INDEX

MODERN SCIENCE SERIES.

Edited by Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart., M. P.

I. The Cause of an Ice Age.

By Sir Robert S. Ball, LL. D., F. R. S., Royal Astronomer of Ireland.

II. The Horse:

A Study in Natural History.

By William Henry Flower, C. B., Director of the British Natural History Museum.

III. The Oak:

A Popular Introduction to Forest Botany.

By H. Marshall Ward, F. R. S.

IV. Ethnology in Folklore.

By George Lawrence Gomme, F. R. S., President of the Folklore Society, etc.

V. The Laws and Properties of Matter.

By R. T. Glazebrook, F. R. S.

VI. The Fauna of the Deep Sea.

By Sydney J. Hickson, M. A., Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.

Others in preparation.

D. APPLETON CO.’S PUBLICATIONS.

AROUND AND ABOUT SOUTH AMERICA: Twenty Months of Quest and Query. By Frank Vincent, author of “The Land of the White Elephant,” etc. With Maps, Plans, and 54 full-page Illustrations. 8vo, xxiv + 473 pages. Ornamental cloth, $5.00.

“South America, with its civilization, its resources, and its charms, is being constantly introduced to us, and as constantly surprises us.... The Parisian who thinks us all barbarians is probably not denser in his prejudices than most of us are about our Southern continent. We are content not to know, there seeming to be no reason why we should. Fashion has not yet directed her steps there, and there has been nothing to stir us out of our lethargy.... Mr. Vincent observes very carefully, is always good-humored, and gives us the best of what he sees.... The reader of his book will gain a clear idea of a marvelous country. Maps and illustrations add greatly to the value of this work.”—New York Commercial Advertiser.

“The author’s style is unusually simple and straightforward, the printing is remarkably accurate, and the forty-odd illustrations are refreshingly original for the most part.”—The Nation.

“Mr. Vincent has succeeded in giving a most interesting and valuable narrative. His account is made doubly valuable by the exceptionally good illustrations, most of them photographic reproductions. The printing of both text and plates is beyond criticism.”—Philadelphia Public Ledger.

IN AND OUT OF CENTRAL AMERICA; and other Sketches and Studies of Travel. By Frank Vincent. With Maps and Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.

“Few living travelers have had a literary success equal to Mr. Vincent’s.”—Harper’s Weekly.

“Mr. Vincent has now seen all the most interesting parts of the world, having traveled, during a total period of eleven years, two hundred and sixty-five thousand miles. His personal knowledge of man and Nature is probably as varied and complete as that of any person living.”—New York Home Journal.

BRAZIL: Its Condition and Prospects. By C. C. Andrews, ex-Consul-General to Brazil. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

“An extremely interesting account of the author’s observations and impressions of people, places, laws, customs, social usages, etc.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat.

“The author did not search solely for the worst side of things, but reports the situation as he found it, and in a fair and discriminating spirit.”—Jornal do Commercio. (Rio de Janeiro).

CHINA: Travels and Investigations in the “Middle Kingdom.” A Study of its Civilization and Possibilities. With a Glance at Japan. By James Harrison Wilson, late Major General United States Volunteers and Brevet Major General United States Army. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.

“The book presents China and Japan in all these aspects; the manners and customs of the people; the institutions, tendencies, and social ideas; the government and leading men.”—Boston Traveller.

OUTINGS AT ODD TIMES. By Charles C. Abbott, author of “Days out of Doors” and “A Naturalist’s Rambles about Home.” 16mo. Cloth, gilt top, $1.25.

“A charming little volume, literally at one with Nature, for it discusses seasons and the fields, birds, etc., with the loving freedom of a naturalist born. Every page reads like a sylvan poem; and for the lovers of the beautiful in quiet out door and out-of-town life, this beautifully bound and attractively printed little volume will prove a companion and friend.”—Rochester Union and Advertiser.

