Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20)

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Editor

Holden, Edward S. (Edward Singleton), 1846-1914

Title

Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky

Credits

Juliet Sutherland, Sandra Brown, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

Q: Science

Subject

Science -- Juvenile literature

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Text

eBook-No.

15884

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15884

Release Date

May 23, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.YOUNG FOLKS' LIBRARY — SELECTIONS FROM THE CHOICEST LITERATURE OF ALL LANDS; FOLK-LORE, FAIRY TALES, FABLES, LEGENDS, NATURAL HISTORY, WONDERS OF EARTH, SEA AND SKY, ANIMAL STORIES, SEA TALES, BRAVE DEEDS, EXPLORATIONS, STORIES OF SCHOOL AND COLLEGE LIFE, BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY, PATRIOTIC ELOQUENCE, POETRY — THIRD EDITION — THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, — PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEWETT TUCKER, HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, HENRY VAN DYKE, NATHAN HASKELL DOLE — 1902 — EDITORIAL BOARD — LIST OF VOLUMES — Young Folks' Library in Twenty Volumes Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Editor-in-Chief — of — EDITED BY — EDWARD SINGLETON HOLDEN — VOLUME XI — 1902
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.LIST OF COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.THE MARVELS OF NATURE — By — EDWARD S. HOLDEN, M.A., Sc.D. LL.D.
5. 5.WHAT THE EARTH'S CRUST IS MADE OF — (From The World's Foundations.) — By AGNES GIBERNE.
6. 6.AMERICA THE OLD WORLD — (From Geological Sketches.) — By L. AGASSIZ.
7. 7.SOME RECORDS OF THE ROCKS — (From A First Book in Geology.) — By N.S. SHALER, S.D. 1
8. 8.THE PITCH LAKE IN THE WEST INDIES — (From At Last.) — By C. KINGSLEY.
9. 9.A STALAGMITE CAVE — (From the Voyage of the Challenger.) — By SIR C. WYVILLE THOMSON, KT., LL.D., ETC.
10. 10.THE BIG TREES OF CALIFORNIA — (From Studies Scientific and Social.) — By ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE.
11. 11.WHAT IS EVOLUTION? — ( From The Atlantic Monthly, March, '93. ) — By PROFESSOR E.S. HOLDEN.
12. 12.HOW THE SOIL IS MADE — ( From the Formation of Vegetable Mould. ) — By CHARLES DARWIN.
13. 13.ZOÖLOGICAL MYTHS — ( From Facts and Fictions of Zoölogy. ) — By ANDREW WILSON.
14. 14.ON A PIECE OF CHALK — A LECTURE TO WORKING MEN . — (Delivered in England.) — By T.H. HUXLEY.
15. 15.A BIT OF SPONGE — (Written on Scotland.) — ( From Glimpses of Nature. ) — By A. WILSON.
16. 16.THE GREATEST SEA-WAVE EVER KNOWN — ( From Light Science in Leisure Hours. ) — By R.A. PROCTOR.
17. 17.THE PHOSPHORESCENT SEA — ( From Studies of Animated Nature. ) — By W.S. DALLAS.
18. 18.COMETS — ( From Marvels of the Heavens .) — By CAMILLE FLAMMARION.
19. 19.THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 1883 — AN ASTRONOMERS VOYAGE TO FAIRY-LAND. — ( From The Atlantic Monthly, May, 1890. ) — By PROF. E.S. HOLDEN.
20. 20.HALOS—PARHELIA—THE SPECTRE OF THE BROCKEN, ETC — ( From The Atmosphere. ) — By CAMILLE FLAMMARION.
21. 21.THE PLANET VENUS — By AGNES M. CLERKE.
22. 22.I. — HESPERUS AND PHOSPHOR.
23. 23.II. — THE PHASES OF VENUS.
24. 24.III. — THE SILVER CROWN.
25. 25.THE STARS — ( From Starland. ) — BY SIR ROBERT S. BALL.
26. 26.RAIN AND SNOW — ( From The Forms of Water. ) — By JOHN TYNDALL.
27. 27.THE ORGANIC WORLD — ( From The Elements of Science. ) — By ST. GEORGE MIVART F.R.S.
28. 28.INHABITANTS OF MY POOL — ( From Magic Glasses. ) — By ARABELLA B. BUCKLEY.
29. 29.NOTES
30. 30.WONDERS OF EARTH, SEA, AND SKY — SUGGESTIONS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY READING

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