PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FIGURES 1 Flower of the Yellow Sage 4 2
MORE SCIENCE FROM AN EASY CHAIR
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
A FEW OF Messrs. Methuen's PUBLICATIONS
Title: More Science From an Easy Chair
Author: Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
Language: English
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MORE SCIENCE FROM AN EASY CHAIR
| Uniform with this Volume |
| 1 | The Mighty Atom | Marie Corelli |
| 2 | Jane | Marie Corelli |
| 3 | Boy | Marie Corelli |
| 231 | Cameos | Marie Corelli |
| 4 | Spanish Gold | G. A. Birmingham |
| 9 | The Unofficial Honeymoon | Doll Wyllarde |
| 18 | Round the Red Lamp | Sir A. Conan Doyle |
| 20 | Light Freights | W. W. Jacobs |
| 22 | The Long Road | John Oxenham |
| 71 | The Gates of Wrath | Arnold Bennett |
| 81 | The Card | Arnold Bennett |
| 87 | Lalage's Lovers | G. A. Birmingham |
| 92 | White Fang | Jack London |
| 108 | The Adventures of Dr. Whitty | G. A. Birmingham |
| 113 | Lavender and Old Lace | Myrtle Reed |
| 125 | The Regent | Arnold Bennett |
| 135 | A Spinner in the Sun | Myrtle Reed |
| 137 | The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu | Sax Rohmer |
| 143 | Sandy Married | Dorothea Conyers |
| 212 | Under Western Eyes | Joseph Conrad |
| 215 | Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo | E. Phillips Oppenheim |
| 224 | Broken Shackles | John Oxenham |
| 227 | Byeways | Robert Hichens |
| 229 | My Friend the Chauffeur | C. N. & A. M. Williamson |
| 259 | Anthony Cuthbert | Richard Bagot |
| 261 | Tarzan of the Apes | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 268 | His Island Princess | W. Clark Russell |
| 275 | Secret History | C. N. and A. M. Williamson |
| 276 | Mary All-alone | John Oxenham |
| 277 | Darneley Place | Richard Bagot |
| 278 | The Desert Trail | Dane Coolidge |
| 279 | The War Wedding | C. N. and A. M. Williamson |
| 281 | Because of these Things | Marjorie Bowen |
| 282 | Mrs. Peter Howard | Mary E. Mann |
| 288 | A Great Man | Arnold Bennett |
| 289 | The Rest Cure | W. B. Maxwell |
| 290 | The Devil Doctor | Sax Rohmer |
| 291 | Master of the Vineyard | Myrtle Reed |
| 293 | The Si-Fan Mysteries | Sax Rohmer |
| 294 | The Guiding Thread | Beatrice Harraden |
| 295 | The Hillman | E. Phillips Oppenheim |
| 296 | William, by the Grace of God | Marjorie Bowen |
| 297 | Below Stairs | Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick |
| 301 | Love and Louisa | E. Maria Albanesi |
| 302 | The Joss | Richard Marsh |
| 303 | The Carissima | Lucas Malet |
| 304 | The Return of Tarzan | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 313 | The Wall Street Girl | Frederick Orin Bartlett |
| 315 | The Flying Inn | G. K. Chesterton |
| 316 | Whom God Hath Joined | Arnold Bennett |
| 318 | An Affair of State | J. C. Snaith |
| 320 | The Dweller on the Threshold | Robert Hichens |
| 325 | A Set of Six | Joseph Conrad |
| 329 | '1914' | John Oxenham |
| 330 | The Fortune of Christina McNab | S. Macnaughtan |
| 334 | Bellamy | Elinor Mordaunt |
| 343 | The Shadow of Victory | Myrtle Reed |
| 344 | This Woman to this Man | C. N. and A. M. Williamson |
| 345 | Something Fresh | P. G. Wodehouse |
| |
| A short Selection only. |
| Uniform with this Volume |
| 36 | De Profundis | Oscar Wilde |
| 37 | Lord Arthur Savile's Crime | Oscar Wilde |
| 38 | Selected Poems | Oscar Wilde |
| 39 | An Ideal Husband | Oscar Wilde |
| 40 | Intentions | Oscar Wilde |
| 41 | Lady Windermere's Fan | Oscar Wilde |
| 77 | Selected Prose | Oscar Wilde |
| 85 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| 146 | A Woman of No Importance | Oscar Wilde |
| 43 | Harvest Home | E. V. Lucas |
| 44 | A Little of Everything | E. V. Lucas |
| 78 | The Best of Lamb | E. V. Lucas |
| 141 | Variety Lane | E. V. Lucas |
| 292 | Mixed Vintages | E. V. Lucas |
| 45 | Vailima Letters | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 80 | Selected Letters | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 46 | Hills and the Sea | Hilaire Belloc |
| 96 | A Picked Company | Hilaire Belloc |
| 193 | On Nothing | Hilaire Belloc |
| 226 | On Everything | Hilaire Belloc |
| 254 | On Something | Hilaire Belloc |
| 47 | The Blue Bird | Maurice Maeterlinck |
| 214 | Select Essays | Maurice Maeterlinck |
| 50 | Charles Dickens | G. K. Chesterton |
| 94 | All Things Considered | G. K. Chesterton |
| 54 | The Life of John Ruskin | W. G. Collingwood |
| 57 | Sevastopol and other Stories | Leo Tolstoy |
| 91 | Social Evils and their Remedy | Leo Tolstoy |
| 223 | Two Generations | Leo Tolstoy |
| 253 | My Childhood and Boyhood | Leo Tolstoy |
| 286 | My Youth | Leo Tolstoy |
| 58 | The Lore of the Honey-Bee | Tickner Edwardes |
| 63 | Oscar Wilde | Arthur Ransome |
| 64 | The Vicar of Morwenstow | S. Baring-Gould |
| 76 | Home Life in France | M. Betham-Edwards |
| 83 | Reason and Belief | Sir Oliver Lodge |
| 93 | The Substance of Faith | Sir Oliver Lodge |
| 116 | The Survival of Man | Sir Oliver Lodge |
| 284 | Modern Problems | Sir Oliver Lodge |
| 95 | The Mirror of the Sea | Joseph Conrad |
| 126 | Science from an Easy Chair | Sir Ray Lankester |
| 149 | A Shepherd's Life | W. H. Hudson |
| 200 | Jane Austen and her Times | G. E. Mitton |
| 218 | R. L. S. | Francis Watt |
| 234 | Records and Reminiscences | Sir Francis Burnand |
| 285 | The Old Time Parson | P. H. Ditchfield |
| 287 | The Customs of Old England | F. J. Snell |
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| A Selection only. |
MORE SCIENCE FROM
AN EASY CHAIR
BY
Sir RAY LANKESTER
K.C.B., F.R.S.
WITH 34 ILLUSTRATIONS
METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET, W.C.
LONDON
First Issued in this Cheap Form in 1920
Originally published by Messrs. Adlard & Son in 1913
First published by Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1914
Second Edition 1915
Third Edition 1920
