Volume 5

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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    CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIVE PAGE GROUP 1—THE UNIVERSE A SUB-LORD OF THE HEAVEN’S The Size, Density, Travels, Velocities, Satellites, and Spots of the Great Planet Jupiter 2937 SATURN THE MAGNIFICENT The Story of the Gradual Discovery of Saturn’s Retinue —Three Rings, and Ten Satellites .. 3057 THE OUTERMOST PLANETS The Plumbing of the Depths of Space to Find Slow- Moving Uranus and Neptune the Invisible 3177 A COSMIC BOMBARDMENT How Twenty Million Meteors Rush Every Day into the Earth’s Atmosphere, and are Burned Up by Friction .. 3297 WANDERING FIRE-MISTS The Vast Journeyings of the Comets Through Outermost Emptiness, and Their Recall by Sun and Planet 3417 STARS IN THEIR COURSES The Naming of the Constellations and Making of the Map of the Sky 3537 GROUP 2—THE EARTH THE SOLID WATERS The Crystallisation of Snow and Ice ; the Flow of Glaciers and the Formation of Icebergs 2945 JOURNEYINGS OF THE ICE How the Glaciers, as Travellers, Burden-Bearers, Engineers, and Engravers, Tell the Story of the Past .. 3065 THE WEATHER MYSTERY The Dependence of Climate on the Balance Between the Power of the Sun and the Shelter of the Atmosphere ... 3183 MOUNTAIN STOREHOUSES The Great Ranges of All the Continents and the Solitary Peaks 3305 THE MAKING OF MOUNTAINS Some of Their Features—Their Age, Their Steepness, and How Fast They Are Made and Unmade 3429 EARTH’S FLATTENED AREAS The Great Rain-Deserted Plateaus, Inhospitable Deserts, and Enormous Forests of the World 3545 GROUP 3—LIFE THE UNIVERSAL PARASITE The New World of Internal Life, Hitherto Invisible, Revealed by the Microscope 2957 ON THE MICROBE’S TRACK The Fascinating Life and Work of the World’s Greatest Chemist—Louis Pasteur 3075 MAN’S MOST DEADLY ENEMY The War that is Being Waged Between Mankind and the Tubercle Bacillus 3195 THE CHILD’S LURKING FOE The New Knowledge about the Beginnings of Con sumption, Its Detection and Cure 3317 MAN AND THE MOSQUITO The Story of the War Waged by Men of Science of All Nations Against Malaria 3439 THE CONQUEST OF DISEASE The Discovery and Arrest of the Spread, by Mosquitoes, Flies, Fleas, and Ticks, of Dreadful Epidemics 3557 PAGE GROUP 4—PLANT LIFE FRUIT AND SEED DISPERSAL The Scattering of Plants by Varied Devices—the Slinging, Catapulting, Creeping, and Hopping of Fruits 296 j FRIENDS OF PLANT LIFE Attractions Offered by Flowers to Birds and Insects, and the Value of Their Visits 3085 BIDDEN AND UNBIDDEN GUESTS How the Friends of Plant Life are Attracted, and Its Enemies Repelled 3205 ENEMIES OF PLANT LIFE Moulds that Form on Fruits and Bread ; and Fungi, Smuts, Rusts, and Mildew that Attack Potatoes and Cereals 3325 DISEASE IN GARDEN PLANTS The Insidious Foes of the Potato, Tomato, Celery, Gooseberry, Strawberry, and Currant, and How to Defeat Them 3449 ENEMIES OF FRUIT CROPS Attacks Upon the Apple, Pear, Plum, Cherry, Damson, Peach, Hop, Strawberry, and Raspberry 3567 GROUP 5—ANIMAL LIFE A FINAL REVIEW OF BIRDS To What Extent Have Birds a Colour Sense, and How Does It Operate in Sexual Selection ? 2973 THE REVILED SNAKE TRIBE Uncanny Survivals from the Earliest Ages of the World, and Inspirers of Terror in Man and Beast 3093 THE COMPANY OF LIZARDS Small-Brained Survivals from Very Early Ages that are Now Again Multiplying on the Earth 3213 WATER-BORN LAND ANIMALS The Place of the Frog, the Toad, the Salamander, and the Newt in the Scale of Life 3333 WARRIORS OF THE OCEAN Sharks and Dog-Fish, Rays, Sword-Fish, Squids, Octo puses, and Cuttle-fish 3457 OUR BREAD ON THE WATERS Strange Life-Stories of Sea-Fish Which Come to Our Table 3575 GROUP 6—MAN THE BEGINNING OF THOUGHT Man’s Growth as a Thinker Through His Superior Brain-Facility for the Association of Ideas 2985 MEMORY AND ATTENTION How We Retain Interesting Experiences, Recollect Them, and Recognise Them When They are Recalled.. 3107 INTELLIGENCE AND SPEECH How Intelligence has Grown with the Growth of Speech, and Thought Forms Itself in Speech 3223 INSTINCT AND EMOTION The Deep-Seated and Universal Influence of Instinct, and Its Inseparability from Emotion 3343 THE ELEMENTS OF EMOTION An Analysis of Man’s Principal Primary Instincts, and Their Expression as Emotions 3407 PROCESSES OF THE MIND An Examination of the Operations of Suggestion, Imitation, Habit, and Temperament 3583