2007, ISBN: 437394c273099b0edd57700105c34efc

Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester, 1987. 1st Ed. softcover. Near Fine. large oblong 8vo, light indentation lines on rear cover, fine art black and white photographs of the Post-indus… Altro …

Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester, 1987. 1st Ed. softcover. Near Fine. large oblong 8vo, light indentation lines on rear cover, fine art black and white photographs of the Post-industrial landscape in Britain, with Introduction by Michael Wood and essay by Rob Powell, illustrated with 37 b/w plates" . ISBN: 0-948797-10-X., Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester, 1987, 4, New York: Academic Press, 1947-1965. First editions (first and second printings). SEMINAL PAPERS BY LEADING POSTWAR GENETICISTS IN THE YEARS SURROUNDING THE DISCOVERY OF DNA STRUCTURE. 13 volumes 9 1/4 inchs tall, original green cloth binding, gilt titles to spine, library labels removed from spines, bookplate of Armed Forces Institute of Pathology on front paste-down of some volumes, library handstamp to top edge of some volumes, handstamp of Library of Congress to front free endpapers (canceled), library pocket and handstamps to rear paste-down, text pages clean and unmarked. Overall good+. PREFACE to Volume 1: As material for their research geneticists use higher and lower plants, higher and lower animals, and recently also viruses and bacteriophages. They study heredity in man. In their experiments they may use biophysical methods, they may investigate the chemical synthesis of organic compounds, they may study the components of living cells. A considerable part of genetic research deals with practical problems related to the breeding of plants and animals. As a consequence of these several aspects of research in genetics, the results of such research are published in a wide variety of journals, and summary reviews are scattered among a considerable number of review periodicals. This series of review articles. Advances in Genetics, has been started in order that critical summaries of outstanding genetic problems, written by competent geneticists, may appear in a single publication. The articles are expected to deal with both theoretical and practical problems, and to cover plant breeding, animal breeding, and human heredity, as well as the related fields of biophysics, biochemistry, physiology, and immunology. The aim is to have the articles written in such form that they will be useful as reference material for geneticists and also as a source of information to nongeneticists. M. Demerec. Cold Spring Harbor, New York. MILISLAV DEMEREC (1895 1966) was a Croatian-American geneticist, and the director of the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington, now Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1941 to 1960, recruiting Barbara McClintock and Alfred Hershey. He became a prominent Drosophila researcher and established the Drosophila Information Service newsletter in 1934 with Calvin Bridges. In the 1940s the direction of Demerec's research changed to the genetics of bacteria and their viruses after a symposium given by Max Delbrück. In 1946 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1947 became the founding editor of Advances in Genetics, the first journal to review the finding of modern genetics. ERNEST BROWN BABCOCK (1877 1954) was an United States plant geneticist who pioneered the understanding of plant evolution in terms of genetics. He is particularly known for seeking to understand by field investigations and extensive experiments, the entire polyploid apomictic genus Crepis, in which he recognize 196 species. In his career he published more than 100 articles and books explaining plant genetics, including the seminal textbook (with Roy Elwood Clausen) Genetics in relation to agriculture. JAY LAURENCE LUSH (1896 1982) was a pioneering animal geneticist who made important contributions to livestock breeding. He is sometimes known as the father of modern scientific animal breeding. Lush received National Medal of Science in 1968 and the Wolf Prize in 1979. Lush advocated breeding not based on subjective appearance of the animal, but on quantitative statistics and genetic information. Lush authored a classic book 'Animal Breeding Plans' in 1937 which greatly influenced animal breeding around the world. From 1930 to 1966, Lush was the Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture at Iowa State University. