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SIGNED HARVARD CELL BIOLOGY CA. 1900 Papers Written by Holders of the Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship 1894-1909: Embryology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology

1894 · ref. 635 — Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology 1894-1909. First editions. 1894-1909 THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN CELL BIOLOGY: COLLECTION OF 14 ILLUSTRATED OFFPRINTS FROM HARVARD'S ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY INSCRIBED BY ITS DIRECTOR 2 SIGNED LETTERS. Two hardcover volumes 10 inches tall full black leather binding with raised bands gilt title to covers and spines gilt tooled leather interior borders with fine decorative paste-downs and free endpapers. Each volume contains 7 offprints retaining original wrappers most published in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University containing 71 lithographic plates some folding and/or color. Volume I contains an engraved dedication "To Mrs. Virginia Barret Gibbs from The Zoological Laboratory of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College." Each volume is inscribed in ink "With the best wishes of E. L. Mark March 151911" followed by a table of contents. Edges of the covers and spine ends are rubbed 2 light spots to front cover of Vol II. Paper cover of each offprint contains handstamp of E.L. Mark in upper right corner; texts and plates are unmarked. Overall very good. INCLUDED ARE 2 SIGNED LETTERS: 1 from Theodore K. Gibbs New York to Alex Agassiz Newport R.I. Sep 23 1892. "Dear Sir Being anxious that the Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship should begin this year & being anxious that said scholarship should be $250 Two hundred & fifty dollars I am therefore prepared to make up the difference between that sum & the interest in the five thousand dollars for this year. Again thanking you for the trouble you have taken in this matter. I remain sincerely yours Th." ALONG WITH 2 from E. L. Mark Zoological Laboratory Cambridge Mass to Mrs. T.K. Gibbs Newport R.I. March 13 1911. "My Dear Mrs. Gibbs: I thought it might interest you to see brought together the zoological papers that have been written by holders of the Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship since 1894. I trust you will accept the two volumes which I am sending with this as a slight token of appreciation of the aid which this scholarship has already afforded to students in Zoology. When I think of the years to come and the many more men who will be helped while devoting themselves to biological problems I am sure the grounds are ample for offering you as I do my hearty congratulations. Quite by chance I learned through Miss Clark that your birthday is near at hand so I am taking the liberty of making that day the date of this little remembrance. With high esteem and good wishes I am as ever Sincerely E.L. Mark." THEODORE K. GIBBS 1840-1909 was born in Newport Rhode Island in 1840 and was the youngest son of Rhode Island Governor William Channing Gibbs. Gibbs enlisted in the United States Army in October 1861 as the second lieutenant of the 1st Regiment of the United States Artillery and served throughout the American Civil War 1861-1865. Gibbs and his wife Virginia Barrett d. 1926 maintained homes in both New York City and Newport. THE VIRGINIA BARRET GIBBS SCHOLARSHIP FUND was established in connection with the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College to support one or more students who may have shown decided talents in Zoology and preferably in the direction of Marine Zoology. His studies and researches may be conducted at the Natural History Laboratories of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College at the Newport Marine Laboratory or at such European laboratories or other place on the sea-shore in this country or elsewhere as may be approved by the Faculty of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and by the Professors of Zoology and of Comparative Anatomy of Harvard University. –President's Report of Harvard College 1888-89 pub. 1890. ALEXANDER AGASSIZ 1835–1910 son of Louis Agassiz was an American scientist and engineer born in Neuchâtel Switzerland and immigrated to the United States with his father in 1849. Graduating from Harvard University with the degree of A.B. he entered the Lawrence Scientific School and two years later received from there the degree of Bachelor of Science. In 1859 he went to the Pacific coast where for a time he was engaged upon the North-West Boundary Survey. Upon his return in 1860 he became assistant in Zoology at the Museum of which he took charge during his father's absence in Brazil. From 1866 to 1869 he was superintendent of the Calumet and Hecla Copper Company which he developed from a state of insolvency into the most noted copper mine in the world. During the years 1869 and 1870 he carefully inspected the museums of England France Germany and Scandinavia after which he returned to his duties in Cambridge and succeeded his father as curator of the museum of comparative zoology which position he held until 1898 when he resigned to devote himself to his own expeditions. Agassiz served as a president of the National Academy of Sciences which since 1913 has awarded the Alexander Agassiz Medal in his memory. EDWARD LAURENS MARK 1847-1946 received his A.B. in 1871 from the University of Michigan. In 1873 he was the first American to obtain a doctorate in the laboratory of Rudolf Leuckart; receiving his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Leipzig in 1876. Bringing the cytological and histological approach with him to Harvard University in 1877 he was responsible for the introduction of advanced European microscopic techniques. After rising to Professor of Anatomy in 1885 he served as Director Bermuda Biological Station for Research from 1902 to 1931. Founded by Louis Agassiz the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology became the main center of zoological training in 19th century America. His students included Alexander Agassiz and Theodore Roosevelt. A prolific author Mark was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1903. THE MONOGRAPHS: VOLUME I: C. A. KOFOID. On some laws of cleavage in Limax land slug. A preliminary notice. Proceedings of the American Academy. 