REFERENCE-LIST

CHAPTER I

THE SUCCESSORS OF NEWTON IN ASTRONOMY (1) (p. 10). An Account of Several
Extraordinary Meteors or Lights in the Sky, by Dr. Edmund Halley. Phil.
Trans. of Royal Society of London, vol. XXIX, pp. 159-162. Read before
the Royal Society in the autumn of 1714. (2) (p. 13). Phil. Trans. of
Royal Society of London for 1748, vol. XLV., pp. 8, 9. From A Letter to
the Right Honorable George, Earl of Macclesfield, concerning an Apparent
Motion observed in some of the Fixed Stars, by James Bradley, D.D.,
Astronomer Royal and F.R.S.

CHAPTER II

THE PROGRESS OF MODERN ASTRONOMY

(1) (p. 25). William Herschel, Phil. Trans. for 1783, vol. LXXIII. (2)
(p. 30). Kant's Cosmogony, ed. and trans. by W. Hartie, D.D., Glasgow,
900, pp. 74-81. (3) (p. 39). Exposition du systeme du monde (included in
oeuvres Completes), by M. le Marquis de Laplace, vol. VI., p. 498. (4)
(p. 48). From The Scientific Papers of J. Clerk-Maxwell, edited by W.
D. Nevin, M.A. (2 vols.), vol. I., pp. 372-374. This is a reprint of
Clerk-Maxwell's prize paper of 1859.

CHAPTER III

THE NEW SCIENCE OF PALEONTOLOGY

(1) (p. 81). Baron de Cuvier, Theory of the Earth, New York, 1818, p.
98. (2) (p. 88). Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology (4 vols.),
London, 1834. (p. 92). Ibid., vol. III., pp. 596-598. (4) (p. 100). Hugh
Falconer, in Paleontological Memoirs, vol. II., p. 596. (5) (p. 101).
Ibid., p. 598. (6) (p. 102). Ibid., p. 599. (7) (p. 111). Fossil Horses
in America (reprinted from American Naturalist, vol. VIII., May, 1874),
by O. C. Marsh, pp. 288, 289.

CHAPTER IV

THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN GEOLOGY

(1) (p. 123). James Hutton, from Transactions of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh, 1788, vol. I., p. 214. A paper on the "Theory of the Earth,"
read before the Society in 1781. (2) (p. 128). Ibid., p. 216. (3)
(p. 139). Consideration on Volcanoes, by G. Poulett Scrope, Esq., pp.
228-234. (4) (p. 153). L. Agassiz, Etudes sur les glaciers, Neufchatel,
1840, p. 240.

CHAPTER V

THE NEW SCIENCE OF METEOROLOGY

(1) (p. 182). Theory of Rain, by James Hutton, in Transactions of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1788, vol. 1, pp. 53-56. (2) (p. 191). Essay
on Dew, by W. C. Wells, M.D., F.R.S., London, 1818, pp. 124 f.

CHAPTER VI

MODERN THEORIES OF HEAT AND LIGHT

(1) (p. 215). Essays Political, Economical, and Philosophical, by
Benjamin Thompson, Count of Rumford (2 vols.), Vol. II., pp. 470-493,
London; T. Cadell, Jr., and W. Davies, 1797. (2) (p. 220). Thomas Young,
Phil. Trans., 1802, p. 35. (3) (p. 223). Ibid., p. 36.

CHAPTER VII

THE MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

(1) (p. 235). Davy's paper before Royal Institution, 1810. (2) (p. 238).
Hans Christian Oersted, Experiments with the Effects of the Electric
Current on the Magnetic Needle, 1815. (3) (p. 243). On the Induction
of Electric Currents, by Michael Faraday, F.R.S., Phil. Trans. of Royal
Society of London for 1832, pp. 126-128. (4) (p. 245). Explication of
Arago's Magnetic Phenomena, by Michael Faraday, F.R.S., Phil. Trans.
Royal Society of London for 1832, pp. 146-149.

CHAPTER VIII

THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY

(1) (p. 267). The Forces of Inorganic Nature, a paper by Dr. Julius
Robert Mayer, Liebig's Annalen, 1842. (2) (p. 272). On the Calorific
Effects of Magneto-Electricity and the Mechanical Value of Heat, by J.
P. Joule, in Report of the British Association for the Advancement of
Science, vol. XII., p. 33.

CHAPTER IX

THE ETHER AND PONDERABLE MATTER

(1) (p. 297). James Clerk-Maxwell, Philosophical Magazine for January
and July, 1860.