Excerpt from Popular Science News, Vol. 36: Formerly Boston Journal of Chemistry; A Popular Illustrated Monthly Devoted to the Progress in Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Archaeology, Hygiene, Invention, With Related Physical Sciences and General Scientific Information; January-December, 1902 Although artificial incubation, as a gen eral pursuit, is quite modern. The idea of it dates back into very remote ages. The dusky subjects of the Pharaohs practised it, not indeed as we do, but in great sand ovens known as mahmals. The Chin ese of the period of Confucius also hatched eggs - as they still do in certain parts of the Celestial Empire - entirely by the heat of the sun. 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.