Pleasant Ways in Science
Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
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1. WORKS BY RICHARD A. PROCTOR.2. PREFACE.3. OXYGEN IN THE SUN.4. SUN-SPOT, STORM, AND FAMINE.5. NEW WAYS OF MEASURING THE SUN’S DISTANCE.6. DRIFTING LIGHT-WAVES.7. THE NEW STAR WHICH FADED INTO STAR-MIST.8. STAR-GROUPING, STAR-DRIFT, AND STAR-MIST. A Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution on May 6, 1870.9. MALLET’S THEORY OF VOLCANOES.10. TOWARDS THE NORTH POLE.11. A MIGHTY SEA-WAVE.12. STRANGE SEA CREATURES.13. ON SOME MARVELS IN TELEGRAPHY.14. THE PHONOGRAPH, OR VOICE-RECORDER.15. THE GORILLA AND OTHER APES.16. THE USE AND ABUSE OF FOOD.17. OZONE.18. DEW.19. THE LEVELLING POWER OF RAIN.20. ANCIENT BABYLONIAN ASTROGONY.