A NATURALIST’S RAMBLES ABOUT HOME. By Charles C. Abbott. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

“The home about which Dr. Abbott rambles is clearly the haunt of fowl and fish, of animal and insect life; and it is of the habits and nature of these that he discourses pleasantly in this book. Summer and winter, morning and evening, he has been in the open air all the time on the alert for some new revelation of instinct, or feeling, or character on the part of his neighbor creatures. Most that he sees and hears he reports agreeably to us, as it was no doubt delightful to himself. Books like this, which are free from all the technicalities of science, but yet lack little that has scientific value, are well suited to the reading of the young. Their atmosphere is a healthy one for boys in particular to breathe.”—Boston Transcript.

DAYS OUT OF DOORS. By Charles C. Abbott. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

“‘Days out of Doors’ is a series of sketches of animal life by Charles C. Abbott, a naturalist whose graceful writings have entertained and instructed the public before now. The essays and narratives in this book are grouped in twelve chapters, named after the months of the year. Under ‘January’ the author talks of squirrels, muskrats, water-snakes, and the predatory animals that withstand the rigor of winter; under ‘February’ of frogs and herons, crows and blackbirds; under ‘March’ of gulls and fishes and foxy sparrows; and so on appropriately, instructively, and divertingly through the whole twelve.”—New York Sun.

THE PLAYTIME NATURALIST. By Dr. J. E. Taylor, F.L.S., editor of “Science Gossip.” With 366 Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

“The work contains abundant evidence of the author’s knowledge and enthusiasm, and any boy who may read it carefully is sure to find something to attract him. The style is clear and lively, and there are many good illustrations.”—Nature.

THE ORIGIN OF FLORAL STRUCTURES through Insects and other Agencies. By the Rev. George Henslow, Professor of Botany, Queen’s College. With numerous Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.

“Much has been written on the structure of flowers, and it might seem almost superfluous to attempt to say anything more on the subject, but it is only within the last few years that a new literature has sprung up, in which the authors have described their observations and given their interpretations of the uses of floral mechanisms, more especially in connection with the processes of fertilization.”—From Introduction.

THE GARDEN’S STORY; or, Pleasures and Trials of an Amateur Gardener. By George H. Ellwanger. With Head and Tail Pieces by Rhead. 12mo. Cloth, extra, $1.50.

“Mr. Ellwanger’s instinct rarely errs in matters of taste. He writes out of the fullness of experimental knowledge, but his knowledge differs from that of many a trained cultivator in that his skill in garden practice is guided by a refined æsthetic sensibility, and his appreciation of what is beautiful in nature is healthy, hearty, and catholic. His record of the garden year, as we have said, begins with the earliest violet, and it follows the season through until the witch-hazel is blossoming on the border of the wintry woods.... This little book can not fail to give pleasure to all who take a genuine interest in rural life.”—New York Tribune.

THE ORIGIN OF CULTIVATED PLANTS. By Alphonse de Candolle. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.

“Though a fact familiar to botanists, it is not generally known how great is the uncertainty as to the origin of many of the most important cultivated plants.... In endeavoring to unravel the matter, a knowledge of botany, of geography, of geology, of history, and of philosophy is required. By a combination of testimony derived from these sources M. de Candolle has been enabled to determine the botanical origin and geographical source of the large proportion of species he deals with.”—The Athenæum.

THE FOLK-LORE OF PLANTS. By T. F. Thiselton Dyer, M.A. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

“A handsome and deeply interesting volume.... In all respects the book is excellent. Its arrangement is simple and intelligible, its style bright and alluring.... To all who seek an introduction to one of the most attractive branches of folk-lore, this delightful volume may be warmly commended.”—Notes and Queries.

FLOWERS AND THEIR PEDIGREES. By Grant Allen, author of “Vignettes of Nature,” etc. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

“No writer treats scientific subjects with so much ease and charm of style as Mr. Grant Allen. The study is a delightful one, and the book is fascinating to any one who has either love for flowers or curiosity about them.”—Hartford Courant.

“Any one with even a smattering of botanical knowledge, and with either a heart or mind, must be charmed with this collection of essays.”—Chicago Evening Journal.

THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. By Sir J. William Dawson, F.R.S. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.

“The object of this work is to give, in a connected form, a summary of the development of the vegetable kingdom in geological time. To the geologist and botanist the subject is one of importance with reference to their special pursuits, and one on which it has not been easy to find any convenient manual of information. It is hoped that its treatment in the present volume will also be found sufficiently simple and popular to be attractive to the general reader.”—From the Preface.

THE ICE AGE IN NORTH AMERICA, and its Bearings upon the Antiquity of Man. By G. Frederick Wright, D. D., LL. D. With 152 Maps and Illustrations. Third edition, containing Appendix on the “Probable Cause of Glaciation,” by Warren Upham, F.G.S.A., and Supplementary Notes. 8vo. 625 pages, and complete Index. Cloth, $5.00.

“Prof. Wright’s work is great enough to be called monumental. There is not a page that is not instructive and suggestive. It is sure to make a reputation abroad as well as at home for its distinguished author, as one of the most active and intelligent of the living students of natural science and the special department of glacial action.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.

THE GREAT ICE AGE, and its Relation to the Antiquity of Man. By James Geikie, F.R.S.E., of H. M. Geological Survey of Scotland. With Maps and Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $2.50.

A systematic account of the Glacial epoch in England and Scotland, with special reference to its changes of climate.

THE CAUSE OF AN ICE AGE. By Sir Robert Ball, LL. D., F.R.S., Royal Astronomer of Ireland, author of “Starland.” The first volume in the Modern Science Series, edited by Sir John Lubbock. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.

“An exceedingly bright and interesting discussion of some of the marvelous physical revolutions of which our earth has been the scene. Of the various ages traced and located by scientists, none is more interesting or can be more so than the Ice age, and never have its phenomena been more clearly and graphically described, or its causes more definitely located, than in this thrillingly interesting volume.”—Boston Traveller.

TOWN GEOLOGY. By the Rev. Charles Kingsley, F.L.S., F.G.S., Canon of Chester. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

“I have tried rather to teach the method of geology than its facts; to furnish the student with a key to all geology; rough indeed and rudimentary, but sure and sound enough, I trust, to help him to unlock most geological problems which may meet him in any quarter of the globe.”—From the Preface.

AN AMERICAN GEOLOGICAL RAILWAY GUIDE. Giving the Geological Formation along the Railroads, with Altitude above Tide-water, Notes on Interesting Places on the Routes, and a Description of each of the Formations. By James Macfarlane, Ph. D., and more than Seventy-five Geologists. Second edition, 426 pp., 8vo. Cloth, $2.50.

“The idea is an original one.... Mr. Macfarlane has produced a very convenient and serviceable hand-book, available alike to the practical geologist, to the student of that science, and to the intelligent traveler who would like to know the country through which he is passing.”—Boston Evening Transcript.

WORKS BY ARABELLA B. BUCKLEY (MRS. FISHER).

THE FAIRY-LAND OF SCIENCE. With 74 Illustrations. Cloth, gilt, $1.50.

“Deserves to take a permanent place in the literature of youth.”—London Times.

“So interesting that, having once opened the book, we do not know how to leave off reading.”—Saturday Review.

THROUGH MAGIC GLASSES and other Lectures. A Sequel to “The Fairy-Land of Science.” Cloth, $1.50.

CONTENTS.

The Magician’s Chamber by Moonlight.

Magic Glasses and How to Use Them.

Fairy Rings and How They are Made.

The Life-history of Lichens and Mosses.

The History of a Lava-Stream.

An Hour with the Sun.

An Evening with the Stars.

Little Beings from a Miniature Ocean.

The Dartmoor Ponies.

The Magician’s Dream of Ancient Days.

LIFE AND HER CHILDREN: Glimpses of Animal Life from the Amœba to the Insects. With over 100 Illustrations. Cloth, gilt, $1.50.

“The work forms a charming introduction to the study of zoölogy—the science of living things—which, we trust, will find its way into many hands.”—Nature.

