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Rustic Sounds, and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History
Francis, Sir Darwin
Charles Darwin's son shares his father's gift for looking closely at the living world. Francis Darwin writes on the movements of plants, a lane in the Cotswolds, and the makers of pipe and tabor, mixing botany with literature and country life. Graceful essays from a scientific family's second generation. Wander between the laboratory and the hedgerow with a thoughtful guide.
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26 chapters
- 1RUSTIC SOUNDS
- 2CONTENTS
- 3I RUSTIC SOUNDS
- 4II. FRANCIS GALTON [13] 1822–1911
- 5III THE MOVEMENTS OF PLANTS [36]
- 6IV A LANE IN THE COTSWOLDS
- 7V JANE AUSTEN
- 8VI. THE EDUCATION OF A MAN OF SCIENCE
- 9VII. THE PIPE AND TABOR
- 10APPENDIX I DRAWINGS AND CARVINGS OF PIPERS
- 11APPENDIX II THE FINGERING OF THE 3-HOLED PIPER
- 12VIII STEPHEN HALES [115] 1677–1761
- 13Assimilation.
- 14IX NULLIUS IN VERBA [140]
- 15X SIR GEORGE DARWIN [152a]
- 16Cambridge.
- 17Games and Pastimes.
- 18Scientific Committees.
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