CONTENTS
PAGE1.Science and the Study of Nature12.The Desire to Know the World of Nature33.Scares and Wonders54.Work at the Pasteur Institute95.The Sea Serpent106.Giraffes and the Okapi117.The Great Geologists of Last Century148.Experiments with Precious Stones199.Diamonds2310.Science and Fisheries2711.Discoveries as to Malaria2912.Malta Fever3413.A Cure for Sleeping Sickness3614.Tsetse-Flies and Disease3815.Monkeys and Fleas4116.The Jigger Flea4217.Public Estimate of the Value of Science4318.The Common House-fly and Others4519.Cerebral Inhibition4820.Colour-photography and Photographs of Mars4921.Origin of Names by Errors in Copying5022.False News as to Extinct Monsters5123.Mistletoe and Holly5224.The Cattle Show5525.The Experimental Method5926.Hypnotism and an Experiment on the Influence of the Magnet6027.Luminous Owls and Other Luminous Animals and Plants6528.Reminiscences of Lord Kelvin6829.The So-called Jargon of Science7030.Rats and the Plague7331.Ancient Temples and Astronomy7832.Alchemists of To-day and Yesterday8433.A Story of Sham Diamonds and Pearls8834.The Nature of Pearls8935.A King Who was a Zoologist9336.The Transmission to Offspring of Acquired Qualities9737.Variation and Selection Among Living Things10338.The Movement, Growth, and Dwindling of Glaciers10839.Votes for Women11740.Tobacco and the History of Smoking12441.Cruelty, Pain, and Knowledge131