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Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
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A GEYSER
Young Folks' Library in Twenty Volumes
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Editor-in-Chief
WONDERS
of
EARTH, SEA and SKY
EDITED BY
EDWARD SINGLETON HOLDEN
VOLUME XI
BOSTON
HALL AND LOCKE COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
1902
Stanhope Press
P.H. GILSON COMPANY
BOSTON, U.S.A.
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 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."