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 Sounds are to me more reminiscent than sights; they bring back the sensations of childhood, and indeed all memories of my past life, in a way more touching and clear than what is seen. Wendell Holmes claims the sense of smell as most closely associated with memory; for me, as I say, it is that of …
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