CONTENTS 



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XVI. PSYCHIC SCIENCE. BY SIR OLIVER LODGE . 505 



Statement of the Position Psychical Research First-fruits of 

 the Inquiry Concerning Citation of Illustrative Examples- 

 Visions or Apparitions of the Dead Clairvoyance or Lucidity 

 Psychometry Materializations Psychic Photography- 

 Direct Writing and Speaking Dowsing Travelling Clair- 

 voyance Apports Evidence for Survival More Elementary 

 Methods Summary. 



XVII. NATURAL HISTORY. IV. BOTANY . . 597 



Wonders of Plant Life: Dependence of Animals on Plant Life- 

 Importance of Minute Plants Variety of Plant Life Com- 

 mon Characters of Plants The Essential Parts of a Flower- 

 ing Plant The Laboratory of the Green Leaf What the 

 Green Plant Does The Capture of Sunlight What Food is 

 Used for Nutrition *f the Fungi Lichens as Double Plants 

 Flowering Parasites and Saprophytes The Story of the 

 Whin Root Fungi Insectivorous Plants Pitcher Plants- 

 Venus Fly-trap How Plants and Animals Agree The Tac- 

 tics of Plants The Part the Root Plays Plant Tropisms 

 Tendrils Light and Other Influences Sensitive Plants- 

 Plants Sleep? How Plants Protect Themselves. How Plants 

 are Reproduced: The Meaning of the Flower The Secret of 

 the Seed Why Flowers are Bright Wind Pollination- 

 Cross-Pollination, its Meaning Significance of the Seed- 

 The Travels of Plants Vegetative Multiplication Reproduc- 

 tion of the Lower Plants The Fall of the Leaf. 



XVIII. INTER-RELATIONS OF LIVING CREATURES. 



The Balance of Nature Nutritive Linkages Linkages Securing 

 Survival Cats and Clover The Case of Red Clover Distri- 

 bution of Seeds Ants and Seeds Fresh Water Mussels and 

 Minnows One Creature on Another Commensalism Sym- 



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