WINNERS IN LIFE’S RACE; or, The Great Backboned Family. With numerous Illustrations. Cloth, gilt, $1.50.

“We can conceive no better gift-book than this volume. Miss Buckley has spared no pains to incorporate in her book the latest results of scientific research. The illustrations in the book deserve the highest praise—they are numerous, accurate, and striking.”—Spectator.

A SHORT HISTORY OF NATURAL SCIENCE; and of the Progress of Discovery from the Time of the Greeks to the Present Time. New edition, revised and rearranged. With 77 Illustrations. Cloth, $2.00.

“The work, though mainly intended for children and young persons, may be most advantageously read by many persons of riper age, and may serve to implant in their minds a fuller and clearer conception of ‘the promises, the achievements, and claims of science.’”—Journal of Science.

MORAL TEACHINGS OF SCIENCE. Cloth, 75 cents.

“The book is intended for readers who would not take up an elaborate philosophical work—those who, feeling puzzled and adrift in the present chaos of opinion, may welcome even a partial solution, from a scientific point of view, of the difficulties which oppress their minds.”—From the Preface.

Recent Volumes of the International Scientific Series.

A HISTORY OF CRUSTACEA. By Rev. Thomas R. R. Stebbing, M.A., author of “The Challenger Amphipoda,” etc. With numerous Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.

“Mr. Stebbing’s account of ‘Recent Malacostraca’ (soft-shelled animals) is practically complete, and is based upon the solid foundations of science. The astonishing development of knowledge in this branch of natural history is due to the extension of marine research, the perfecting of the microscope, and the general diffusion of information regarding what has been ascertained concerning the origin of species.... This volume is fully illustrated, and contains useful references to important authorities. It is an able and meritorious survey of recent crustacea.”—Philadelphia Ledger.

“In all respects an admirable piece of work.”—The Churchman.

“One of the most valuable and entertaining volumes in the series.... The author is master of an engaging style, and offers words of cheer and counsel to the beginner who may be dismayed by the bewildering riches of the crustacean world. Every branch of the subject treated is presented in the most interesting and significant light.”—London Saturday Review.

HANDBOOK OF GREEK AND LATIN PALÆOGRAPHY. By Edward Maunde Thompson, D.C.L., Principal Librarian of the British Museum. With numerous Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.

“Mr. Thompson, as principal librarian of the British Museum, has of course had very exceptional advantages for preparing his book.... Probably all teachers of the classics, as well as specialists in palæography, will find something of value in this systematic treatise upon a rather unusual and difficult study.”—Review of Reviews.

“A well-arranged manual from the hands of a competent authority.... Of the nineteen chapters contained in the volume, seven deal with preliminary topics, as the history of the Greek and the Latin alphabets, writing materials, the forms of books, punctuation, measurement of lines, shorthand, abbreviations, and contractions; five are devoted to Greek palæography, seven to Latin.”—The Critic.

“Covering as this volume does such a vast period of time, from the beginning of the alphabet and the ways of writing down to the seventeenth century, the wonder is how, within three hundred and thirty-three pages, so much that is of practical usefulness has been brought together.”—New York Times.

MAN AND THE GLACIAL PERIOD. By G. Frederick Wright, D.D., LL.D., author of “The Ice Age in North America,” “Logic of Christian Evidences,” etc. With numerous Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.

“The author is himself an independent student and thinker whose competence and authority are undisputed.”—New York Sun.

“It may be described in a word as the best summary of scientific conclusions concerning the question of man’s antiquity as affected by his known relations to geological time.”—Philadelphia Press.

“The earlier chapters describing glacial action, and the traces of it in North America—especially the defining of its limits, such as the terminal moraine of the great movement itself—are of great interest and value. The maps and diagrams are of much assistance in enabling the reader to grasp the vast extent of the movement.”—London Spectator.

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  1. P. [70], changed “japonicus” to “M. japonicus”.
  2. P. [150], changed “fibres” to “fishes”.
  3. .Moved advertising between half-title & Frontispiece to between the [index] and the other advertising.
  4. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  5. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.