PREFACE.
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE FIRST VOLUME.
Errata.
PART I. ATOMS AND MOLECULES OF MATTER.
SECTION I. ELEMENTARY CONSTITUTION OF MATTER.
SECTION II. ON FORCE, AND THE RELATIONS BETWEEN FORCE AND MATTER.
SECTION III. ATOMIC THEORY, ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS OF MATTER,
SECTION IV. THE SOLAR SPECTRUM, SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, SPECTRA OF
PART II. VEGETABLE ORGANISMS.
SECTION I. MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURE OF THE VEGETABLE WORLD.
SECTION II. ALGAE.
SECTION III. FUNGI.
SECTION IV. LICHENS.
SECTION V. CHARACEAE.
SECTION VI. HEPATICAE, OR LIVERWORTS.
SECTION VII. MUSCI, OR MOSSES.
SECTION VIII. FILICES, OR FERNS.
SECTION IX. EQUISETACEAE, OR HORSETAILS.
SECTION X. MARSILEACEAE, OR RHIZOSPERMAE.
SECTION XI. LYCOPODIACEAE, OR CLUB MOSSES.
SECTION XII. GENERAL STRUCTURE OF FLOWERING PLANTS.
SECTION XIII. MONOCOTYLEDONOUS, OR ENDOGENOUS PLANTS.
SECTION XIV. DICOTYLEDONOUS, OR EXOGENOUS PLANTS.
ON the CONNECTION of the PHYSICAL SCIENCES. 9th Edition. Portrait. Post 8vo. 9s.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. New Edition, thoroughly revised. Portrait. Post 8vo. [In the press.
Fig. 89, p. 20.
EUCYRTIDIUM CRANOIDES.
[Frontispiece to Vol. I.
ON
MOLECULAR
AND
MICROSCOPIC SCIENCE
BY MARY SOMERVILLE
AUTHOR OF ‘THE MECHANISM OF THE HEAVENS’ ‘PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY’
‘CONNECTION OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES’ ETC.
Deus magnus in magnis, maximus in minimis—St. Augustine
In Two Volumes—Vol. I.
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1869
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