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

Jean May Thompson

Doubleday, Page, 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

• CHAPTER PAGB: 5
• 32: 10
• baru: 15
• Tree form tabular hoar frost which grew in zero weather: 23
• A winter type of hoar frost 24 Columnar hoar frost upon a decaying log: 27
• Showing hoarfrost elaboration 27 Hoarfrost deposit upon grass blades: 32
• Mosslike hoar frost deposited upon surface of pond 29 Columnar hoar frost scattered over brook: 36
• The Coming of the Hoar Frost: 37
• An odd hoarfrost formation 31 Detail tabular hoar frost 32 Detail tabular hoarfrost crystals 33 Cupform hoar frost: 40
• 34a Columnar hoarfrost crystals 346 Columnar hoar frost: 44
• Lineartype windowpane frost 36 Showing initials crudely scratched upon glass: 47
• An exquisite lace pattern in frost: 51
• A beautiful example of two distinct types 39 Fernlike scrolls delicate background: 55
• A perfect fern leaf 41 Raised fernlike arrangement 42 Showing in detail granular frost: 59
• Graceful feathers with curling ends: 63
• Etchings by Jack Frost: 65
• One of Jack Frosts masterpieces: 68
• Sometimes Jack Frost sketches oak leaves 48 Detail of frost crystals largely mag nified: 72
• Twigs and leaves 50 Branchlike arrangement of twigs: 76
• An unusual design 54 A powdering of small flowers: 83
• A mapleleaf etching 56 Find the frost spider: 87
• Two distinct types of windowpane frost: 91
• Curious design suggesting a spider web 59 One of the choicest designs of window frost 60 A design of frost work from the land: 96
• Mysteries and Beauties of the Snow: 97
• Blizzard type: 101
• Solid bigstorm type 105 64 A very symmetrical crystal: 104
• tions uniting: 105
• Air inclusions unusually clear: 108
• The cuffbutton crystals: 115
• Very intricate design: 123
• Cleancut prismlike crystal from high: 132
• Beautiful type of windowice growing: 142
• Old snow recrystallised: 154
• A freak crystal: 155
• Delicately etched centre: 164
• Ice and Its Formation: 169
• Having notably elaborate centre: 175
• Branchy trigonal crystal: 183
• 92: 189
• The Beneficent Rain: 205
• A like delicate seaweed: 214
• Windowpane ice: 215
• An example of colmnuar ice: 218
• Columnar ice: 219
• Very great thunderstorm drops: 223
• Thunder and hailstorm type 226 a 152 From a great rain storm which lasted 15 hours: 227
• Thunder cloud: 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, 1907
• Original from: Cornell University
• Digitized: Dec 9, 2008
• Length: 233 pages