PREFACE
CONTENTS
1 Science and the Study of Nature
2 The Desire to Know the World of Nature
3 Scares and Wonders
4 Work at the Pasteur Institute
5 The Sea Serpent
6 Giraffes and the Okapi
7 The Great Geologists of Last Century
8 Experiments with Precious Stones
9 Diamonds
10 Science and Fisheries
11 Discoveries as to Malaria
12 Malta Fever
13 A Cure for Sleeping Sickness
14 Tsetse-Flies and Disease
15 Monkeys and Fleas
16 The Jigger Flea
17 Public Estimate of the Value of Science
18 The Common House-fly and Others
19 Cerebral Inhibition
20 Colour-photography and Photographs of Mars
21 Origin of Names by Errors in Copying
22 False News as to Extinct Monsters
23 Mistletoe and Holly
24 The Cattle Show
25 The Experimental Method
26 Hypnotism and an Experiment on the Influence of the Magnet
27 Luminous Owls and Other Luminous Animals and Plants
28 Reminiscences of Lord Kelvin
29 The So-called Jargon of Science
30 Rats and the Plague
31 Ancient Temples and Astronomy
32 Alchemists of To-day and Yesterday
33 A Story of Sham Diamonds and Pearls
34 The Nature of Pearls
35 A King Who was a Zoologist
36 The Transmission to Offspring of Acquired Qualities
37 Variation and Selection Among Living Things
38 The Movement, Growth, and Dwindling of Glaciers
39 Votes for Women
40 Tobacco and the History of Smoking
41 Cruelty, Pain and Knowledge
Transcriber's Notes:
FROM AN EASY CHAIR
