N.S.S.
_March, 1898._




CONTENTS.


CHAPTER PAGE

I.--INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF NATURE 1
II.--WAYS AND MEANS OF STUDYING NATURE 9
III.--THE STELLAR REALM 31
IV.--THE EARTH 81
V.--THE ATMOSPHERE 97
VI.--GLACIERS 207
VII.--THE WORK OF UNDERGROUND WATER 250
VIII.--THE SOIL 313
IX.--THE ROCKS AND THEIR ORDER 349




LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.

FACING PAGE

Dunes at Ipswich Light, Massachusetts _Frontispiece_
Seal Rocks near San Francisco, California 33