01731cam a2200217 4500 377782118 TxAuBib 20170331120000.0 180511s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 57136 Project Gutenberg PGUSA eng TxAuBib Lankester, E. Ray, (Edwin Ray.) Science from an Easy Chair [Gutenberg] / E. Ray, Lankester. Project Gutenberg, 2018. Science and practice -- University training -- Darwin's theory -- Darwin's discoveries -- Darwin's theory unshaken -- Metchnikoff and Tolstoi -- The land of azure blue -- Fresh-water jelly-fishes -- The story of the common eel -- Modern horses and their ancestors -- A rival of the fabled upas tree -- Poisons and stings of plants and animals -- The dragon: a fancy or a fact -- Oysters -- Maternal care and molluscs -- The heart's beat -- Sleep -- The universal structure of living things -- Protoplasm, life and death -- Chemistry and protoplasm -- The simplest living things -- Tadpoles and frogs -- About the stars -- Comets -- About cholera -- Sea-breezes, mountain air, and ozone -- Oxygen gas for athletes and others -- Sparrows, trout, and selective breeding -- The feeble-minded -- Death-rates -- Gossamer -- The jumping bean -- Protective colouring in animals -- Hop-blight -- Green-flies, plant-lice, and parthenogenesis -- The deadly Phylloxera -- Clothes moths -- Stone and wood borers -- Christmas fare -- The origin of opium -- The most ancient men -- The cave-men's skulls -- More about the Neander Men. Public domain in the USA. Text. Natural history. Science. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57136 TXTLL