On the Genus Actinometra Mull., with a Morphological Account of a New Species (A.) Polymorpha from the Philippine Islands. Part 1. (Linnean Society, 1883)

CARPENTER, P. Herbert

Verlag: Taylor and Francis, London, 1883

Beschreibung

Disbound. Extracted from Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Paper read June 21st, 1877. Large 4to ( 290 by 220 mm). Pp. 122 (including Description of the Plates, Bibliographical references, and List of Works referred to), 8 Plates (1 col. 7 tinted). Lithographed by C. Berjeau, and Printed by Banks & Co., Edin. Faint purple oval library stamp to blank top edge of pages 1, 53 &107. Light toning to page edges and blank edges of plates, otherwise in very good clean bright condition. Scarce. Copac locates only three copies (British Library, Horniman Library & Natural History Museum). ** Carpenter, Philip Herbert (1852-1891), palaeontologist and zoologist. In his seventeenth year he accompanied his father in the Lightning on a dredging and sounding cruise to the Faeroes; this was followed by two voyages in the Porcupine in 1869 and 1870, where he acted as a scientific assistant. In 1875 Carpenter made a voyage in the Valorous to Disko Bay for scientific purposes, after which he went to Würzburg in1876 and worked under Professor Semper who placed under his disposal all his specimens of Act. polymorpha, which he himself had collected in the Philippine Islands. While there, as a result of a controversy which had arisen from his father's investigations into the structure of crinoids, he made his own study of the group, and soon became one of the leading authorities in the field. In 1877 Carpenter was appointed an assistant master at Eton College in charge of biological teaching. Nevertheless, he managed to continue his own researches, and he eventually published about fifty papers, principally on echinoderms and crinoid morphology. Carpenter was elected FLS in 1886, FRS on 4 June 1885, and in 1883 was awarded by the Geological Society part of the Lyell fund. (ODNB). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002483

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Titel: On the Genus Actinometra Mull., with a ...

Verlag: Taylor and Francis, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1883

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Zustand: Very Good