Diversions of a Naturalist - (Illustrated Edition) #431298

Contents
On a Norwegian fiord -- Nature-reserves -- Far from the madding crowd -- The great grey seal -- The grouse and other birds -- The sand and pebbles of the seashore -- The constituents of a seabeach -- Quicksands and fire-stones -- Amber -- Sea-worms and sea-anemones -- Coral-makers and jelly-fish -- Shrimps, crabs, and barnacles -- Barnacles and other crustaceans -- The history of the barnacle and the goose -- More as to the barnacle and the goose -- Sea-shells on the seashore -- Sand-hoppers -- A Swiss interlude -- Science and dancing -- Courtship -- Courtship in animals and man -- Courtship and display -- Courtship, instinct and reason -- Daddy-Long-Legs -- The moth and the candle -- From ape to man -- The skeleton of apes and of man -- The brain of apes and of man -- The mind of apes and of man -- The missing link -- The supply of pure milk -- Christmas trees and other pine trees -- The lymph and the lymphatic system -- The blood and its circulation -- Fish and fast days -- Science and the unknown -- Divination and palmistry -- Toads found living in stone -- The divining-rod -- Birth-marks and telegony -- How to promote scientific discovery by money.

Sir Edwin Ray Lankester KCB FRS (15 May 1847 – 13 August 1929) was a British zoologist.

An invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist, he held chairs at University College London and Oxford University. He was the third Director of the Natural History Museum, and was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society.

As a zoologist Lankester was a comparative anatomist of the Huxley school, working mostly on invertebrates. He was the first to show the relationship of the horseshoe crab or Limulus to the Arachnida. His Limulus specimens can still be seen in the Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL today. He was also a voluminous writer on biology for the general readership; in this he followed the example of his old mentor, Huxley.

In 1903 he was invited to deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on Extinct Animals.