More Science From an Easy Chair

More Science From an Easy Chair

Ray Lankester, british zoologist (1847-1929)


This ebook presents «More Science From an Easy Chair», from Ray Lankester. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.


Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE

-03- A DAY IN THE OBERLAND

-04- SWITZERLAND IN EARLY SUMMER

-05- GLETSCH

-06- THE PROBLEM OF THE GALLOPING HORSE

-07- THE JEWEL IN THE TOAD'S HEAD

-08- ELEPHANTS

-09- A STRANGE EXTINCT BEAST

-10- VEGETARIANS AND THEIR TEETH

-11- FOOD AND COOKERY

-12- SMELLS AND PERFUMES

-13- KISSES

-14- LAUGHTER

-15- FATHERLESS FROGS

-16- PRIMITIVE BELIEFS ABOUT FATHERLESS PROGENY

-17- THE PYGMY RACES OF MEN

-18- PREHISTORIC PETTICOATS

-19- NEW YEAR'S DAY AND THE CALENDAR

-20- EASTERTIDE, SHAMROCKS AND SPERMACETI

-21- MUSEUMS

-22- THE SECRET OF A TERRIBLE DISEASE

-23- CARRIERS OF DISEASE

-24- IMMUNITY AND CURATIVE INOCULATIONS

-25- THE STRANGE STORY OF ANIMAL LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND

-26- THE EFFACEMENT OF NATURE BY MAN

-27- THE EXTINCTION OF THE BISON AND OF WHALES

-28- MORE ABOUT WHALES

-29- MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT SCIENCE