Abstract
SIR Arthur Thomson divided his last book into four very unequal parts. The first consists of twenty-five brief chapters averaging four or five pages each, most of the titles of which end with a query mark: What is protoplasm ? Why do we fall asleep ? What are hormones ? How does our hair turn grey ? The second part contains fourteen somewhat longer chapters discussing such topics as homing, galls, walking in a circle and concluding with an amusing chapter on natural history in everyday conversation which recalls such phrases as ‘proud as a peacock’, ‘raining cats and dogs’ and others even more obscure. In Part 3 Sir Arthur treads the borderland between physiology and psychology and gives us six short chapters on animal intelligence, telepathy, dreams, and so on. In Part 4 he sets forth his views on the purpose of evolution, concluding with an epilogue on “The Wonder of the World”.
Scientific Riddles.
By Sir J. Arthur Thomson. Pp. 384. (London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1932.) 10s. 6d. net.
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Biology. Nature 131, 315–316 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131315c0
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