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From an Easy Chair

From an Easy Chair

by Sir E. Ray Lankester

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Author
Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929
Credits
Produced by Susan Skinner, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
Q: Science
Subject
Natural history
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 61795
Release Date
April 10, 2020
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.Untitled
  3. 3.FROM AN EASY CHAIR
  4. 4.Untitled
  5. 5.PREFACE
  6. 6.CONTENTS
  7. 7.1. Science and the Study of Nature
  8. 8.2. The Desire to Know the World of Nature
  9. 9.3. Scares and Wonders
  10. 10.4. Work at the Pasteur Institute
  11. 11.5. The Sea Serpent
  12. 12.6. Giraffes and the Okapi
  13. 13.7. The Great Geologists of Last Century
  14. 14.8. Experiments with Precious Stones
  15. 15.9. Diamonds
  16. 16.10. Science and Fisheries
  17. 17.11. Discoveries as to Malaria
  18. 18.12. Malta Fever
  19. 19.13. A Cure for Sleeping Sickness
  20. 20.14. Tsetse-Flies and Disease
  21. 21.15. Monkeys and Fleas
  22. 22.16. The Jigger Flea
  23. 23.17. Public Estimate of the Value of Science
  24. 24.18. The Common House-fly and Others
  25. 25.19. Cerebral Inhibition
  26. 26.20. Colour-photography and Photographs of Mars
  27. 27.21. Origin of Names by Errors in Copying
  28. 28.22. False News as to Extinct Monsters
  29. 29.23. Mistletoe and Holly
  30. 30.24. The Cattle Show
  31. 31.25. The Experimental Method
  32. 32.26. Hypnotism and an Experiment on the Influence of the Magnet
  33. 33.27. Luminous Owls and Other Luminous Animals and Plants
  34. 34.28. Reminiscences of Lord Kelvin
  35. 35.29. The So-called Jargon of Science
  36. 36.30. Rats and the Plague
  37. 37.31. Ancient Temples and Astronomy
  38. 38.32. Alchemists of To-day and Yesterday
  39. 39.33. A Story of Sham Diamonds and Pearls
  40. 40.34. The Nature of Pearls
  41. 41.35. A King Who was a Zoologist
  42. 42.36. The Transmission to Offspring of Acquired Qualities
  43. 43.37. Variation and Selection Among Living Things
  44. 44.38. The Movement, Growth, and Dwindling of Glaciers
  45. 45.39. Votes for Women
  46. 46.40. Tobacco and the History of Smoking
  47. 47.41. Cruelty, Pain and Knowledge
  48. 48.Transcriber’s Notes:

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