Science from an easy chair. [Science and practice -- University training -- Darwin's theory -- Darwin's discoveries -- Darwin's theory unshaken -- Metchnikoff and Tolstoi -- The land of azure blue -- Fresh-water jelly-fishes -- The story of the common eel -- Modern horses and their ancestors -- A rival of the fabled upas tree -- Poisons and stings of plants and animals -- The dragon : A fancy or a fact -- Oysters - - Maternal care and molluscs -- The heart's beat -- Sleep -- The universal structure of living things -- Protoplasm, life and death -- Chemistry and protoplasm -- The simplest living things -- Tadpoles and frogs -- About the stars -- Comets -- About cholera -- Sea-breezes, mountain air and ozone -- Oxygen gas for athletes]

5th ed. ; 86 illustrations ; xiii, 423, [31] p. col. frontispiece., plates, foldouts, tab. ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 10-24460 ; OCLC: 2553638 ; "Methuen's Colonial Library" ; "Collection of some of the papers . contributed to the Daily telegraph . 1908- 1909." ; Red cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; Contents: Science and practice -- University training -- Darwin's theory -- Darwin's discoveries -- Darwin's theory unshaken -- Metchnikoff and Tolstoi -- The land of azure blue -- Fresh-water jelly-fishes -- The story of the common eel -- Modern horses and their ancestors -- A rival of the fabled upas tree -- Poisons and stings of plants and animals -- The dragon : A fancy or a fact -- Oysters - - Maternal care and molluscs -- The heart's beat -- Sleep -- The universal structure of living things -- Protoplasm, life and death -- Chemistry and protoplasm -- The simplest living things -- Tadpoles and frogs -- About the stars -- Comets -- About cholera -- Sea-breezes, mountain air and ozone -- Oxygen gas for athletes and others -- Sparrows, trout, and selective breeding -- The feeble-minded -- Death rates -- Gossamer -- The jumping bean -- Protective colouring in animals -- Hop blight -- Green flies, plant lice and parthenogenesis -- The deadly phylloxera -- Clothes moths -- Stone and wood borers -- Christmas fare -- The origin of opium -- The most ancient trees -- The cavemen's skulls -- More about the Neander Men. ; VG.…