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The oceanic Hydrozoa; a description of the Calycophoridae and Physophoridae observed during the voyage of H.M.S. "Rattlesnake" in the years 1846-1850. With a general introduction.

Best.-Nr. 57707London The Ray Society 1859. Folio 34.9 x 26.1 cm. x 143 pp.; 12 engraved plates with explanatory text leaves a few text figures. Contemporary half morocco over grained cloth boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Yellow endpapers. = A well-bound copy of this important work written by Darwin's Bulldog the zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley 1825-1895 who was a ship's assistant surgeon and naturalist on board of HMS Rattlesnake. The Rattlesnake charted the Great Barrier Reef and the seas northwards to New Guinea. "Huxley's paper On the anatomy and the affinities of the family of Medusae' was published in 1849 by the Royal Society in its Philosophical Transactions. Huxley united the Hydroid and Sertularian polyps with the Medusae to form a class to which he subsequently gave the name of Hydrozoa. The connection he made was that all the members of the class consisted of two cell layers enclosing a central cavity or stomach. This is characteristic of the phylum now called the Cnidaria. He compared this feature to the serous and mucous structures of embryos of higher animals. When at last he got a grant from the Royal Society for the printing of plates Huxley was able to summarise this work in The Oceanic Hydrozoa published by the Ray Society in 1859'. The value of Huxley's work was recognised and on returning to England in 1850 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In the following year at the age of twenty-six he not only received the Royal Society Medal but was also elected to the Council" Wikipedia. Provenance: armorial bookplate of Lord Avebury 'auctor pretiosa facit' mounted on the front pastedown. Most probably John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury 4th Baronet 1834-1913 ".an English banker Liberal politician philanthropist scientist and polymath. Lubbock worked in his family company as a banker but made significant contributions in archaeology ethnography and several branches of biology. He coined the terms "Paleolithic" and "Neolithic" to denote the Old and New Stone Ages respectively. He helped establish archaeology as a scientific discipline and was influential in debates concerning evolutionary theory. He introduced the first law for the protection of the UK's archaeological and architectural heritage"Wikipedia. Also on the front pastedown a discrete Newcastle-upon-Tyne bookseller's label. Some shelf wear to spine tends and board edges; several plates rather foxed as usual. Nissen ZBI 2065. hardcover

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A Course of Elementary Instruction in Practical Biology

1883Best.-Nr. 1382London: Macmillan and Co. 1883. Revised edition 1st 1875. 1875 T H HUXLEY'S LABORATORY GUIDE TO BIOLOGY NEWLY COMBINED BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 7 inches tall hardcover red cloth binding blindstamped publisher's seal to front cover gilt title to spine black endpapers i-xi 279 pp 72-page publisher's catalogue. Spine faded otherwise unmarked and very good in custom archival mylar cover. From Preface: "Very soon after I began to teach Natural History or what we now call Biology at the Royal School of Mines some twenty years ago I arrived at the conviction that the study of living bodies is really one discipline which is divided into Zoology and Botany simply as a matter of convenience; and that the scientific Zoologist should no more be ignorant of the fundamental phenomena of vegetable life than the scientific Botanist of those of animal existence. Moreover it was obvious that the road to a sound and thorough knowledge of Zoology and Botany lay through Morphology and Physiology; and that as in the case of all other physical sciences so in these sound and thorough knowledge was only to be obtained by practical work in he laboratory." THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 1825 – 1895 was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Huxley had little formal schooling and was virtually self-taught. He became perhaps the finest comparative anatomist of the later 19th century. He worked on invertebrates clarifying relationships between groups previously little understood. Later he worked on vertebrates especially on the relationship between apes and humans. After comparing Archaeopteryx with Compsognathus he concluded that birds evolved from small carnivorous dinosaurs a belief still widely held today. The thirty-one years during which Huxley occupied the chair of natural history at the Royal School of Mines included work on vertebrate paleontology and on many projects to advance the place of science in British life. When Huxley himself was young there were virtually no degrees in British universities in the biological sciences and few courses. Most biologists of his day either were self-taught or took medical degrees. When he retired there were established chairs in biological disciplines in most universities and a broad consensus on the curricula to be followed. Huxley was the single most influential person in this transformation. Huxley was also a major influence in the direction taken by British schools: in November 1870 he was elected to the London School Board in its first elections. Macmillan and Co. hardcover

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