Anatomy of the Indian Elephant (Studies in Comparative Anatomy, No. II)
- Publisher : MacMillan and Co.
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : 4 plates (1 folding)
Description:
First edition. Very scarce. This work includes 'a list of the principal memoirs on the anatomy of the elephant', 1710-1868, and provided new observations on elephant anatomy based on a young female elephant which had been purchased by the Council of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society in 1874.
Louis Compton Miall F.R.S. was Professor of Biology at the Yorkshire College and Curator of the Leeds Museum. His obituary notice published by the Royal Society states 'It was in the yard of the Medical School that Miall dissected the Indian elephant which chance gave into his hands. A shed was built over the animal, and there he worked through the cold winter of 1874-5, helped by F. Greenwood, Curator of the Medical School.'
Condition
8vo, orig. cloth, rubbed, lightly soiled. Front free endpaper removed. Good. From the library of Prof. Alexander James Edward Cave, (1900-2001), British anatomist, with his name pencilled to half-title, and with his occasional marginal pencil annotations. Cave was Professor of Anatomy, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, 1946-1967 and President of the Linnean Society 1970-1973.
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