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An Introduction to the Study of the Oestrous Cycle in the Dog -- [Bound with:] Ovogenesis and the Normal Follicular Cycle in Adult Mammalia
Published by University of California Press, 1931
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good-. Deaccessioned from a Harvard University library, with the only library "mark" being the bookplate on the inside front cover; this volume contains two monographs bound together, being Memoirs of the University of California, Volume 9, Numbers 2 and 3; the worn spine label indicates that it is also part of Reprints, Dept. of Anatomy and Institute of Experimental Biology, University of California, volume XV; blue cloth binding has much soil and wear; plate captions at back have narrow vertical stain in fore-edge margin; text clean. Paginated vii, [65]-118, plates 12-18 and 3 figures in text -- [119]-222, plates 19-36 and 16 figures in text. Large, heavy volume. [otob: 5L].
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The Chromosomes in Man: Sex and Somatic
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1929
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Paperback. First Edition, First printing. VERY GOOD. QUITE LARGE SOFTCOVER. LIGHT WEAR TO SPINE ENDS, COVERS SLIGHTLY DARKENED, INTERIOR CLEAN AND TIGHT. OWNER NAMEUncommon original edition, NOT ex-library.
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The chromosomes in man: Sex and somatic
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1929
Seller: Jeremy Norman's historyofscience, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
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Evans, Herbert McLean (1882-1971) & Olive Swezy (b. 1878). The chromosomes in man: Sex and somatic. [6], 41pp. 11 plates; text illustrations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1929. 327 x 252 mm. Library buckram, a bit soiled, library shelfmark on spine, library card pocket removed from inside back cover. Good to very good. Library stamps on endpapers. First Edition. Evans, best known for discovering vitamin E and human growth hormone, collaborated with zoologist Olive Swezy in research on human chromosomes in the 1920s, a time when the exact number of chromosomes per cell was still unknown. "For this study Evans personally obtained exceptionally well-preserved material by attending, at San Quentin prison, executions of criminals whose bodies were not to be claimed by relatives. Swezy did most of the counting, from thin serial sections . . . The count of 48 chromosomes in each cell, published by Evans and Swezy, was unfortunately incorrect; it is now certain that 46 is the correct number. In 1969, to a gathering of scientific friends, Evans explained that semidetached portions of two chromosomes had been counted as separate units" (Corner, p. 171). Corner, "Herbert McLean Evans," Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 45 (1974), pp. 157-187. Norman 744. .
