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Title: Rustic Sounds
and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History

Author: Francis Darwin

Release Date: September 27, 2010 [eBook #34006]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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RUSTIC SOUNDS

AND OTHER
STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND
NATURAL HISTORY

* * * * *

BY
SIR FRANCIS DARWIN

* * * * *

With Illustrations

* * * * *

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1917

CONTENTS

PAGE
I Rustic Sounds 1
II Francis Galton 13
III The Movement of Plants 36
IV A Lane in the Cotswolds 55
V Jane Austen 61
VI The Education of a Man of Science 78
VII The Pipe and Tabor 97
VIII Stephen Hales 115
IX Nullius in Verba 140
X Sir George Darwin 152
XI War Music 195
XII The Teaching of Science 201
XIII Picturesque Experiments 210
XIV Dogs and Dog Lovers 219
Plate Pipe and Tabor to face 102

To
F. H. D.

I
RUSTIC SOUNDS

Sounds are to me mor