A Collection of 19 Papers on World Diatoms 1859-1895

Description:

Text English, Italian and German. A 19th-century sammelband containing 19 papers on the world diatoms, extracted from various international journals and bound together in a single volume, 1859–1895.

Provenance: From the library of the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS), with their institutional ink stamps. Bound for the Society in original cloth (now somewhat worn), with the gilt spine title: Botanical Papers VI, Diatoms.

An exceptional specialist volume capturing the "Golden Age of Microscopy". The collection includes papers by international pioneers in the study of diatoms, including Per Teodor Cleve (1840-1905) the father of modern diatom taxonomy, Albert Grunow (1826-1914) and Francesco Castracane (1817-1899), alongside landmark physiological contributions by Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann (1843-1909) and Robert Lauterborn (1869-1952). Highlights include:

Global Biogeography & Expeditionary Science: Includes early papers charting micro-flora across extreme environments, including P.T. Cleve’s scarce dual works on diatoms from the Arctic Sea and the Sea of Java (1873), Astrid Cleve’s Swedish Lapland survey (1895), and L.W. Bailey’s early South American study on the Para River (1861).

Early Marine Ecology & Food Web Analysis: Includes Castracane’s seminal 1875 Mediterranean study utilizing the stomach contents of a pelagic tunicateSalpa pinnata to identify marine diatoms, alongside De-Toni’s 1888 analysis of Adriatic stingray digestive tracts.

Cytological & Mechanical Milestones: Contains Lauterborn’s paper on diatom cell and nuclear division (Ueber Bau und Kerntheilung..., 1893) and Engelmann’s treatise on the mechanics of protoplasmic movement and light stimuli (Ueber die Bewegungen..., 1880).

The Physics of Microscopy: Features Sullivant & Wormley’s important 1859 American Journal of Sciences paper, which used the microscopic striae of diatom frustules to benchmark and test the absolute resolving limits of 19th-century optical lenses.

Local & Environmental Surveys: Includes regional papers spanning the UK (Kitton's Norfolk, Comber's Liverpool, Norman's Hull), Central Europe (Schumann's Tatra Mountains, Grunow's 158-page Austrian catalogue), and early environmental microscopy, such as Dr. Bossey’s 1879 paper utilizing Thames mud for sanitary and pollution analysis.

The full listing of papers as follows: F. Castracane: Istruzioni per chi voglia raccogliere Diatomee (1873), 44pp; Contribuzione alla florula delle Diatomee del Mediterraneo ossia esame del contenuto nello stomaco di una salpa pinnata pescata a Messina (1875), 35pp, 1 folding plate, Atti dell’Accademia Pontificia de’Nuovi Lincei; F. Kitton: Fauna and Flora of Norfolk Diatomacae (1884), 16pp, Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ SocietyR. Accademia Medica di Roma; Dr Bossey, Thames mud in relation to sanitary science (1879), 2pp, 1 folding table, Proceedings of the Holmsdale Natural History Club; T. Comber: On the Diatomaceae of the neighbourhood of Liverpool (1859), 12pp, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. XI; P.T. Cleeve: On diatoms from the Arctic Sea (1873), 28, 4 plates; Examination of Diatoms found on the surface of the Sea of Java (1873), 13pp, 3 plates, Bihang till K. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handlingar Bd 1; A. Cleeve, On recent freshwater diatoms from Lule Lappmark in Sweden (1895), 44pp, 1 map, 1 plate, Bihang till K. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handlingar Bd 21; J. Schumann, Die Diatomeen der hohen Tatra (1867), 102, 4 plates, K.K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien; T.W. Engelmann, Ueber die Bewegungen der Oscillarien und Diatomeen (1880), 10pp, Onderz. Phys. Lab. Utrecht Deel V; R. Lauterborn: Ueber Bau und Kerntheilung der Diatomeen (1893), 26pp, 1 plate, Verhandlungen des Naturhist. Med. Vereins N.F. Bd V; G.B. De-Toni, Intorno ad alcune Diatomee rinvenute nel tubo intestinale di una Trygon violacea pescata nell’Adriatico (1888), 5pp, Atti del R. Istituto Veneto di scienze Tomo VI; B.W. Thomas & H.H. Chase: Diatomaceae of Lake Michigan (1886), 3pp, Presented to the State Microscopical Society of Illinois 1886; L.W. Bailey: Notes on new species of microscopical organisms from the Para River, South America (1861), 23pp, 2 plates, Boston Journal of Natural History Vol. VII; G. Norman: List of Diatomaceae occurring in the neighbourhood of Hull, 1st ed. (1859), 23pp; 2nd ed. (1865), 32pp; A. Grunow, Die österreichischen Diatomaceen nebst Anschluss einiger neuen Arten von andern Lokalitäten (1862), 158pp, 6 plates, Verhandlungen der k.k. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien Bd XII; W.S. Sullivant & T.G. Wormley: On the measurement of the striae of Diatoms (1859), 4pp, American Journal of Sciences and Arts.

Condition

8vo, cloth, worn, short split to top of rear joint and bottom of front joint, hinges cracked/strained, Some orig. wrappers retained. Ink stamps of the Royal Microscopical Society.