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
WHEN THE DEW FALLS
3. Grass blade with dew deposit—three drops held in suspension on top of blade
4. Showing how sharp pointed grasses collect and retain the dew drops, while blunt or broken blades collect none
5. Grass-blade holding two drops—dew drop preparing to fall