180-203. 1894. CHARLES ATWOOD KOFOID 1865–1947 earned his PhD from Harvard in 1900 after which he joined the Department of Zoology at the University of California serving as chair of the Department of Zoology for over 30 years. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. C. A. KOFOID. On the early development of Limax. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Vol. XXVIL No. 2. pp 35-117 8 plates. 1895. J. H. GEROULD. The Anatomy and Histology of Caudina arenata marine worm Gould. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Vol. XXIX No. 3. pp 124-190 8 plates. 1896. JOHN HIRAM GEROULD 1868-1961 graduated from Dartmouth College in 1890 and earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1895. Gerould then rose through the ranks of Dartmouth College from 1894 to 1918 where he established the first genetics and eugenics courses. S. GOTO. Vorlaufige Mittheilung uber die Entwicklung des Seesternes Asterias pallida starfish. Zoologischen Anzeiger 505 pp 1-3. 1896. SEITARO GOTO 1867–1935 was a Japanese student in the Department of Animal Science at the Imperial University of Science and studied in the United States in at Johns Hopkins University and then at Harvard University. After his return to Japan in 1896 he became professor at the Tokyo Imperial University in 1909. S. GOTO. Preliminary notes on the embryology of the starfish Asterias pallida. Proceedings of the American Academy. Pp 333-335. 1896. S. GOTO. The Metamorphosis of Asterias pallida with special reference to the fate of the body cavities. Journal of the College of Science Imperial University Tokyo Japan. X. Pt. III pp 239-278 6 plates 1898. F. W. BANCROFT. Ovogenesis in Distaplia occidentalis mushroom tunicate Ritter with remarks on other species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Vol. XXXV. No. 4. pp 59-112 6 plates 1899. FRANK WATTS BANCROFT 1871-1923 studied at Harvard University worked in the laboratory of Jacques Loeb and at the Rockefeller Institute. H. W. RAND. The regenerating nervous system of Lumbricidae earthworm and the centrosome of its nerve cells. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Vol. XXXVII. No. 3. pp 86-164 8 plates 1901. HERBERT WILBUR RAND 1872-1960 became a member of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Between 1900 and 1950 he published many texts on comparative anatomy. VOLUME II. M.A. BIGELOW. The early development of Lepas goose barnacle. A study of cell lineage and germ-layers. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Vol. XL. No. 2. pp 62-143 12 plates 1902. MAURICE ALPHEUS BIGELOW 1872-1955 received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1901 and became an early sex-educator and eugenicist. He served as president of the American Eugenics Society from 1940 until 1945. W. M. SMALLWOOD. The maturation fertilization and early cleavage of Haminea solitaria sea snail Say. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology E Vol. XLV. No. 4. pp 261-309 13 plates. 1904. WILLIAM MARTIN SMALLWOOD 1873-1949 was an American biologist and a professor at Syracuse University. Smallwood collected books and manuscript material related to the history of science in the United States much of which he donated to the Syracuse University Library. He also published a number of college biology texts in the early 20th century. F. W. CARPENTER. The reactions of the pomace fly Drosophila ampelophila Loew to light gravity and mechanical stimulation. American Naturalist Vol. XXXIX. No. 459. pp157-171. 1905. FREDERICK WALTER CARPENTER - 1924 was J. Pierpont Morgan Professor of Biology Trinity College Hartford CT from 1913 until his death in 1924. F. W. CARPENTER. The development of the oculomotor nerve ciliary ganglion and the abducent nerve in the chick. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Vol. XLVIII. No. 2. pp 142-228 7 plates. 1906. A.P. LARRABEE. The optic chiasma of teleosts: a study of inheritance. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Vol. XLII. No. 12. pp 217-231. 1906. AUSTIN P. LARRABEE 1878 - after training at Harvard became an ornithologist and later became professor at Yankton College South Dakota. E. D. CONGDON. The effect of temperature on the migration of retinal pigment in decapod crustaceans. Journal of Experimental Zoology Vol. IV. No. 4. pp 539-548. 1907. EDGAR DAVIDSON CONGDON 1879 - 1970 earned his doctorate at Harvard and later accepted a Rockefeller Scientist position teaching abroad which took him to China and Thailand. He moved back to the United States to teach at the Long Island College of Medicine and Chicago Medical College. G. T. HARGITT. Maturation fertilization and segmentation of Penaria tiarella hydroid Ayres and of Tubularia corcea Ag. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Vol. LIII No. 3. pp 162-208 9 plates. 1909. GEORGE THOMAS HARGITT 1881-1971 was Professor of Zoology and Director of Graduate Studies at Duke University. Museum of Comparative Zoology hardcover books