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1967. TRACY MORTON SONNEBORN (1905 1981) was an American biologist. His life's study was of the Paramecium. In the late 1950s he conducted an elegant series of experiments in his endeavors to discover what it is that mediates the synchronized movement of the paramecium's cilia. Sonneborn surgically removed a small section of cell wall and replaced it rotated by 180 degrees. The cilia in the replaced section continued to 'wave' in the same direction as they had before surgery, i.e. now in antiphase to the others. What was remarkable is that both daughters of paramecia on which this operation had been performed also showed the same trait of a reverse phase wave in a similar area of their cell wall, as did, to a lesser extent, the granddaughter cells. This clear evidence for non-Mendelian inheritance was largely overlooked by the scientific community. ERNST WOLFGANG CASPARI (1909 - 1988) was a German-American zoologist and geneticist. Caspari was the first researcher to use methods of developmental biology to analyze the action of a gene. By transplanting larval tissue between the wild type and a red-eyed mutant of the moth, Ephestia, he demonstrated that wild-type larvae produce a diffusible "substance" that is lacking in the mutant and is necessary for the development of eye pigmentation. Further characterization of the substance and an approach to isolate it were interrupted by the Nazi government: he escaped to Turkey and later to the United States but did not get a chance to further contribute to the rapid development in the field, which led to the "one-gene-one-enzyme" hypothesis. Caspari's results, published in 1933, represent the first step toward this hypothesis of gene action. ERNST WALTER MAYR (1904 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept. ERNEST R. SEARS (1910-1991) was a geneticist with the United States Department of Agriculture at the University of Missouri in Columbia, working on the origin, evolution, and cytogenetics of wheat for 55 years. Over the years Sears became one of the most respected names in wheat cytogenetics in the world. Probably his most important early achievement was to develop, over a 15-year period, a complete series of aneuploids--nullisomics, monosomics, trisomics and tetrasomics--for all 21 chromosomes of wheat. DAVID GUTHRIE CATCHESIDE (1907-1994) was one of the seminal figures in the post-war development of genetics, both in the United Kingdom and Australia. As a teacher and postgraduate supervisor he played a large part in launching the next generation of geneticists in both hemispheres. The implications of this integrationist view for university teaching were set out in a letter that he had published in Nature in 1963. NORMAN HAROLD HOROWITZ (1915 2005) was a geneticist at Caltech who achieved national fame as the scientist who devised experiments to determine whether life might exist on Mars. His experiments were carried out by the Viking Lander of 1976, the first U.S. mission to successfully land an unmanned probe on the surface of Mars. As a scientist, Horowitz is best known for his discovery and demonstration in 1944 that a metabolic pathway is a series of steps, each catalyzed by a single enzyme. His discovery helped to clinch the case for George Beadle and Edward Tatum's "one gene-one enzyme hypothesis" (a term Horowitz coined for their concept). Another important contribution of Horowitz was his 1945 proposal on the "backward evolution" of biosynthetic pathways. This proposal provided a framework for understanding the evolution of biosynthetic pathways and presaged the study of molecular evolution. EDWARD BUTTS LEWIS (1918 2004) was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. His Nobel Prizewinning studies with Drosophila, (including the discovery of the Drosophila Bithorax complex of homeotic genes, and elucidation of its function), founded the field of evolutionary developmental biology and laid the groundwork for our current understanding of the universal, evolutionarily conserved strategies controlling animal development. He is credited with development of the complementation test. His key publications in the fields of genetics, developmental biology, radiation and cancer are presented in the book Genes, Development and Cancer, which was released in 2004. ALAN ROBERT GEORGE OWEN (19192003) was a university lecturer in genetics (Cambridge, 1950-70) and mathematics (Fellow, Trinity College, 1962-70), but resigned those positions to emigrate to Canada in 1970. He wrote about 40 scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, statistics, genetics, and population theory, that were published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Heredity, Biometrics, Biometrika, Sanhkya, and Nature. In 1969 the Owens were invited to immigrate to Canada where Dr. Owen was to direct the parapsychology research of the Toronto-based New Horizons Research Foundation, a non-profit organization incorporated "to promote research on the frontiers of science and disseminate information." SALOME GLUECKSOHN-WAELSCH (1907 2007) was a German-born U.S. geneticist and co-founder of the field