From an Easy Chair
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE3. 1. Science and the Study of Nature4. 2. The Desire to Know the World of Nature5. 3. Scares and Wonders6. 4. Work at the Pasteur Institute7. 5. The Sea Serpent8. 6. Giraffes and the Okapi9. 7. The Great Geologists of Last Century10. 8. Experiments with Precious Stones11. 9. Diamonds12. 10. Science and Fisheries13. 11. Discoveries as to Malaria14. 12. Malta Fever15. 13. A Cure for Sleeping Sickness16. 14. Tsetse-Flies and Disease17. 15. Monkeys and Fleas18. 16. The Jigger Flea19. 17. Public Estimate of the Value of Science20. 18. The Common House-fly and Others21. 19. Cerebral Inhibition22. 20. Colour-photography and Photographs of Mars23. 21. Origin of Names by Errors in Copying24. 22. False News as to Extinct Monsters25. 23. Mistletoe and Holly26. 24. The Cattle Show27. 25. The Experimental Method28. 26. Hypnotism and an Experiment on the Influence of the Magnet29. 27. Luminous Owls and Other Luminous Animals and Plants30. 28. Reminiscences of Lord Kelvin31. 29. The So-called Jargon of Science32. 30. Rats and the Plague33. 31. Ancient Temples and Astronomy34. 32. Alchemists of To-day and Yesterday35. 33. A Story of Sham Diamonds and Pearls36. 34. The Nature of Pearls37. 35. A King Who was a Zoologist38. 36. The Transmission to Offspring of Acquired Qualities39. 37. Variation and Selection Among Living Things40. 38. The Movement, Growth, and Dwindling of Glaciers41. 39. Votes for Women42. 40. Tobacco and the History of Smoking43. 41. Cruelty, Pain and Knowledge