Science from an easy chair / by Sir Ray Lankester.

  • Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929.
Date:
[1910]
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Credit: Science from an easy chair / by Sir Ray Lankester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hooker, Sir Joseph, Darwin and Wallace papers communi¬ cated to Linnean Society by, 12, 13 I lop-blight, causes of, 317-319 prevention of, 318, 319 Hop-louse, 317 Hops, brewing industry as affecting growers of, 321 cultivation of, 315-316 curing of, 320 English growers as affected by American and German hop- plantations, 320, 321 uses made of, 315 Horses, absence from American continent in fifteenth century of living asses, zebras, and, 89 ancestral, change in size and pro¬ portions of, 84, 85 lower Tertiary Hyracotherium, 84 middle Tertiary, 84 “ pre-orbital cup” in Hip- parion, 85, 86 upper Tertiary Hipparion, 84- 86 ancestry of, scientific points of interest with regard to, 83- 90 descent from Arab ancestry evidenced by presence of “pre-orbital cup” in, 86 English thoroughbred, history and ancestors of, 82, 90 “ Ergot ” of, 89 European, stock from which de¬ rived, 77-78 fossil remains of extinct, in North and South America, 89, 90 mark of difference between asses, zebras, and, 87, 88 mastery and muzzling of, by 1 ancient cave-dwellers, 80, 81 «■ Mongolian wild, absence of “pre- orbital cup ” in, 86 derivation of European horses from, 77-78 description of, 78 prehistoric European, verified by ancient carvings found in caves, 79-81 Horses—continued selective breeding of, from time of cave-men onward, 82, 83 Southern or Arabian breeds of, presence of “pre-orbital cup ” in, 86, 87 House-sparrows, 266 Huxley, Professor, calculation of, with regard to fecundity of plant-lice, 338 Hydra, heraldic, derivation of, 116 Hyracotherium horse, 84 India, practice of opium eating in, 366 Infants, blindness of, congenital, 272 mortality of, varied congenital defects causing, 272 Insects, association of, with plants, 296 colour-protection and invisibility of, 304-312 destructive invasions made by various, 339~345 jumping bean as exemplifying association of plants and, 297, 298-300, 302 parthenogenetic powders possessed by certain, 331, 332 poisonous, methods of self-protec¬ tion used by, 101, 102 various weapons of, 111 “ silver-fish,” depredations of, 351 skin burrowing, 112, 113 wood-boring, 346-354 felly-fishes, common, description of, 58 fresh-water, discovery of African, 61, 62 Chinese, 63 Philadelphian, 63, 64 Regent’s Park, 59, 60 reproduction of, 60, 61 poison-bearing threads of sea- anemones and, no Jumping bean, Mexican, caterpillar contained in, 229, 300, 302 movements of, 298, 299, 302 plant from which derived, 301, 302 relationship of insect and plant exemplified in, 297, 298- 300, 302