Science from an Easy Chair
- Collection : Keith Hyatt
- Publisher : Methuen
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : col frontis, 1 b/w plate, 82 text illus
Description:
13th edition. Sir (Edwin) Ray Lankester (1847–1929), British zoologist and Director of the natural history departments and keeper of zoology at the British Museum (Natural History), South Kensington (appointed in 1898). Lankester also played a major role in establishing the field of popular science. His most important contribution in this field was the series of articles Science from an Easy Chair published in the Daily Telegraph. This volume articles published1908-1909, with a revised and corrected letterpress and additional illustrations.
Condition
8vo, orig. cloth, some wear. Signed and inscribed by the author to half-title. From the library of Keith Hyatt (d. 2021), acarologist at the Natural History Museum, London, with his name to front pastedown.
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