From an Easy Chair

CONTENTS

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1.	Science and the Study of Nature	1
2.	The Desire to Know the World of Nature	3
3.	Scares and Wonders	5
4.	Work at the Pasteur Institute	9
5.	The Sea Serpent	10
6.	Giraffes and the Okapi	11
7.	The Great Geologists of Last Century	14
8.	Experiments with Precious Stones	19
9.	Diamonds	23
10.	Science and Fisheries	27
11.	Discoveries as to Malaria	29
12.	Malta Fever	34
13.	A Cure for Sleeping Sickness	36
14.	Tsetse-Flies and Disease	38
15.	Monkeys and Fleas	41
16.	The Jigger Flea	42
17.	Public Estimate of the Value of Science	43
18.	The Common House-fly and Others	45
19.	Cerebral Inhibition	48
20.	Colour-photography and Photographs of Mars	49
21.	Origin of Names by Errors in Copying	50
22.	False News as to Extinct Monsters	51
23.	Mistletoe and Holly	52
24.	The Cattle Show	55
25.	The Experimental Method	59
26.	Hypnotism and an Experiment on the Influence of the Magnet	60
27.	Luminous Owls and Other Luminous Animals and Plants	65
28.	Reminiscences of Lord Kelvin	68
29.	The So-called Jargon of Science	70
30.	Rats and the Plague	73
31.	Ancient Temples and Astronomy	78
32.	Alchemists of To-day and Yesterday	84
33.	A Story of Sham Diamonds and Pearls	88
34.	The Nature of Pearls	89
35.	A King Who was a Zoologist	93
36.	The Transmission to Offspring of Acquired Qualities	97
37.	Variation and Selection Among Living Things	103
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