CONTENTS
List of Illustrations [ xi]
The Marvels of Nature [ xiii]
By Professor E.S. Holden.
what The Earth's Crust is Made of [ 1]
by Agnes Giberne.
America The Old World [ 45]
By Louis Agassiz.
Some Records of the Rocks [ 77]
By N.S. Shaler.
The Pitch Lake in the West Indies [ 97]
By Charles Kingsley.
A Stalagmite Cave [ 111]
By Sir C. Wyville Thomson.
The Big Trees of California [ 119]
by Alfred Russel Wallace.
what is Evolution? [ 127]
By Professor Edward S. Holden.
How the Soil is Made [ 135]
By Charles Darwin.
zoölogical Myths [ 143]
By Andrew Wilson.
On a Piece of Chalk [ 171]
By T.H. Huxley.
A Bit of Sponge [ 205]
BY A. WILSON.
The Greatest Sea-Wave Ever Known [ 211]
By R.A. Proctor.
The Phosphorescent Sea [ 228]
By W.S. Dallas.
COMETS, [ 251]
By Camille Flammarion.
The Total Solar Eclipse of 1883 [ 261]
By E.S. Holden.
Halos—Parhelia—the Spectre of the Brocken, etc. [ 268]
By Camille Flammarion.
The Planet Venus [ 282]
By Agnes M. Clerke.
The Stars [ 296]
By Sir R.S. Ball.
Rain and Snow [ 342]
By John Tyndall.
The Organic World [ 357]
By St. George Mivart.
Inhabitants of My Pool [ 366]
By Arabella B. Buckley.
Biographical Notes [ 387]
Suggestions for Supplementary Reading [ 389]
NOTE.
The publishers' acknowledgments are due to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for permission to use "America and the Old World," by L. Agassiz; to Messrs. D.C. Heath & Co. for permission to use "Some Records of the Rocks," by Professor N.S. Shaler; and to Professor E.S. Holden for permission to use "What is Evolution?" and "An Astronomer's Voyage to Fairy Land."