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A Stereoscopic Atlas of the Chick

1937réf. 1565Los Angeles: California Laboratory Supply Co. 1937. 1937 RARE COMPLETE SET OF OVER 100 PHOTOGRAPHIC STEREOSCOPE CARDS ILLUSTRATING EMBRYOLOGY OF THE CHICK WITH OPTICAL VIEWER. Printed card with Table of Contents and 113 photographic stereoscope cards printed card plate cards 1-109 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches plate cards 110-113 4 x 6 inches in original blue paper-covered box with gilt title to side folding stereoscopic viewer with steel frame and glass lenses printed illustrated instructions for use. Also enclosed is a "sample copy" of "one of a set of 10 photographs of dissections of the 15-day rat embryo. Surface wear to box but intact without repairs; complete and very good. JOSEPH ABRAHAM LONG 1879-1953 had a remarkably long association with the University of California: forty-five years. He joined the faculty in Zoology as an Instructor in 1908 immediately after the completion of his doctor's degree at Harvard University. Long's major teaching effort was in embryology; he organized and developed courses in general vertebrate and advanced mammalian morphogenesis. His widely known atlases of chick and rat development co-authored with his associate Dr. Paul L. Burlingame represent a major contribution to instruction in developmental anatomy. These labelled stereoscopic photographs of beautifully prepared specimens--whole mounts India-ink-injected embryos and microscopic dissections--greatly facilitate the students' understanding of structural relationships in the vertebrate embryo by providing striking and illuminating three-dimensional views of the unfolding ever changing morphogenic patterns. Professor Long was a master technician skilled in the preparation of biological material for microscopic study. A few examples of Long's inventiveness may be cited: a unique method for dissecting embryos by means of electrically operated knives made from slivers of razor blades and by needles held and delicately controlled by a system of levers; a complete photographic assembly inclined camera illuminator specimen holder etc. for making stereoscopic photomicrographs of dissected embryos; and a remarkably complex organ-culture apparatus with mechanical heart reservoirs filters and aerators. The investigations with Professor Evans on the estrous cycle of the rat are classic and culminated in 1922 in a volume in the University of California Memoirs. This monograph has been basic to many researches throughout the world in embryology histology endocrinology and reproductive physiology. The Long-Evans strain of rats now used in many laboratories is another legacy--a living one--of that fruitful collaboration. California Laboratory Supply Co.