| Fig. | | Page |
| An English Sunset tinged by Krakatoa (colour) | Frontispiece |
| 1. | Immanuel Kant (from an old print) | 7 |
| 2. | A Faint Diffused Nebulosity | 17 |
| 3. | The Crab Nebula | 19 |
| 4. | Jupiter | 25 |
| 5. | Nebulous Region and Star-cluster | 33 |
| 6. | The Great Nebula in Orion | 41 |
| 7. | The Dumb-bell Nebula | 45 |
| 8. | The Crossley Reflector | 49 |
| 9. | The Cluster in Hercules | 53 |
| 10. | Spectra of the Sun and Capella | 62 |
| 11. | Spectrum of Nebula in Orion and Spectrum of White Star | 64 |
| 12. | Solar Spectra with Bright Lines and Dark Lines during Eclipse | 69 |
| 13. | The NebulÆ in the Pleiades | 71 |
| 14. | The Sun | 81 |
| 15. | I. Spectrum of the Sun. II. Spectrum of Arcturus | 85 |
| 16. | Brooks’ Comet and Meteor Trail | 89 |
| 17. | Argus and the surrounding Stars and Nebulosity | 103 |
| 18. | Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius | 105 |
| 19. | To illustrate the History of the Sun | 113 |
| 20. | Solar Corona | 117 |
| 21. | The Great Comet of 1882 | 119 |
| 22. | Special Thermometer for use in Deep Borings | 129 |
| 23. | At the Bottom of the Great Bore | 140 |
| 24. | Three consecutive Shells of the Earth’s Crust | 145 |
| 25. | Earthquake Routes from Japan to the Isle of Wight | 171 |
| Showing Localities of Earthquakes (colour) | 175 |
| 26. | Showing Coasts invaded by the Great Sea-waves from Krakatoa | 179 |
| The Early Stage of the Eruption of Krakatoa (colour) | 180 |
| 27. | Spread of the Air-wave from Krakatoa to the Antipodes | 183 |
| 28. | The great Spiral Nebula | 193 |
| 29. | How to find the great Spiral Nebula | 196 |
| 30. | A group of NebulÆ | 199 |
| 31. | A Ray Nebula | 201 |
| 32. | Portion of the Milky Way | 205 |
| 33. | A Spiral Nebula seen Edgewise | 211 |
| 34. | A foreshortened Spiral | 212 |
| 35. | Edge-view of a Spiral boldly shown | 213 |
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