More Science from an Easy Chair by Sir E. Ray Lankester

Read now or download (free!)

Choose how to read this book Url Size
Read online (web) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27015.html.images 671 kB
EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27015.epub3.images 2.2 MB
EPUB (older E-readers) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27015.epub.images 2.2 MB
EPUB (no images, older E-readers) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27015.epub.noimages 315 kB
Kindle https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27015.kf8.images 2.4 MB
older Kindles https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27015.kindle.images 2.4 MB
Plain Text UTF-8 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27015.txt.utf-8 609 kB
Download HTML (zip) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/27015/pg27015-h.zip 2.1 MB
There may be more files related to this item.

About this eBook

Author Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929
Title More Science from an Easy Chair
Contents A day in the Oberland -- Switzerland in early summer -- Gletsch -- The problem of the galloping horse -- The jewel in the toad's head -- Elephants -- A strange extinct beast -- Vegetarians and their teeth -- Food and cookery -- Smells and perfumes -- Kisses -- Laughter -- Fatherless frogs -- Primitive beliefs about fatherless progeny -- The pygmy races of men -- Prehistoric petticoats -- New Year's Day and the calendar -- Eastertide, shamrocks and spermaceti -- Museums -- The secret of a terrible disease -- Carriers of disease -- Immunity and curative inoculations -- The strange story of animal life in New Zealand -- The effacement of nature by man -- The extinction of the bison and of whales -- More about whales -- Misconceptions about science.
Language English
LoC Class Q: Science
Subject Science
Subject Natural history
Category Text
EBook-No. 27015
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Jan 4, 2021
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
Downloads 45 downloads in the last 30 days.
Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free!