Science from an Easy Chair
by Sir E. Ray Lankester
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929
- Credits
- Produced by Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Q: Science
- Subject
- Natural history
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 57136
- Release Date
- May 11, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SCIENCE FROM AN EASY CHAIR
- 2.PREFACE — CONTENTS — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — DIAGRAMS IN THE TEXT — PLATES
- 3.I SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
- 4.II UNIVERSITY TRAINING
- 5.III DARWIN’S THEORY
- 6.IV DARWIN’S DISCOVERIES
- 7.V DARWIN’S THEORY UNSHAKEN
- 8.VI METCHNIKOFF AND TOLSTOI
- 9.VII THE LAND OF AZURE BLUE
- 10.VIII FRESH-WATER JELLY-FISHES
- 11.IX THE STORY OF THE COMMON EEL
- 12.X MODERN HORSES AND THEIR ANCESTORS
- 13.XI A RIVAL OF THE FABLED UPAS TREE
- 14.XII POISONS AND STINGS OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS
- 15.XIII THE DRAGON: A FANCY OR A FACT
- 16.XIV OYSTERS
- 17.XV MATERNAL CARE AND MOLLUSCS
- 18.XVI THE HEART’S BEAT
- 19.XVII SLEEP
- 20.XVIII THE UNIVERSAL STRUCTURE OF LIVING THINGS
- 21.XIX PROTOPLASM, LIFE AND DEATH
- 22.XX CHEMISTRY AND PROTOPLASM
- 23.XXI THE SIMPLEST LIVING THINGS
- 24.XXII TADPOLES AND FROGS
- 25.XXIII ABOUT THE STARS
- 26.XXIV COMETS
- 27.XXV ABOUT CHOLERA
- 28.XXVI SEA-BREEZES, MOUNTAIN AIR, AND OZONE
- 29.XXVII OXYGEN GAS FOR ATHLETES AND OTHERS
- 30.XXVIII SPARROWS, TROUT, AND SELECTIVE BREEDING
- 31.XXIX THE FEEBLE-MINDED
- 32.XXX DEATH-RATES
- 33.XXXI GOSSAMER
- 34.XXXII THE JUMPING BEAN
- 35.XXXIII PROTECTIVE COLOURING IN ANIMALS
- 36.XXXIV HOP-BLIGHT
- 37.XXXV GREEN-FLIES, PLANT-LICE, AND PARTHENOGENESIS
- 38.XXXVI THE DEADLY PHYLLOXERA
- 39.XXXVII CLOTHES MOTHS
- 40.XXXVIII STONE AND WOOD BORERS
- 41.XXXIX CHRISTMAS FARE
- 42.XL THE ORIGIN OF OPIUM
- 43.XLI THE MOST ANCIENT MEN
- 44.XLII THE CAVE-MEN’S SKULLS
- 45.XLIII MORE ABOUT THE NEANDER MEN
- 46.INDEX
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