The advancement of science : occasional essays & addresses / by E. Ray Lankester.

London : Macmillan, 1890.

vi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Copy 1 Note: Bookplate of Greville Matheson MacDonald

Degeneration: a chapter in Darwinism.--Biology and the state.--Pasteur and hydrophobia. From the Nineteenth century, July 1886.--Examinations. From the Universal review, November 1888.--The scientific results of the International fisheries exhibition, London, 1883.--Centenarianism. From Macmillan's magazine, October 1871.--Parthenogenesis. A review of Von Siebold's Beiträge zur parthenogenesis der arthropoden. From Nature, 10th October, 1872.--A theory of heredity. A review of Haeckel's pamphlet entitled Perigenesis der plastidule. From Nature, 15th July, 1876.--The history and scope of zoology. From the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia britannica.