44 offprints by Minot, Charles S - 1883-1915

1883-1915. First editions.

ARCHIVE OF OFFPRINTS BY PIONEERING HARVARD EMBRYOLOGIST/GERONTOLOGIST--INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY HIM.

Two sammelband hardcover volumes 10 inches tall, black buckram binding, title to covers and spines, Vol. 1 containing 26 offprints, Vol. 2 containing 18 offprints, each with printed wraps as issued. Vol. 2 contains duplicates of 5 offprints in Vol. 1, and 1 title (Segmentation of the ovum) is divided into 2 issues of the journal.

CHARLES SEDGWICK MINOT (1852-1914) graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1872 and studied biology at Leipzig, Paris, and Würzburg. He was the James Stillman Professor of comparative anatomy and director of the anatomical laboratories at Harvard Medical School from 1880 until his death in 1914. His book on Human Embryology published in 1892 made him famous throughout the learned world, so that he was elected to learned societies in Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany and Belgium; as well as to all appropriate American societies. He also received honorary degrees from the universities of St. Andrew's (Scotland), Oxford (England), Toronto (Canada), and Yale. The leading American figure in human and comparative embryology in his day, Minot (1852-1914) is also well known for his invention (1886) of the automatic rotary microtome which he used for sectioning vertebrate embryos.He was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1901, and of the Association of American Anatomists from 1904 to 1905, and was corresponding member of various foreign societies. From 1912 to 1913 he served as Harvard exchange professor at Berlin and Jena.

CONTAINS TWO GARRISON-MORTON TITLES. 1) Uterus and embryo: I. Rabbit; II. Man. Ginn and Co., Boston 1889 - Reprinted from the Journal of Morphology, Vol. II, No. 3, April, 1889. (341)-462 pp. Four lithographed plates, 3 folding + 38 wood engravings in the text: GARRISON-MORTON No. 506. Inscribed and signed on cover "To Dr Hugo Strahl with the compliments of C.-S. Minot. This important study on the structure of the fetal envelopes was an outcome of Minot's preparation of his Treatise on Human Embryology (1892). Pages 438-452 are a 'Preliminary bibliography of works and articles specially relating to the foetal envelopes of mammals, exclusive of general works'. The detailed lithographs were prepared with a camera lucida by E. Stanley Abbot under Minot's supervision. Hugo Strahl, recipient of the offprint, was Harvard Professor of Anatomy. 2) The Problem of Age, Growth and Death. Offprint from The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. LXXI, June, Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec., 1907. - Pp. 481-96, 97-120, 193-216, 359-377, 455-473, 509-23; with 61 figs. Original wrappers. Edges of wrappers chipped. Stamp of Clarence W. Nichols, M.D. on front wrapper. First Edition. GARRISON-MORTON No. 132 (citing later 1908 book-form edition): "Minot's theory of aging, based on cytomorphosis and the rate of growth." COMPLETE LIST OF TITLES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.