of developmental genetics studied chemistry and zoology in Königsberg and Berlin before she joined Spemann's laboratory at the University of Freiburg in 1928. In 1932 she received her doctorate for her work on the embryological limb development of aquatic salamanders. She went on to become a lecturer at Columbia University in 1936, bringing embryological acumen to Leslie C. Dunn's genetics laboratory, where she remained for 17 years. She left Columbia University in 1953 to commence a professorship in anatomy at the newly founded Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she held the chair of molecular genetics from 1963 to 1976. As Gluecksohn-Waelsch combined the embryological expertise she had acquired at Spemann´s lab with methods of classical mouse genetics, she is considered the founder of mammalian developmental genetics. ERNST HADORN (1902-1976) was a Swiss geneticist. In 1937, Hadorn applied for a Rockefeller fellowship and spent a year at Rochester University where he met Curt Stern and Drosophila Two years later, he accepted a position as Professor of Zoology at the University of Zurich, where he remained until he retired in 1972. He was a pioneer of developmental genetics who recognized the analytical power of genetic mosaics. In 1972, Hadorn organized an international conference at Boldern, a rural site just South of Zurich. Hadorn had a dream: he wanted to build a bridge and bring together developmental genetics and molecular biology. To this end, he selected and invited an illustrious group of some 15 molecular biologists plus an equal number of "Drosophilists" from all over the world, truly "the best and the brightest". And the names read like a list from the Hall of Fame: François Jacob, Gerald Edelman, Manfred Eigen, Francis Crick, Charles Weissmann, Max Birnstiel, Sol Spiegelman, Sydney Brenner, Boris Ephrussi, Peter Lawrence, Antonio Garcia-Bellido, Klaus Sander, John Gurdon, Conrad Waddington, Jean Brachet, Tuneo Yamada, and many others. MICHAEL JAMES DENHAM WHITE (1910 1983) was a zoologist and cytologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1961, and won the Linnaean Medal of the Linnaean Society of London in 1983. White made important contributions to the development of cytology and cytogenetics. His work was influential in the study of speciation in biology. WILLIAM FRANKLIN BLAIR (19121985) developed an international reputation in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology and conducted major research projects on subjects such as the genus Bufo and its parallels in the faunas of desert regions in North and South America. EDMUND BRISCO FORD (1901 1988) was a British ecological geneticist. He was a leader among those British biologists who investigated the role of natural selection in nature. He went on to study the genetics of natural populations, and invented the field of ecological genetics. Ford was awarded the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1954. ALFRED DAY HEERSHEY (1908 1997) was an American Nobel Prizewinning bacteriologist and geneticist. He began performing experiments with bacteriophages with Italian-American Salvador Luria and German Max Delbrück in 1940, and observed that when two different strains of bacteriophage have infected the same bacteria, the two viruses may exchange genetic information. He moved with his assistant Martha to Cold Spring Harbor, New York, in 1950 to join the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Genetics, where he performed the famous Hershey-Chase experiment with Martha Chase in 1952. This experiment provided additional evidence that DNA, not protein, was the genetic material of life. He became director of the Carnegie Institution in 1962 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, shared with Salvador Luria and Max Delbrück for their discovery on the replication of viruses and their genetic structure. HIRAM BENTLEY GLASS (1906 2005) was an American geneticist and noted columnist. His first major academic appointment was at Johns Hopkins University, at which time he was also a regular columnist for the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper. Like his doctoral mentor H. J. Muller, Bentley Glass was deeply concerned about eugenics. In response to the destructive racist views of Charles Davenport and others, Glass wrote "Geneticists Embattled: Their Stand Against Rampant Eugenics and Racism in America During the 1920s and 1930s". PHILIP LEVINE (1900 1987) was an imuno-hematologist whose clinical research advanced knowledge on the Rhesus factor, Hemolytic disease of the newborn and blood transfusion. About 1925 Levine became assistant to Karl Landsteiner at the Rockefeller Institute, New York. In 1935, he worked as a bacteriologist and serologist at Newark Beth Israel Hospital, New Jersey where, in 1939, Levine