden strawberry leaf] 13 [10. Dewdrop caught on vegetable hairs] 13 [11. The sleeping caterpillar was a good subject] 13 [12. The surface of a leaf dew-covered] 13 [13. Dew caught and held upon the down of plant stem] 14 [14. Dew upon the down of a leaf] 14 [17. Hoar-frost deposit upon a stick] 18 [18. Dainty lace-like formation of hoar frost] 18 [19. Winter tabular hoar frost resembling a group of butterflies] 18 [20. Like a piece of bleached coral] 22 [21. Tabular hoar frost] 22 [22. Tree form tabular hoar frost which grew in zero weather] 22 [23. A winter type of hoar frost] 26 [24. Columnar hoar frost upon a decaying log] 26 [25. Striking arrangement of hoar-frost crystals] 26 [26. Showing hoar-frost elaboration] 33 [27. Hoar-frost deposit upon grass blades] 33 [28. Moss-like hoar frost deposited upon surface of pond] 37 [29. Columnar hoar frost scattered over brook ice] 37 [30. An odd hoar-frost formation] 41 [31. Detail tabular hoar frost] 41 [32. Detail tabular hoar-frost crystals] 41 [33. Cup-form hoar frost] 41 [34a. Columnar hoar-frost crystals] 45 [34b. Columnar hoar frost] 45 [35. Linear-type window-pane frost] 46 [36. Showing initials crudely scratched upon glass] 46 [37. An exquisite lace pattern in frost] 50 [38. A beautiful example of two distinct types] 54 [39. Fern-like scrolls, delicate background] 54 [40. A perfect fern leaf] 58 [41. Raised fern-like arrangement] 58 [42. Showing in detail granular frost] 58 [43. Graceful feathers with curling ends] 62 [44. Strikingly beautiful example] 62 [45. One of Jack Frost’s masterpieces] 69 [46. A mass of feathers scattered upon glass] 69 [47. Sometimes Jack Frost sketches oak leaves] 73 [48. Detail of frost crystals largely magnified] 73 [49. Twigs and leaves] 77 [50. Branch-like arrangement of twigs] 77 [51. Moss-like arrangement of frost] 78 [52. Twin freaks] 78 [53. An unusual design] 82 [54. A powdering of small flowers] 82 [55. A maple-leaf etching] 86 [56. Find the frost spider] 86 [57. Two distinct types of window-pane frost] 90 [58. Curious design suggesting a spider web] 90 [59. One of the choicest designs of window frost] 97 [60. A design of frost work from “the land of the pointed firs”] 97 [61. Blizzard type] 101 [62. Exquisite jewelled type] 101 [63. Solid, big-storm type] 105 [64. A very symmetrical crystal] 105 [65. High-altitude crystal] 105 [66. Freak crystal formed by broken sections uniting] 105 [68. Air inclusions unusually clear] 109 [69. Low-altitude type] 109 [70. Local-storm crystal] 110 [71. Freak trigonal crystal] 110 [72. Elaborately etched] 110 [73. The cuff-button crystals] 114 [74. Low-cloud crystal] 114 [75. A beautifully marked high-altitude crystal] 114 [76. Crystal coated with granular snow] 118 [77. Having flower-like petals] 118 [78. Very intricate design] 122 [79. Showing a perfect star] 122 [80. Frigid-altitude crystal] 126 [81. High- and low-altitude type combined] 126 [82. Having beautifully etched center] 126 [83. A diamond pendant] 126 [84. Clean-cut prism-like crystal from high altitude] 133 [85. Suggesting a Masonic emblem] 133 [86. The Egyptian crystal] 133 [87. Unusually symmetrical and clearly defined] 137 [88. Singular detail] 137 [89. Trigonal crystal] 137 [90. Young germ crystals] 141 [91. Granular pellet crystals] 141 [92. Columnar six-sided type] 141 [93. Sleet, sharp and stinging] 142 [94. Old snow, re-crystallised] 146 [95. Freak crystal] 146 [96. Snow rollers] 150 [97. Scattered like huge muffs over large tracts of land] 150 [98. A freak crystal] 154 [99. Two broken crystals united] 154 [100. A society emblem] 154 [101. A twin crystal] 154 [102. A feathery type] 161 [103. Leaf-like terminations] 161 [104. Delicately etched centre] 165 [105. High-altitude crystal] 165 [106. Solid type] 169 [107. Star type] 169 [108. Very unusual centre formation] 169 [109. Mosaic like] 169 [110. Feathery type] 173 [111. Clear prism-like branches] 173 [112. Solid type] 173 [113. Low-altitude crystal] 173 [114. Having notably elaborate centre] 174 [115. Very elaborate design] 174 [116. The arrow crystal] 174 [117. Low-altitude type] 174 [118. High-altitude crystal] 178 [119. A daintily etched centre design] 178 [120. Branchy trigonal crystal] 182 [121. An uncommon type] 182 [122. One of the most elaborate crystals shown] 186 [123. A rare design because of its open petal-like formation] 186 [124. Very frigid altitude crystal having remarkably etched centre] 186 [125. A snow crystal covered with granular deposit of frost] 186 [126. Local-storm type] 190 [127. Cold high altitude] 190 [128. Germ or birth of ice crystal] 197 [129. Second stage in which crimps begin to appear] 197 [130. Third stage of development] 197 [131. Fourth stage flower-like shape beginning to show] 201 [132. Ice flower completed] 201 [133. Flower-like shape fully formed] 201 [134. Ice flower beginning to show shadings] 201 [135. Ice crystals growing downward into the brook] 205 [136. Group of ice crystals] 205 [137. Lance-like form seen pushing out from banks of brooks] 205 [138. Second stage of lance-like ice crystals] 206 [139. Lance-like form completed] 206 [140a. Freak ice crystals] 206 [140b. Group of ice crystals containing germs] 206 [141a. Coral-like branch showing the “feather type” in detail] 210 [141b. Window-pane ice] 210 [142. Beautiful type of window-ice growing like delicate seaweed] 214 [143. Window-pane ice] 214 [144. Another type of window-pane ice] 214 [145. An example of columnar ice] 218 [146. Columnar ice] 218 [147. Columnar ice, section shown in detail] 218 [148. Very great thunder-storm drops] 222 [149. Rain from cirro-stratus high clouds] 222 [150. Rain from low nimbus clouds] 222 [151. Thunder- and hail-storm type] 226 [152. From a great rain storm which lasted 15 hours] 226 [153. Thunder cloud] 230 [154. Nimbus or low stratus clouds] 230