Abstract
IN this volume of forty-three collected papers, the popularisation of science surely reaches high-water mark. To be vividly interesting without offending against accuracy, to season an abundance of solid fact with ideas so that the result is an intellectual feast, to illustrate scientific method by stratagem so subtle that the reader does not know he is being educated—that is what Sir Ray Lankester has achieved. He calls it “Science from an Easy Chair,” and so be it; but we hope the delighted reader will realise that it is science from a rich experience of lifelong observation and research. Since Huxley, no one has had a deeper influence on British zoology than the author, and even these parerga show the hand of a master. Science from an Easy Chair. By Sir Ray Lankester Pp. xiii + 423. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1910.) Price 6s.
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