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Science from an Easy Chair
E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir Lankester
A leading biologist invites you to talk science in comfort. Lankester ranges over Darwin's theory and its enduring strength, the training of a scientist, the ideas of Metchnikoff and Tolstoi, and the land of azure blue, all in warm, learned essays. A civilized tour of the natural world from an armchair. Settle in and let a great mind wander with you.
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50 chapters
- 1SCIENCE FROM AN EASY CHAIR
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5DIAGRAMS IN THE TEXT
- 6PLATES
- 7I SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
- 8II UNIVERSITY TRAINING
- 9III DARWIN’S THEORY
- 10IV DARWIN’S DISCOVERIES
- 11V DARWIN’S THEORY UNSHAKEN
- 12VI METCHNIKOFF AND TOLSTOI
- 13VII THE LAND OF AZURE BLUE
- 14VIII FRESH-WATER JELLY-FISHES
- 15IX THE STORY OF THE COMMON EEL
- 16X MODERN HORSES AND THEIR ANCESTORS
- 17XI A RIVAL OF THE FABLED UPAS TREE
- 18XII POISONS AND STINGS OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS
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