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The Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory
by Lillie, Frank R
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944. First edition.
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, WOODS HOLE, BY EMINENT EMBRYOLOGIST.
9 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, pictorial map of Cape Cod to endpapers, i-ix, 284 pp, illustrations. Very good in custom archival mylar cover.
FRANK RATTRAY LILLIE (1870 – 1947) was an American zoologist and an early pioneer of the study of embryology. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Lillie moved to the United States in 1891 to study for a summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Lillie formed a lifelong association with the laboratory, eventually rising to become its director in 1908. His efforts developed the MBL into a full-time institution. Lillie was appointed an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in 1900. He was named Chairman of the Department of Zoology in 1910 and Dean of the Division of Biological Sciences in 1931. His research there was instrumental in the development of the field of embryology. He identified the influence of potassium on cell differentiation and elucidated the biological mechanisms behind free-martins. Lillie was instrumental in founding the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and served as its first president.
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- Bookseller
- Biomed Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1376
- Title
- The Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory
- Author
- Lillie, Frank R
- Format/Binding
- Cloth binding
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1944
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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I established BioMed Rare Books in 2015 as an internet-based bookshop specializing in rare and antiquarian books and papers in medicine and the life sciences. I have been collecting and studying printed works in these fields for many years, an activity that has enhanced and informed my practice of medicine and my own biological research.
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