[Studies in Crustacea]

Description:

A collection of eight papers on Crustacea by Professor Geoffrey Fryer FRS (1927-2024) a distinguished British biologist known for his work on the fishes of the Great Lakes of Africa and on the small Crustacea. Bound in 2 vols.

From Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh: The Feeding Mechanism of some Atyid Prawns of the Genus Caridina (1960); The Functional Morphology and Feeding Mechanisms of the Chydorid Cladoceran Eurycercus lamellatus (1963); Studies on the Functional Morphology and Feeding Mechanism of Monodella argentarii (1965);

From Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.: Evolution and Adaptive Radiation in the Chydoridae (1968); Evolution and Adaptive Radiation in the Macrothricidae (1974); Studies on the Functional Morphology and Ecology of the Atyid Prawns of Dominica (1977); Functional Ontogenetic Changes in Branchinecta ferox (1983); Studies on the Functional Morphology and Biology of the Notostraca (1988).

Condition

2 vols, 4to, recent buckram, leather title pieces to spines. Vg. From the library of Prof. J. Green (1928-2016) with his name to endpapers.