J. Theobald and Company's extra special illustrated catalogue of magic lanterns, slides and apparatus (circa 1900)

238 34 '82 Sledge ) Dogs fastened up for the Travelling ( night S3 ,, Camping out for the night 34 ,, A night in the tent 35 ,, A halt for lunch 36 ,, Hauling a sledge to Cape Rawson 37 The road to the North Pole—Palaeo- crystic ice 88 The Greenland sledge party—Lieut. Beaumont and Dr. Coppinger 89 The grave of Capt. Hall of the Polaris 40 The Western party ready to start 41 Making a push for the Pole 42 The highway to the North 43 Lieut. Parr’s hei-oic exploit 44 Floe ti’avelling—an invalid in the sledge 45 Sledge travelling—going back for as- sistance 46 Funeral of Hans Christian 47 Funeral of a seaman on the ice 48 Cutting a wa}' through the ice 49 H.M.S. liomewai'd bound 60 The return of the ships to Portsmouth Descriptive Lecture in Lantern Readings, Vol. 3 , 2nd edition. SERIES OF NEW ASTEONOMIOAL SLIDES. From careJxiVy prepared Drawings. For descriptive matter, see Vol. 11. “Lantern Readings," 1 Solar System, with planets revolving round the sun. Compound rackwork 2 Comet revolving round the sun in an ellij)se. Rackwork 3 Diagram of the .solar system, drawn to scale, shewing the actual relative distance of the planets 4 Sectional diagram of the solar system ; also No. 5, relative distance of the planets arranged in a line. No. 7, showing the movement of the sun spots at dilferent times of the year. No. 13, sectional diagram of the seasons, shewing the altitude of the sun. Four diagrams on one slide. 5 Telescopic view of the sun 6 See slide 4 7 Illustration of the apparent change of form of the sun sjiots 8 Comiiarative sizi^ of the sun and planets 9 Illustration of the rotundity of the *^^''th. Rackwork 10 Revolution of the earth upon its axis. Rackwork 11 Diagram shewing the cause of the seasons 12 Do. do. do. in section. See slide No. 4. 13 Four views of the earth, as seen from the sun at the four seasons of the year 14 Diagram showing how an ellipse is drawn, and the dilierenoe between it and a circle 15 Diagram illustrating atmospheric re- fraction 16 Full moon—a photograph 17 Half moon—a photograph 18 Drawing of one of thecratersof themoon 19 Diagram showing the phases of the moon 20 Lunar landscape, with a view of the earth full 21 Lunar landscape, with a view of the new earth and the sun, after designs by Proctor, by permission of Messrs, Longtnan d- Go. 22 Diagram illustrating the theory of eclipses, sun and moon 23 Eclipse of the moon. Rackwork. 24 Eclipse of the sun : total, annular and partial. Rackwork 25 Theory of eclipses of the sun : diagram 26 Phenomena of eclipses of the sun 27 The tides. Rackwork 28 Mercury : showing its phases 29 Venus : drawing showdng the planet as crescent and half illuminated 30 Mars : general apjieorance and compara- tive size with the earth 31 Map of one of the hemispheres of Mars, after a drawing by Proctor, by per- mission of Longman tfc Go. 32 The asteroids, comparative size of the earth and four largest stars : map, &c. 33 Jupiter and his moons, and compara- tive size with the earth 34 Saturn 35 Uranus : the size of the sun seen from this and other planets 36 Neptune ; comparative size with the other planets 37 Meteors, shower of 38 Comets, Douati’s, ditto, with two tails; six-tail comet of 1744, a telescopic appearance of 39 Stars of the northern hemisphere by Proctor, by permission of Longman and Go. 40 Stars seen in the same space with the naked eye and by the telescope 41 Double stars and revolving stars 42 Stars of the southern hemisphere, by Proctor, by permission of Longman and Co. 43 Star clusters and nebulre 44 Diagram of iiaiallelogram of forces ; action of gravity illustrated by the moon’s orbit ; diagram illustrating the 2nd of Kepler’s Laws 45 Spectra of the light of the sun, stars, &c., kc. : nebulae, sodum lines, ko. Price for Complete Set of Astronomical .. A? o o Separate Slides as under :— No. I, ComiK)und Rackwork 20/- each. No. 2, IClIiptical Rack .. Nos. 9, 10, 23, 24, and 27, Hackwork, lo/* ,, No. 45, Coloured Spectra. Nos, 5, 7, 8, II, ip 15, 19, CO, 21, 22 25 , ttS, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 , I ,0/ per dor. 3C, 37, 40, and 41, Coloured and 1 ouched-up hy nan J .. .. ) Nos. 3, 4, 14, 16, 17, 18, 35, 38, 39, 42, 43, and 44 plain .. 1/ each. 2o/- each, 5/6 ,,