PLEASANT WAYS IN SCIENCE.

WORKS BY RICHARD A. PROCTOR.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

PLEASANT WAYS IN SCIENCE.

OXYGEN IN THE SUN.

SUN-SPOT, STORM, AND FAMINE.

NEW WAYS OF MEASURING THE SUN’S DISTANCE.

DRIFTING LIGHT-WAVES.

THE NEW STAR WHICH FADED INTO STAR-MIST.

STAR-GROUPING, STAR-DRIFT, AND STAR-MIST. A Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution on May 6, 1870.

MALLET’S THEORY OF VOLCANOES.

TOWARDS THE NORTH POLE.

A MIGHTY SEA-WAVE.

STRANGE SEA CREATURES.

ON SOME MARVELS IN TELEGRAPHY.

THE PHONOGRAPH, OR VOICE-RECORDER.

THE GORILLA AND OTHER APES.

THE USE AND ABUSE OF FOOD.

OZONE.

DEW.

THE LEVELLING POWER OF RAIN.

ANCIENT BABYLONIAN ASTROGONY.

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