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 34_a_. Columnar hoar-frost crystals 45 34_b_. 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.