Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers (1872)
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909, Glaisher, James, 1809-1903, Mackie, Samuel Joseph, Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887 · London, Virtue & co. · leaf 166
wards towards the centre. Thisform has been observed only during very severe cold. Fig. 38 is somewhat analogous to the crystals of water; its CRVSTALS OF SNOW. 151 centre is hexagonal, but the prisms are irregular crystallineincrustations of the utmost delicacy and transparency; it was oflarge… … Fig. 35-two similar crystals united by an axis at right angles to the planeof each. It is highly complex, and the effect of each is more thandoubled by the arrangement. Crystals so united are not unfre-quent in severe weather. During one winter our observations numbered nearly twohundred varieties.…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Aesthetics)
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