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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

		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.

CONTENTS