Table of Contents:
- The Sabbath; Goethe's 'Farbenlehre'; Atoms, molecules, and ether waves; Count Rumford; Louis Pasteur, his life and labours; The rainbow and its congeners; Address delivered at the Birkbeck institution on October 22, 1884; Thomas Young; Life in the Alps; About common water; Personal recollections of Thomas Carlyle; On unveiling the statue of Thomas Carlyle; On the origin, propagation, and prevention of phthisis; Old Alpine jottings; A morning on Alp Lusgen [poem]