Collected from Lankester’s 1908–1909 columns in the Daily Telegraph, these essays defend Darwin’s theory, weigh Metchnikoff against Tolstoy, and explain freshwater jellyfish, the life story of the common eel, the ancestry of the horse, and the poisons and stings of plants and animals. One asks whether the dragon is fancy or fact.
Popular science from a leading Victorian zoologist; the companion to More Science from an Easy Chair already in the library. Download the free EPUB.