ILLUSTRATIONS

A Winter Scene Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

3. Grass blade with dew deposit 5

4. Showing how sharp-pointed grasses collect and retain the dewdrops 5

5. Grass blade holding two drops 5

6. Dewdrop on grass blade 5

7. Spider’s web entire 9

8. Detail section of spider’s web dew-laden 9

9. A dew-laden strawberry leaf 13

10. Dewdrop caught on vegetable hairs 13

11. The sleeping caterpillar was a good subject 13

12. The surface of a leaf dew-covered 13

13. Dew caught and held upon the down of plant stem 14

14. Dew upon the down of a leaf 14

17. Hoar-frost deposit upon a stick 18

18. Dainty lace-like formation of hoar frost 18

19. Winter tabular hoar frost resembling a group of butterflies 18

20. Like a piece of bleached coral 22

21. Tabular hoar frost 22

22. Tree form tabular hoar frost which grew in zero weather 22

23. A winter type of hoar frost 26

24. Columnar hoar frost upon a decaying log 26

25. Striking arrangement of hoar-frost crystals 26

26. Showing hoar-frost elaboration 33

27. Hoar-frost deposit upon grass blades 33

28. Moss-like hoar frost deposited upon surface of pond 37

29. Columnar hoar frost scattered over brook ice 37

30. An odd hoar-frost formation 41

31. Detail tabular hoar frost 41

32. Detail tabular hoar-frost crystals 41

33. Cup-form hoar frost 41

34a. Columnar hoar-frost crystals 45

34b. Columnar hoar frost 45

35. Linear-type window-pane frost 46

36. Showing initials crudely scratched upon glass 46

37. An exquisite lace pattern in frost 50

38. A beautiful example of two distinct types 54

39. Fern-like scrolls, delicate background 54

40. A perfect fern leaf 58

41. Raised fern-like arrangement 58

42. Showing in detail granular frost 58

43. Graceful feathers with curling ends 62

44. Strikingly beautiful example 62

45. One of Jack Frost’s masterpieces 69

46. A mass of feathers scattered upon glass 69

47. Sometimes Jack Frost sketches oak leaves 73

48. Detail of frost crystals largely magnified 73

49. Twigs and leaves 77

50. Branch-like arrangement of twigs 77

51. Moss-like arrangement of frost 78

52. Twin freaks 78

53. An unusual design 82

54. A powdering of small flowers 82

55. A maple-leaf etching 86

56. Find the frost spider 86

57. Two distinct types of window-pane frost 90

58. Curious design suggesting a spider web 90

59. One of the choicest designs of window frost 97

60. A design of frost work from “the land of the pointed firs” 97

61. Blizzard type 101

62. Exquisite jewelled type 101

63. Solid, big-storm type 105

64. A very symmetrical crystal 105

65. High-altitude crystal 105

66. Freak crystal formed by broken sections uniting 105

68. Air inclusions unusually clear 109

69. Low-altitude type 109

70. Local-storm crystal 110

71. Freak trigonal crystal 110

72. Elaborately etched 110

73. The cuff-button crystals 114

74. Low-cloud crystal 114

75. A beautifully marked high-altitude crystal 114

76. Crystal coated with granular snow 118

77. Having flower-like petals 118

78. Very intricate design 122

79. Showing a perfect star 122

80. Frigid-altitude crystal 126

81. High- and low-altitude type combined 126

82. Having beautifully etched center 126

83. A diamond pendant 126

84. Clean-cut prism-like crystal from high altitude 133

85. Suggesting a Masonic emblem 133

86. The Egyptian crystal 133

87. Unusually symmetrical and clearly defined 137

88. Singular detail 137

89. Trigonal crystal 137

90. Young germ crystals 141

91. Granular pellet crystals 141

92. Columnar six-sided type 141

93. Sleet, sharp and stinging 142

94. Old snow, re-crystallised 146

95. Freak crystal 146

96. Snow rollers 150

97. Scattered like huge muffs over large tracts of land 150

98. A freak crystal 154

99. Two broken crystals united 154

100. A society emblem 154

101. A twin crystal 154

102. A feathery type 161

103. Leaf-like terminations 161

104. Delicately etched centre 165

105. High-altitude crystal 165

106. Solid type 169

107. Star type 169

108. Very unusual centre formation 169

109. Mosaic like 169

110. Feathery type 173

111. Clear prism-like branches 173

112. Solid type 173

113. Low-altitude crystal 173

114. Having notably elaborate centre 174

115. Very elaborate design 174

116. The arrow crystal 174

117. Low-altitude type 174

118. High-altitude crystal 178

119. A daintily etched centre design 178

120. Branchy trigonal crystal 182

121. An uncommon type 182

122. One of the most elaborate crystals shown 186

123. A rare design because of its open petal-like formation 186

124. Very frigid altitude crystal having remarkably etched centre 186

125. A snow crystal covered with granular deposit of frost 186

126. Local-storm type 190

127. Cold high altitude 190

128. Germ or birth of ice crystal 197

129. Second stage in which crimps begin to appear 197

130. Third stage of development 197

131. Fourth stage flower-like shape beginning to show 201

132. Ice flower completed 201

133. Flower-like shape fully formed 201

134. Ice flower beginning to show shadings 201

135. Ice crystals growing downward into the brook 205

136. Group of ice crystals 205

137. Lance-like form seen pushing out from banks of brooks 205

138. Second stage of lance-like ice crystals 206

139. Lance-like form completed 206

140a. Freak ice crystals 206

140b. Group of ice crystals containing germs 206

141a. Coral-like branch showing the “feather type” in detail 210

141b. Window-pane ice 210

142. Beautiful type of window-ice growing like delicate seaweed 214

143. Window-pane ice 214

144. Another type of window-pane ice 214

145. An example of columnar ice 218

146. Columnar ice 218

147. Columnar ice, section shown in detail 218

148. Very great thunder-storm drops 222

149. Rain from cirro-stratus high clouds 222

150. Rain from low nimbus clouds 222

151. Thunder- and hail-storm type 226

152. From a great rain storm which lasted 15 hours 226

153. Thunder cloud 230

154. Nimbus or low stratus clouds 230

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