and Rufus E. Stetson published their findings about a family who had a stillborn baby in 1937 who had died of hemolytic disease of the newborn. This publication included the first suggestion that a mother could make blood group antibodies owing to immune sensitization to her fetus's red blood cells. ALAN ROBERTSON (1920 1989) was an English population geneticist. Originally a chemist, he was recruited after the Second World War to work on animal genetics on behalf of the British government, and continued in this sphere until his retirement in 1985. He was a major influence in the widespread adoption of artificial insemination of cattle. In addition to his work on agricultural genetics, Robertson under, Academic Press, 1947-1965, 0, France: L'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, 1806. (71 -134) pages; extracted from the Memoires de l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts; French text. Set out in six 'memoires'; with a folding plate; Rumford's researches regarding experiments in heat. Sir Benjamin, Count Rumford in the nobility of the Holy Roman empire, Thompson (1753 - 1814) American-born & educated British royalist, natural philosopher and philanthropist who left during the Revolution and who "...Once in Britain Thompson presented himself as an expert on America rather than as a refugee and became the main contact between American loyalists in England and the British government....Like Davy's, Faraday's, and Tyndall's, Rumford's is a story of the social mobility which science could bring: the farm boy and shop assistant became the Massachusetts Yankee at the courts of Europe. He spoke well German, French, Spanish, and Italian; he played billiards, against himself, and enjoyed chess; he was a good draughtsman; indifferent to literature, sculpture, and painting he had a great taste for landscape gardening. His daughter, Countess Rumford, returned to America and died in 1852. In his eloge at the Institut de France on 9 January 1815 Georges Cuvier emphasized the revolutions, warfare, and conflicting loyalties which had dominated Rumford's life, and was mildly embarrassed by his pursuit of honours and wealth. He stressed the value of Rumford's practical inventions, with their scientific basis. Later, to Tyndall lecturing at the Royal Institution in 1883, Rumford's researches on the nature of heat put him firmly in the tradition leading to James Joule, conservation of energy, and modern thermodynamics....Brown (author of the biography of Rumford) places his researches on heat in their context, where the implications Tyndall saw were not perceived by Rumford or his contemporaries, and where the diversity and utility of his discoveries, based on research rather than empiricism, were most impressive. He has an important place in the origins of applied science." (David Knight in the ODNB) Title page with the small name-stamp of collector George R. Brush; M.D. in the U.S. Navy; a surgeon & medical inspector, from 1861-1894. Approx. 8 1/2" x 11" size; bound in the original plain brown paper wrappers, with the handwritten name 'Rumford.' A little wear and dustiness to the cover, some spotting and foxing within; in very good condition.. Extracted from Original Volume. Soft Cover. Very Good., L'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, 1806, 3, [London,: Engraved by George Cooke, London Published ... by W.B. Cooke 12 York Place Pentonville,, March 31, 1814].. 112 by 190mm (4.5 by 7.5 inches).. Prints,""Drawn on the Thames. Printing on ice Etching; imprint excised. The last Frost Fair took place between Blackfriars Bridge and London Bridge for four days at the beginning of February 1814. There was feasting, drinking, and activities such as nine-pin bowling, dancing, and swings. One of the highlights included an elephant being led across the river! On February the 5th, the fair ended when the ice began to break up, tragically resulting in several deaths. Since then, on account of the milder climate, the replacement of the Old London Bridge with a new one with wider arches, and the incremental embankment of the river, the Thames has not frozen over so completely as to allow another fair to take place upon it. During the fair, London's printmakers took advantage of the widespread enthusiasm and excitement it generated by producing souvenir prints to commemorate the spectacular event. In fact, during the fair of 1814, between eight to ten printers actually set up their presses on the ice, printing images and poems for punters there and then. One of these enterprising printmakers was George Davis, who published a short book, 'Frostiana; or A History of the River Thames In a Frozen State', which was actually printed on the frozen Thames. Clennell's print is a snapshot taken from life. Drawn on the ice, which is beginning to melt, it