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Science from an Easy Chair

by E. Ray Lankester

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2I — Science and Practice
  3. 3II — University Training
  4. 4III — Darwin’s Theory
  5. 5IV — Darwin’s Discoveries
  6. 6V — Darwin’s Theory Unshaken
  7. 7VI — Metchnikoff and Tolstoi
  8. 8VII — The Land of Azure Blue
  9. 9VIII — Fresh-Water Jelly-Fishes
  10. 10IX — The Story of the Common Eel
  11. 11X — Modern Horses and Their Ancestors
  12. 12XI — A Rival of the Fabled Upas Tree
  13. 13XII — Poisons and Stings of Plants and Animals
  14. 14XIII — The Dragon: A Fancy or a Fact
  15. 15XIV — Oysters
  16. 16XV — Maternal Care and Molluscs
  17. 17XVI — The Heart’s Beat
  18. 18XVII — Sleep
  19. 19XVIII — The Universal Structure of Living Things
  20. 20XIX — Protoplasm, Life and Death
  21. 21XX — Chemistry and Protoplasm
  22. 22XXI — The Simplest Living Things
  23. 23XXII — Tadpoles and Frogs
  24. 24XXIII — About the Stars
  25. 25XXIV — Comets
  26. 26XXV — About Cholera
  27. 27XXVI — Sea-Breezes, Mountain Air, and Ozone
  28. 28XXVII — Oxygen Gas for Athletes and Others
  29. 29XXVIII — Sparrows, Trout, and Selective Breeding
  30. 30XXIX — The Feeble-Minded
  31. 31XXX — Death-Rates
  32. 32XXXI — Gossamer
  33. 33XXXII — The Jumping Bean
  34. 34XXXIII — Protective Colouring in Animals
  35. 35XXXIV — Hop-Blight
  36. 36XXXV — Green-Flies, Plant-Lice, and Parthenogenesis
  37. 37XXXVI — The Deadly Phylloxera
  38. 38XXXVII — Clothes Moths
  39. 39XXXVIII — Stone and Wood Borers
  40. 40XXXIX — Christmas Fare
  41. 41XL — The Origin of Opium
  42. 42XLI — The Most Ancient Men
  43. 43XLII — The Cave-Men’s Skulls
  44. 44XLIII — More About the Neander Men
  45. 45A Selection of Books Published by Methuen and Company: London — 36…
  46. 46Part II — A Selection of Series

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