The Neural Crest - its properties and derivatives in the light of experimental research by Horstadius, Sven - 1950

Oxford University Press, 1950. Illustrated with line drawings within the text (one of these has been, in part, very neatly hand-coloured), small octavo, pp x, 111, a neat owner's name on the title page and his stamp on the front endpaper, neat pencil note on the second blank page, the front hinge is cracked but sound, a slight crack also at page 1, otherwise very clean and sound internally, blue cloth in very good condition, in a frayed and splitting dustwrapper. The very scarce original printing. [Sven Hörstadius was a Swedish embryologist known for his work on sea urchin embryos and was, in this book here,responsible for an increased understanding of the neural crest. He studied under John Runnström at Stockholm University College and was awarded his Ph.D. in 1930. He was appointed professor of zoology at Uppsala University 1942, where he remained until his retirement in 1964, but continued to lecture as an emeritus. He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1946 and of the Royal Society in 1952.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Poor.