shows a printing press being worked, with St. Paul's Cathedral and Blackfriars Bridge in the background. The citizens of London are slipping about, swinging, buying and selling their wares, including the ice itself, which is being cut up, wrapped and tied in striped cloth to be taken home. Best known as a coastal and landscape painter, Luke Clennell (1781-1840), was apprenticed to Thomas Bewick in 1797, and became a talented wood-engraver. """"After completion of most ambitious work, 'Banquet of the Allied Sovereigns in the Guildhall', became insane in 1819 and from 1831 was permanently in an asylum"""" (British Museum). The River Thames has been known to freeze over on several occasions, especially during the """"Little Ice Age"""" of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, upon which the inhabitants of London took to the solid ice for business and pleasure. The most important of these """"Frost Fairs"""" occurred in 695, 1608, 1683-4, 1716, 1739–40, 1789, and 1814. In 1684, during the Great Freeze of 1683-4, which was the longest in London's history and during which the ice reached depths of around 28cm, the diarist John Evelyn recorded the attractions of the Frost Fair: """"Streetes of Boothes were set upon the Thames... all sorts of Trades and shops furnished, & full of Commodities... Coaches plied from Westminster to the Temple, and from several other stairs too and fro, as in the streets, sleds, sliding with skates, bull-baiting, horse and coach races, puppet plays and interludes, cooks, tippling and other lewd places, so that it seemed to be a bacchanalian triumph, or a carnival on water"""". 1880,1113.1763, Engraved by George Cooke, London Published ... by W.B. Cooke 12 York Place Pentonville, 0, London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A nice first edition of William Gilpin's charming topographical work on the West of England, illustrated with beautiful aquatint plates. The first edition of this work. A charming travel work that focuses on the topography of the West of England, and the beauties of the scenery in that area of the country. A nice look at England at the turn of the century. Illustrated with eighteen aquatint plates. William Gilpin was an artist and priest. He was one of the first people to define the term 'picturesque', due to his knowledge and love of landscape paintings. He also wrote a great deal during his life, including biographies of Bernard Gilpin, Hugh Latimer, John Wiclif, and Thomas Cramner. Collated, complete. With one page of publisher's adverts to the rear. Bookplate to the front pastedown, 'F. C. Lukis'. Bookplate to the verso to the front endpaper, 'L. I. Coomer'. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper, 'Marg. Lukis 1804'. Prior owner's ink inscription to the head of the title page, 'M. Lukis'. This is possibly Frederick Corbin Lukis, a Channel Islands archaeologist and antiquarian. In a full calf binding, rebound with the original boards restored. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the extremities. Some minor marks to the boards. Light surface cracks to the spine label. Bookplate to the front pastedown, and to the verso to the front endpaper. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with the odd spot. Prior owner's ink inscription to the head of the title page. Very Good, T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798, 3<

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Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 11.62], [PU: T Cadell and W Davies, London], STONEHENGE WILTON GLASTONBURY WINCHESTER SOMERSET WILTSHIRE, The first edition of this charming work on th… Altro …

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 11.62], [PU: T Cadell and W Davies, London], STONEHENGE WILTON GLASTONBURY WINCHESTER SOMERSET WILTSHIRE, The first edition of this charming work on the West of England by William Gilpin. Illustrated, with eighteen tinted plates of various locations in the Western parts of England. A fascinating work, which discusses well-known location such as Winchester, Guildford, Salisbury, Stonehenge, Wilton, Wells, Glastonbury, Longleat and more. This work travels from as far east as Hampshire and discusses locations to the far west such as Plymouth. William Gilpin was an English artist, Anglican cleric, Schoolmaster and author. Gilpin coined the phrase and idea of picturesque in his popular 'Essay on Prints'. Collated, complete with eighteen plates, and publisher's adverts to the rear. In a full calf binding. Externally, generally smart. Patches of heavy rubbing to the spine and joints. Light rubbing to the boards. Front hinge is strained but firm. Binder's stamp to the front pastedown, Samuel Mepham. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright. Scattered spotting, mostly to the page edges. Very Good<