Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain

Jean May Thompson

Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907 - Meteorology - 233 pages

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Great black and white photos of frost etchings on glass and snowflakes.

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Contents

• Tree form tabular hoar frost which grew in zero weather: 23
• 23 A winter type of hoar frost: 24
• log: 26
• Showing hoarfrost elaboration: 32
• The Coming of the Hoar Frost: 37
• An odd hoarfrost formation 4i 3i Detail tabular hoar frost 4i 32 Detail tabular hoarfrost crystals 4i 33 Cupform hoar frost: 40
• 34a Columnar hoarfrost crystals: 45
• Columnar hoar frost 4S 35 Lineartype windowpane frost: 46
• Showing initials crudely scratched upon glass: 47
• 37 An exquisite lace pattern in frost So 38 A beautiful example of two distinct types: 54
• 39 Fernlike scrolls delicate background: 55
• A perfect fern leaf: 58
• 43 Graceful feathers with curling ends: 63
• 45 One of Jack Frosts masterpieces: 68
• glass: 69
• 47 Sometimes Jack Frost sketches oak leaves: 73
• Detail of frost crystals largely mag nified: 77
• Si Mosslike arrangement of frost: 79
• 53 An unusual design: 82
• 55 A mapleleaf etching: 86
• 57 Two distinct types of windowpane frost: 90
• 95 Freak crystal: 95
• Snow rollers: 96
• Mysteries and Beauties of the Snow: 97
• A freak crystal: 98
• Two broken crystals united: 99
• 6i Blizzard type IOI 62 Exquisite jewelled type: 100
• 63 Solid bigstorm type i5: 104
• Air inclusions unusually clear: 108
• Localstorm crystal no 7i Freak trigonal crystal no 73 Elaborately etched: 111
• 73 The cuffbutton crystals: 114
• Crystal coated with granular snow: 119
• Very intricate design 12a 79 Showing a perfect star: 123
• Frigidaltitude crystal: 126
• 8a Having beautifully etched centre: 127
• Cleancut prismlike crystal from high altitude: 132
• Unusually symmetrical and clearly: 136
• defined: 137
• Young germ crystals: 141
• 93 Sleet sharp and stinging: 142
• Old snow recrystallised: 154
• A feathery type: 158
• Leaflike terminations: 160
• Delicately etched centre: 164
• Ice and Its Formation: 169
• Feathery type: 172
• in Clear prismlike branches: 173
• Having notably elaborate centre: 175
• Highaltitude crystal: 178
• A daintily etched centre design: 179
• Branchy trigonal crystal: 182
• An uncommon type: 183
• One of the most elaborate crystals shown: 187
• The Beneficent Rain: 205
• like delicate seaweed: 214
• 145 An example of colmnuar ice: 218
• Very great thunderstorm drops: 222
• Thunder and hailstorm type: 226
• 53 Thunder cloud: 230
• iS4 Nimbus or low stratus clouds: 231

Bibliographic information

• Title: Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain; Every child should know
• Author: Jean May Thompson
• Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907
• Original from: Cornell University
• Digitized: Dec 9, 2008
• Length: 233 pages