CHRISTMAS AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION<br> An Anthology of Lectures by M Faraday, J Tyndall, R S Ball, S P Thompson, E R Lankester, W H Bragg, W L Bragg, R L Gregory, and I Stewart

CHRISTMAS AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION
An Anthology of Lectures by M Faraday, J Tyndall, R S Ball, S P Thompson, E R Lankester, W H Bragg, W L Bragg, R L Gregory, and I Stewart

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
The Correlation of the Physical Forces Michael Faraday	1
Carbon or Charcoal—Coal Gas—Respiration and Its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle—Conclusion Michael Faraday	17
The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers John Tyndall	35
Lessons in Electricity John Tyndall	61
Stars Robert Stawell Ball	75
Röntgen Light Silvanus Phillips Thompson	125
The Great Extinct Reptiles—Dinosaurs from the Oolites—The Pariasaurus and Inostransevia from the Trias of North Russia and South Africa—Marine Reptiles Edwin Ray Lankester	163
The Atoms of Which Things Are Made William Henry Bragg	199
Our Electrical Supply William Lawrence Bragg	231
Objects and Pictures Richard Langton Gregory	287
Gallery of Monsters Ian Stewart	319
BACK MATTER	359
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