Living Lights
by Charles Frederick Holder
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About this eBook
- Author
- Holder, Charles Frederick, 1851-1915
- Title
- Living lights : A popular account of phosphorescent animals and vegetables
- Original Publication
- London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887.
- Credits
- deaurider, Karin Spence 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
- QL: Science: Zoology
- Subject
- Bioluminescence
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 76132
- Release Date
- May 21, 2025
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.LIVING LIGHTS
- 3.PREFACE.
- 4.CONTENTS.
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 6.CHAPTER I. STARS OF THE SEA.
- 7.CHAPTER II. THE METEORS OF THE SEA.
- 8.CHAPTER III. FIXED LUMINARIES OF THE SEA.
- 9.CHAPTER IV. LUMINOUS ECHINODERMS.
- 10.CHAPTER V. SUBTERRANEAN LIGHT-GIVERS.
- 11.CHAPTER VI. LAMP SHELLS.
- 12.CHAPTER VII. LIGHTNING-BUGS.
- 13.CHAPTER VIII. FIRE-FLIES.
- 14.CHAPTER IX. LANTERN-FLIES.
- 15.CHAPTER X. BY CRAB-LIGHT.
- 16.CHAPTER XI. SEAS OF FLAME.
- 17.CHAPTER XII. FINNY LIGHT-BEARERS.
- 18.CHAPTER XIII. FINNY LIGHT-BEARERS—(SURFACE FORMS).
- 19.CHAPTER XIV. LUMINOUS BIRDS AND OTHER ANIMALS.
- 20.CHAPTER XV. MAN’S RELATIONS TO THE PHENOMENON OF PHOSPHORESCENCE.
- 21.CHAPTER XVI. LUMINOUS FLOWERS.
- 22.CHAPTER XVII. VEGETABLE LAMPS.
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII. PHANTOMS.
- 24.CHAPTER XIX. LUMINOUS SHOWERS.
- 25.CHAPTER XX. THE USES OF PHOSPHORESCENCE.
- 26.APPENDIX.
- 27.BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 28.INDEX.
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