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Excerpt from Science From an Easy Chair This volume is a collection of some of the papers which I have contributed to the Daily Telegraph during the years 1908-1909, under the title "Science from an Easy Chair." I have revised and corrected the letterpress, and have added some illustrations. A smaller volume containing earlier papers was published by Messrs. Constable in 1908, with the title From an Easy Chair. It is my intention now to produce additional volumes (under the title "Easy Chair Series") as their constituent articles accumulate, and I hope to be able to publish a second and a third instalment at no distant date. I should like to draw the special attention of the reader to the Frontispiece (Plate I.), which is very beautifully executed, and is, I believe, the first coloured drawing yet published showing the difference between the adult "silver" eel and the more abundant immature "yellow" eel - sometimes called the "frogmouthed eel." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.