Is Mutation a Factor in the Evolution of the Higher Vertebrates? An Address by C. Hart Merriam before the Section of Zoology AAAS. New Orleans Meeting, Dec. 29, 1905-Jan 4, 1906

Merriam, C. Hart

Published by Gibson Brothers, Printers, Washington, 1906

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Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1906. 55. 383-408; 26 pages; Contents complete in original pale green wrappers. Former owner's name stamped and signed in pencil at top of front wrapper - "H. M. Hall" with his scattered pencil annotations and notes on rear blank leaf. OCLC 1194145835 Offprint from Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol LV, 1906, pp. 383-408. PROVENANCE: Harvey Monroe Hall (1874 1932) was an American botanist particularly noted for his taxonomic work and studies in plant adaptation in the western United States. Studying plant taxonomy under W. L. Jepson at the University of California, Hall went on to be a professor of botany at the university and botanist for the agricultural experiment station. His early work focused on taxonomic studies of plants in California, and he added over 200,000specimens to the herbarium. Hall went to work for ecologist Frederic Clements at the Carnegie Institution Division of Plant Sciences at Stanford University in 1919 in an effort to explore experimental methods of taxonomy. The pair established methods for conducting reciprocal transplant experiments, whereas plants were moved and studied in the habitats of similar taxonomic species. These experiments provided methods for studying plant adaptation, but did not readily explain mechanisms of plant evolution. In 1924, Hall began to work with geneticist, and friend, E. B. Babcock to look beyond ecological methods to genetics and cytology as experimental methods to explore taxonomic and phylogenetic relationships. Hall left Clements group and started to assemble his own experimental team, hiring David Keck and William Hiesey in 1926 and Jens Clausen in 1931. ; Signed by Notable Personage, Related.

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• Title: Is Mutation a Factor in the Evolution of the Higher Vertebrates? An Address by C. Hart Merriam before the Section of Zoology AAAS. New Orleans Meeting, Dec. 29, 1905-Jan 4, 1906
• Publisher: Gibson Brothers, Printers, Washington
• Publication Date: 1906
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
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