Science for All [Volume V]

viii, 384 pp. Color frontispiece of the spectroscope, monochrome plates, and hundreds of black-and-white illustrations in text. A collection of scientific articles contributed by numerous authors, including: An Eclipse of the Moon; Colour; A Piece of Black-Lead; Hot Ice: The Boundaries of the Liquid State of Matter; A Brown Sea-Weed; Sunset, Twilight, and Halos; Stone-Lilies and Feather-Stars; Voice; Crag and Tail; The Genesis of a Sword; How to Make a Chemical Analysis; A Piece of Chalk; The Legs and Feet of Insects; Coal-Tar; Weather-Signs and Weather-Changes; A Bar of Iron; A Seed; High Clouds and Moonshine; The Anatomy of Ants; A Lump of Sugar; Petroleum; The Earth's Treeless Regions; Weather Forecasts; The Planet Mercury; The Migration of Mammals and Fishes; Speaking Machines; Ants, and Their Ways of Life; How a Bird Flies; Voltaic Electricity; Heat as Motive Power; The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy; Structureless Animals; A Piece of Sulphur; Vortex Rings; The Ancient and Modern Animals of South America; A Mushroom; Rock-Making Rhizopods; The Distant Planets - Uranus and Neptune; What is Under London?; Hibernation of Mammals; How Waves of Light Are Measured; A Manure Heap; Warren de la Rue's Great Voltaic Battery; The Heart and the Blood; A Bee-Hive; Seeing by Telegraph; A Bar of Soap; How Molecules Are Measured; Breath and Breathing; A Coal-Field; How a Fish Swims; Fire-Damp and the Safety-Lamp; The Old Life of Europe; Is There Coal Under London?; An Iceberg; How an Animal Walks; A Clod of Earth; The Rise of the Organs of Sense; Scientific Deceptions; Birds' Nests; Water Fleas; Conclusion.