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FROM AN EASY CHAIR
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
EXTINCT ANIMALS
By Sir E. RAY LANKESTER, F.R.S. With a Portrait of the Author, and 218 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. Second Edition, Price 7s. 6d. net.
NATURE.—“We give the book a hearty welcome, feeling sure that its perusal will draw many young recruits to the army of naturalists, and many readers to its pages.”
THE KINGDOM OF MAN
By Sir E. RAY LANKESTER, F.R.S. With about 60 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. Second Edition. Price 3s. 6d. net.
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FROM AN EASY CHAIR
BY SIR RAY LANKESTER, K.C.B., F.R.S.
“The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
R. L. Stevenson
LONDON
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO., Ltd.
1909
Richard Clay and Sons, Limited BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.
Published October, 1908. Reprinted January, 1909.