Laelaps

I was hoping someone would tag me for the "5-56" meme that has just started going around. (Thanks, Bora!)

The rules are that you have to pick 10 books (of whatever genre, chosen any way you see fit) and transcribe the 5th sentence on page 56 of each book. If you're slick you can use Google Books to figure out where the quotes I have selected came from, but it's a lot more fun to guess. Here are my picks;

1: "Above, i.e. towards the elbow, a tubercle of the radius plays into a socket of the ulna; whilst below, i.e. towards the wrist, the radius finds the socket, and the ulna the tubercle."

2: "The names given to these are; Aurignacian (from Aurignac in the Haute-Garonne, where there is a grotto explored by Lartet), Soultrean (from Soultre, Saone-et-Loire), and Magadalenian (from La Madeleine, in the Dordogne)."

3: "On 26 December, as the ship sailed on a warm breeze, Huxley dwelt on the dark, mocking disguises of Romantic Nature."

4: "In the second place, the problem of functional integration becomes much simpler if useful mutations are very small but numerous and may, indeed, be insuperable if mutations are few and large."

5: "During this time, females solicit matings from males, but only juveniles and adolescents usually show much interest."

6: "All discussions of fin-limb homology must begin with the metapterygial axis, which is the poximodistal trajectory through the metapterygium."

7: "No doubt semi-monstrous breeds might have been formed: thus Mr. Waterton records the case of a mare which produced successively three foals without tails; so that a tailless rave might have been formed like the tailless races of dogs and cats."

8: "He therefore made, it would appear, no attempt to frame any single exclusive scheme of classification even of animals."

9: "Even Common Sense Realism, although surely a foundation for empiricism, was based ultimately on an appeal to pre-rational intuitions that left room for moral sentiments."

10: "'If a man-eater kills a native and leaves part of his victim uneaten, he will almost certainly return to the body just as he does in the case of wild game.'"

If you'd like to hazard a guess as to where any of these quotes came from, speak up in the comments.

I tag Bonnie, ReBecca, Neil, John, and Mike.