Chapters (181)
- FROM AN EASY CHAIR
- 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
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