Project Gutenberg 2008-10-24 Public domain in the USA. 242 Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir 1847 1929 Lankester, Edwin Ray, Sir Lankester, Ray, Sir Lankester, Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) More Science from an Easy Chair 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. E-text prepared by Stacy Brown, Nick Wall, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team en Science Natural history Q Text Browsing: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming Browsing: Science - General 687546 687417 2024-08-11T11:38:51.624936 2023-09-12T05:33:35.196339 text/html text/html 695140 2008-10-24T17:25:42 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 2140261 2021-01-04T06:51:11 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 2286766 2024-08-11T11:39:02.193393 application/epub+zip 2294117 2024-08-11T11:38:53.915964 application/epub+zip 322124 2024-08-11T11:38:52.606910 application/epub+zip 2543936 2024-08-11T11:39:08.211352 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2499502 2024-08-11T11:39:01.066911 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 531915 2022-09-12T12:25:20.792806 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 624003 623915 2024-08-11T11:38:50.282962 2023-09-12T05:33:33.952336 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 623634 2021-01-04T06:51:10 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 233103 2021-01-04T06:51:11 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 623735 2021-01-04T06:51:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 232989 2021-01-04T06:51:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20585 2024-08-11T11:39:08.368328 application/rdf+xml 15897 2024-08-11T11:38:52.999906 image/jpeg 3762 2024-08-11T11:38:52.803908 image/jpeg 2210409 2024-08-11T11:38:51.766923 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia