Moon, 43-56 ----, "terminator" of, 51 Mont Blanc, 25, 74, 80 Mount Everest, 75, 80 Nature of Vision, 99 Nebulae, spectrum of, 38, 40 Nebulium, 40 Negative elements, 36 Neison, E., 48, 53 Neptune, 132, 141 Newcomb, S., 93, 109 Nicholson, J. W., 40 Nickel, 33 Nilosyrtis, "canal" on Mars, 89 Nitrogen, 11, 37, 38, 39 Observatory, Chicago, 44 ----, Harvard College, 127 ----, Lick, 122 ----, Paris, 44 Occultation, 52, 53 Organic Life, definition of, 15 Organism, living, 6-19 Organo-genetic elements, 12, 38, 39 Osmosis, 15 Oxygen, 11, 36, 37, 38, 41 Periodic Law, Mendeléeff's, 39 Phillips, T. E. R., 104 Phosphorus, 12 Photosphere, 28, 33, 36 Pickering, W. H., 47, 48, 53, 109 Pithecanthropus, 155 Planetary statistics, table of, 72, 73, 135 Platinum, 36 "Plurality of Worlds," 2 Pollock, Master, 109 Potassium, 12 Poynting, J. H., 86, 87, 89, 115 Proctor, R. A., 34, 77 Prominences, 29, 30, 37 Protofluorine, 40 Protonilus, "canal" on Mars, 89 Protoplasm, 11, 12, 13, 15, 38, 40, 154 Pyramid, Great, 45 Refraction, anomalous, 28 Reversing layer, 36 "Rice-grains," of Sun's surface, 28, 29 Ring Nebula in Lyra, 40 Rosse, Lord, 55 Ruskin, J., 19 Saturn, 132 ----, Rings of, 138 Schiaparelli, G. V., 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 97, 99, 107, 108, 116, 117 Schooling, T. Holt, 83 "Scientia," 66 "Semi-suns," 131, 132 Serviss, Garrett P., 17 Singapore, climate of, 87, 88 Sinus Sabaeus, marking on Mars, 97, 99 Sirius, 37 Sodium, 33, 36 "Solar Constant," 26 Spectroscopic binaries, 144, 145 Spectrum, 53 ----, heat, 55 "Spurious" disc, 103 Stars, double, 35 ----, multiple, 35 ----, red, 38 ----, spectra of, 34, 38, 39 Stefan's Law, 85 Stoney, G. Johnstone, 34 "Streaming," 15 Sulphur, 11, 38 Sun, 20-32 Sunspots, 29, 30, 31, 38 ----, spectra of, 37 Swift, Dean, 82, 156 Table Mountain, 54 Thermograph of Mars, 91, 92 Titanium, 36, 37, 38 Tornadoes, 31, 137 "Twinkler," 114 Tycho, lunar crater, 46 Uranus, 132, 140 Venus, 57, 111-18 Verworn, Max, 7 Very, F. W., 55 Vesper, 111 "Victoria," hypothetical planet, 83 Wallace, A. R., 4 "War of the Worlds," 104, 156 Waste, 151, 152 Water, indispensable factor, 15, 41 Wells, H. G., 104, 156 Whewell, 4 Williams, A. Stanley, 104 Wolf, Max, 40 Young, C. A., 26, 33 WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD. PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH Footnotes: [1] _Chemical Phenomena in Life_, pp. 62-3, by Dr. Frederick Czapek (Harper's Library of Living Thought). The reader is strongly recommended to study this work in the present connection. [2] _Wonders of Life_, by Ernst Haeckel, Professor at Jena University, p. 130. [3] _Wonders of Life_, pp. 127-8. [4] _Chemical Phenomena in Life_, p. 58. [5] _Ibid._, p. 22. [6] _Other Worlds_, by Garrett P. Serviss, pp. 63-4.