Science from an easy chair : a second series / by Sir Ray Lankester.

  • Ray Lankester
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[1915]
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Credit: Science from an easy chair : a second series / by Sir Ray Lankester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SCIENCE FROM AN EASY CHAIR SECOND SERIES CHAPTER I A DAY IN THE OBERLAND I AM writing in early September from Interlaken, one of the loveliest spots in Europe when blessed with a full blaze of sunlight and only a few high-floating clouds, but absolutely detestable in dull, rainy weather, losing its beauty as the fairy scenes of a theatre do when viewed by dreary daylight. It is the case of the little girl of whom it is recorded that “ When she was good she was very good, and when she was not she was horrid.” This morning, after four days’ misconduct, Interlaken was very good. The tremendous sun-blaze seemed to fill the valleys with a pale blue luminous vapour, cut sharply by the shadows of steep hill-sides. Here and there the smoke of some burning weeds showed up as brightest blue. Far away through the gap formed in the long range of nearer mountains, where the Liitschine Valley opens into the vale of Interlaken, the Jungfrau appeared in full majesty, absolutely brilliant and unearthly. So I walked towards her up the valley. Zweiliitschinen is the name given to the spot where the valley divides into two,