This collection of short stories focuses on the Scottish civil war of 1644-45, in which the Marquis of Montrose led his royalist forces in a series of stunning victories against the odds before his final defeat at Philiphaugh. Each of Hogg's five tales centres on one of the five major battles of Montrose's brilliant but ultimately futile campaign. Each tale is utterly different from the others in genre and tone, but taken together they build up a composite picture of what it was like to experience the 'anarchy and confusion' of the time at first hand.

Excerpt from Ontogeny and Systematics of Fishes: Based on an International Symposium Dedicated to the Memory of Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom Subsequently a number of factors have been identified to add to our corpus of knowledge on rearing. These include the need for good water quality, with the interesting idea of green water culture of larvae in fairly high densities of Chlorella which seems to damp out fluctuations in metabolites, and perhaps enhance oxygenation as well as providing secondary feeding for the larvae Houde, 1977; Morita, Adequate light for visually feeding larvae and the need to prevent excessive bunching of larvae or their prey are also important, as is the quality of the food. Success or failure may now depend on the fatty-acid profile of the Artemia nauplii which are still used by most workers in the later stages of rearing. Artificial diets of encapsulated or particulate food are also being developed but have yet to be introduced as a standard technique for early rearing. 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.

Prior to the First World War, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin’s foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), than from any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself. But, with detractors ranging from paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to modern-day creationists and advocates of intelligent design, Haeckel is better known as a divisive figure than as a pioneering biologist. Robert J. Richards’s intellectual biography rehabilitates Haeckel, providing the most accurate measure of his science and art yet written, as well as a moving account of Haeckel’s eventful life.