Five Monographs Bound Together, with an Autographed Letter Signed (1875).

KOWALEVSKI [KOWALEVSKY] [KOVALEVSKY], Alexander

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4to. Contemporary 1/4-leather and marbled boards. Spine with raised bands and gilt decoration. Top & bottom of spine chipped. Very Good. 1. Nabliudenia nad razvitiem Brachiopoda [in Russian] (Observations on the Development of Brachiopoda). Moscow: 1874. 40 pp; 5 plates. Inscribed by Kowalevski: "Monsieur A. F. Marion homage de l'auteur." 2. Nabliudenia nad razvitiem Coelenterata [in Russian] (Observations on the Development of Coelenterata). Moscow: 1873. 36 pp; 8 plates. Upper half of plate IV has been cut off. Pencil drawings on verso of plate I. 3. Beiträge zur Anatomie und Entwickelungsgeschichte des Loxosoma Neapolitanum Sp. N. Memoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, VIIe Série, Tome X, No. 2, 1866. 10 pp; 1 plate. With Signature of A. F. Marion. 4. Anatomie des Balanoglossus delle Chiaje. Memoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, VIIe Série, Tome X, No. 3, 1866. 18 pp; 3 plates. With Signature of A. F. Marion. 5. Embryologische Studien an Würmern und Arthropoden. Memoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, VIIe Série, Tome XVI, No. 12, 1871. 70 pp; 12 plates. "Kowalevski (1871) published the first figure of chromosomes that really resembles the object. One can tell instantly on looking at his drawing that he saw an anaphase (see fig. 6) [= plate IV, fig. 24 in original]" (Baker, The Cell-Theory: A Restatement, History, and Critique, Pt. V, pp. 461-462). 6. Autograph Letter, Signed (Odessa, 24 August 1875) from Kowalevsky to Marion about balanoglossus. Bound in after title page of no. 4 above. Kowalevsky, "a Russian investigator, [made] the observations that were most instrumental--partly because of their own inherent worth and brilliance, partly because of the fortunate time at which they were published--in effecting the bond between embryology and anatomy, and between the study of ontogeny and phylogeny. Alexander Kowalevski, in the years 1867-71, found that all the invertebrate embryos he studied . . . were formed of the same primary layers as the vertebrate embryos, and, furthermore, that in all of them alike the layers arise in the same fashion, the inner layer being produced from the outer by a process of invagination. . . . The researches of Kowalevski bore immediate fruit. . . . The publication of Kowalevski's observations on the universality of the germ-layers and on their comparable origin in a multitude of forms made it possible to consider the evolution of the individual and the evolution of the race in the same light" (Oppenheimer, Essays in the History of Embryology, pp. 264-66). Kowalevsky and A. F. Marion collaborated on a monograph published in 1883. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 8497

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