Leisure-time studies
Subtitle: chiefly biological : a series of essays and lectures
By: by Andrew Wilson.
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
Published: 1879
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Natural history
Table of contents: title: Contents: The place, method, and advantages of biology in ordinary education - Science-culture for the masses - A study of lower life - Some facts and fictions of zoology - The sea-serpents of science - Some animal architects - The genesis of life - Parasites and their development - The law of likeness, and its working - Some moot points in natural history - The origin of nerves - Animals and their environments - What I saw in an ant's nest - A summer's day - Science and poetry.