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

  • Ray Lankester
Date:
1912
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Credit: Science from an easy chair : a second series / by Sir Ray Lankester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX Acrobats, female Cretan, 253 Agglutination test for typhoid fever, 354 Ague and gnats, 332 Airy, Sir George, and the Shah, 265 Akkas, a pygmy race, 235 Alexins, 353 Alpenrose, 16 Alpine flowers, 17, 19 grass, 20 Altamira cavern, paintings of the,247 Alternation of generations in jelly¬ fish, tape - worms, sea- squirts, and ferns, 226 Ambergris, 94, 191, 274 Amethyst, origin of the name, 95 Ancestral mammals, 136, 137 Andaman Islanders, 230 Angel of death, the, 331 Animals exterminated by man, 367 Antelopes, large and small species of, 239 Anthropological garden, 234 Antitoxins, 348 the theory of their formation, 352 April fish, 268 Aquosity, 394 Aristotle, 86 and the mechanisms of living things, 390 on sexes of plants, 102 Aristotle’s notions on reproduction, 226 Arunta tribes of Australia, their theory of conception, 229 Ascidian, anatomy of (figure), 278 gill slits of, 285 tadpole brain and eyeof (figure),287 tadpole fixing itself by its head (figure), 288 Ascidians, gemdike colours of, 298 glass-like, 296, 302 or sea-squirts or tunicates, 277 et seq. phosphorescent, 299 various composite or compound kinds, 296 Assizes, black, 330 Augustus Caesar and the calendar, 262 Aurignacian statuettes, 255 Australians, their views on spiritual conception, 228 Bacteria as causes of disease, 339 Baking instead of roasting, 176 Barnacle fixes itself by its head, as does Ascidian tadpole, 295 history of the, 293 Bataillon, his discovery of artificial parthenogenesis, 213 Bate, Miss Dorothea, discovers a strange extinct beast, 149 Bav'eno, 23 Bayeux tapestry, horse from, 57 Beaver, when exterminated in Bri¬ tain, 367 Bees taken to New Zealand to ferti¬ lise clover, 363 fertilise sage, 4 Beluga, or white whale, 385 Bestiaries, 87 Bezoar-stone, 94 Birds of New Zealand, such as the Moa or Dinornis, Kiwi or Apteryx, Takahe or Notor- nis, Kakapo or Stringops, Huia or long-billed crow, Ivea or sheep-killing parrot, 359 26
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