PREFACE.
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.
