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Cobbold, Thomas Spencer, Flower, William Henry, Huxley, Thomas Henry, Kirk, John, Mivart, St George Jackson and Murie, JamesBiblio.com

Papers by Doctors Murie Mivart Flower Cobbold Etc.

1860rif. 1908London: Zoological Society of London 1860-1872. First editions. 44 OFFPRINTS COLLECTED BY PROMINENT BRITISH NATURALIST AUTHORED AND INSCRIBED BY COLLEAGUES IN THE DECADE FOLLOWING DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 14x21.5 cm 3/4 leather & burgundy cloth bound collection of offprints from Proc Zool Soc London 1860-1872 presumably collected by JB Pettigrew to whom a number of the papers is inscribed by the authors. The papers vary in length from 2 pages to substantial monographs total size in the region of 400 pp. with 10 colored plates and several full page engraved plates as well as numerous text ills. Most concern mammalian or avian anatomy. Of the 44 29 are by James Murie 2 jointly with Mivart 6 by Mivart alone 3 by Cobbold and 4 by Flower and one each by Kirk and Huxley. Flower sided with Darwin against Richard Owen over the nature of the human brain and one of the papers here is on the anatomy including brain of the South American saki monkey Pithecia monachus. Cobbold was a leading authority on helminthology on which a 22 pp. paper is included here along with one on the anatomy of the giraffe. Murie himself is best known for work on the Thames fisheries and some African adventures but was for some time assistant in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. He appears to have been a friend of Pettigrew 13 of his papers being inscribed to him sometimes as 'my friend' or similar. Pettigrew was an eminent Scottish naturalist and museum curator who became a leading authority on animal locomotion and flight even designing an ornithopter on which he published several works as well as an anti-Darwinian 3 volume book on 'Design in Nature' completed 1908. This volume is in excellent condition being internally clean and tight with only occasional brown spotting though there is some cloth fading and surface marking to leather on gilt panelled spine. The spine label has gone but impression remains reading 'Papers by Doctors Murie Mivart Flower Cobbold &c'. It was apparently one of a series of similar volumes being numbered 'III' in one of the panels. An early hand-written list of the paper titles is laid in but missing 2 papers by Murie. THOMAS SPENCER COBBOLD 1828 - 1886 was an English scientist. After graduating in medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1851 he was appointed lecturer on botany at St Mary's Hospital London in 1857 and also on zoology and comparative anatomy at Middlesex Hospital in 1861. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1864. His special subject was helminthology particularly the worms parasitic in man and animals and as a physician he gained a considerable reputation in the diagnosis of cases depending on the presence of such organisms. WILLIAM HENRY FLOWER 1831 - 1899 was an English comparative anatomist and surgeon. Flower became a leading authority on mammals and especially on the primate brain. He supported Thomas Henry Huxley in an important controversy with Richard Owen about the human brain and eventually succeeded Owen as Director of the Natural History Museum. Flower succeeded John Thomas Quekett as Conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on the recommendation of Huxley and others. Flower became associated with Huxley's controversy with Richard Owen concerning the human brain. Owen had erroneously said that the human brain had structures that were not present in other mammals and separated man off into a Sub-Class of its own instead of a genus in the primates. At the 1862 meeting in Cambridge when Owen read a paper maintaining his claims Flower stood up and said "I happen to have in my pocket a monkey's brain" - and produced the object in question! report in the Times. In 1882 he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society. He was President of the Zoological Society of London from 1879 to 1899. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 1825 – 1895 was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialised in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. He became 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. JOHN KIRK 1832 - 1922 was a Scottish physician naturalist companion to explorer David Livingstone and British administrator in Zanzibar. He earned his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh. He was a keen botanist throughout his life and was highly regarded by successive directors of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: William Hooker Joseph Dalton Hooker and William Thistleton-Dyer. ST. GEORGE JACKSON MIVART 1827 - 1900 was an English biologist initially an ardent believer in natural selection but later becoming one of its fiercest critics. Mivart attempted to reconcile Darwin's theory of evolution with the beliefs of the Catholic Church and finished by being condemned by both parties. Fellow of the Linnean Society from 1862 Secretary from 1874-80 and Vice-President in 1892. In 1867 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work "On the Appendicular skeleton of the Primates". Mivart was someone Darwin took seriously. One of his criticisms to which Darwin responded in later editions of the Origin of Species was a perceived failure of natural selection to explain the incipient stages of useful structures. Taking the eye as an example Darwin was able to show many stages of light sensitivity and eye development in the animal kingdom as proof of the utility of less than perfect sight argument by intermediate stages. JAMES MURIE 1832-1925 earned his MD from the University of Glasgow and specializing in zoology he first worked at the Royal Infirmary Glasgow proceeding to the Royal College of Surgeons in London as assistant in the Museum where under Prof. J. E. Queckett he was a comparative anatomist specializing in aquatic mammals. PROVENANCE: JAMES BELL PETTIGREW 1834 - 1908 was a distinguished naturalist in Edinburgh and London and at St Andrews University from 1875 until his death. Pettigrew was an internationally acknowledged authority on animal locomotion. In 1862 Pettigrew accepted the post of Assistant Curator at the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London which he held for five years. In 1867 he retired to Ireland to study the flight of birds and bats. In 1868 at the age of 36 Pettigrew was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1873 Pettigrew published Animal Locomotion: or Walking Swimming and Flying his most popular work. COMPLETE LIST OF PAPERS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Zoological Society of London hardcover