On the Source and Course of the Embryonic Blood Circulation during Development in the Warm-blooded Vertebralia

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William MacDonald was Professor of Civil History and Natural History, at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He had many interests including homeopathy, electrobiology and mesmerism. B. GARDINER (2003), The Linnean Vol. 19(1), notes that on one famous occasion, learning that one his students had opted to study medicine, he remarked to his father: ‘… tell your son to learn veterinary surgery as well as human, for there is many a cuif (blockhead)who would grudge him half-a-crown to mend his wife, but would readily give him a guinea to mend his horse’, and that MacDonald was ‘ on intimate terms with Charles Lyell, who personally invited him to attend the reading of the Darwin/Wallace papers on July 1st 1858’.

This work provided a review of the understanding of embryonic and foetal development.

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Bound in cloth. Ex-lib.(withdrawn from the Zoological Society of London): ink stamp to endpaper. Inscribed from the author to Dr [P.L.] Sclater, Secretary of the Zoological Society of London, 1860–1902.