Volume 3

Popular science / edited by Arthur Mee.

Date:
1912-1913
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Credit: Popular science / edited by Arthur Mee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF VOLUME THREE PAGE GROUP 1—THE UNIVERSE IDEAS OF WORLD-MAKING The Latest Theory of How the Different Heavenly Systems Took Their Present Positions and Motions.... 1197 WHENCE AND WHITHER ? Have the Sun, the Earth, and Man Any Preferential Position in Immensity ? 1*117 THE SUN THE LORD OF LIFE The Mighty Voice of Our Ruling Star Thrilling Through Immensity in Electrical Vibrations 1737 SECRET OF THE SUN'S POWER Whence Does the Sun Derive tire Energy so Prodigally Dispersed Through Space ? 1837 THE CLOUDS OF THE SUN Revelations Arrived at by Direct Observation and by an Analysis of Sunlight 1977 OUTER PARTS OF THE SUN Photographing by the Use of the Spectroscope Things Invisible in the Sun’s Blinding Light 2097 PAGE GROUP 4—PLANT LIFE THE TREATMENT OF PLANTS Dwarfing and Shaping Trees and Opening Them to the Sun, with Cross Fertilisation and Transplantation .... 1323 PROPAGATION OF PLANTS Artificial Reproduction by Cutting and Layering,' Budding and Grafting. Problems of Hybridisation 1645 THE ENERGY OF PLANTS The Wonderful Sun-Drawn Rush of Life Through All the Earth’s Eager and Irresistible Growths 1767 THE BASIS OF PLANT LIFE Protoplasm, the Stuff from which All the Varieties of Plant Life Spring and are Fed 1881 A PLANT’S FIRST GROWTH Conditions of the Germination of Seeds, and Their Purposeful Stroke Downward and Upward 2001 PLANTS AS STOREHOUSES How Plants, by Garnering Rich Foodstuffs for their Own Progeny, Feed Mankind 2127 GROUP 2—THE EARTH THE CONTENTS OF THE AIR The Commingled Constituents of the Gas ; Its Elasticity, Weight, Humidity, and Useful Dustiness 1305 ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS How the Heat and Flow of the Air are Measured, and How Weather Wisdom is Sought 1623 THE WONDERS OF WATER Where It Comes from ; How It Was Made ; and Why It Varies in Its Composition 1717 ROMANCE OF THE SEA-BEDS Does the Great Pacific Ocean Fill a Huge Rent from Which the Moon was Torn ? 1865 THE TRAVEL OF THE WATERS The Plunging Sea Draws Backward from the Land Her Moon-led Waters White 1985 A STUDY OF SEA-WAVES Their Formation, Height, Depth, Force, Destructive Power, and the Problem of Coast Defence 2107 GROUP 3—LIFE WHERE DARWINISM HALTS It Does not See Life Finding by Inward Impulsion a Highway Up to the Mind of Man 1313 ONENESS OF LIFE AND MIND Mind the Underlying Motive-Force of the Living World Aiming to Transcend Itself 1637 A NEW STUDY OF HEREDITY Hereditary Resemblances and Hereditary Differences : Complementary Aspects of the Same Thing 1757 STUDIES IN HEREDITY How Darwin and Galton Made a New Scientific Ortho doxy which has Already Been Superseded 1873 THE' GERM-PLASM THEORY How Far Life, Passed on from Generation to Generat ion, Belongs to the Race, or is Modified by the Individual. .1993 THE REVOLUTION OF MENDEL The Monk who, Experimenting with the Growth of Peas in the Abbey Garden, Changed 1 lie Current of Scientific Thought 2117 GROUP 5—ANIMAL LIFE THE ANTELOPE FAMILY A Group of Animals Inhabiting all Uncultivated Lands, from Jagged Mountain Tops to Sandy Plains 1533 ANIMAL HOME-BUILDERS The Intelligence that, Through the Beavers, Finds Expression in Elaborate Engineering Works 1653 THE GNAWING ANIMALS A Vast Order of Prolific Mammals with which Man is Compelled to be Constantly at War 1775 ANIMALS IN ARMOUR CLAD Defensive Survivals from the Ages When Jaw and Claw Ruled the Earth 1887 THE POUCHED MAMMALS A Low Type of Small-Brained Animal Approaching the Reptile, and Developed Chiefly in Australia 2007 ANIMAL FRIENDS AND FOES An Imminent Danger from the Upsetting by Man of the Natural Balance of Wild Life 2135 GROUP 6-MAN INTERNAL LABORATORIES A System, Creative and Purifying, that Forms Scaveng ing Cells, Traps Microbes, Filters Poisons, and Makes Chemical Secretions 1543 MAN’S ESSENTIAL LIFE The Dependent Yet Dominant Nervous System, for the Sake of which the Other Systems Exist 1661 MAN'S COMPLEX NERVES The Nervous System in Man and Beast, and the Nature of the Difference Between the Two 1785 THE SUPREME ORGAN OF LIFE The Design and Structure of the Brain, and the Supposed Functions of Its Component Parts 1897 WHAT BRAIN-STUDY SHOWS The Astonishing Foldings of the Brain, and the Activities Traced to Each 2017 MIND THE ESSENCE OF MAN The Mind, Something Vastly More then Consciousness, to be Studied in Lowly Ways, but Linked with the Divine 2145