42 FINE PLATES. Selections from Embryological Monographs I. Crustacea; II. Echinodermata; III. Acalephs and Polyps TOGETHER WITH Bibliography to Accompany I. Crustacea and Bibliography to Accompany III. Acalephs

Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 1882, 1883, 1884. First editions.
SCARCE ATLAS OF EMBRYOLOGY OF MARINE INVERTEBRATES BY ALEXANDER AGASSIZ AND COLLEAGUES--42 FINE LARGE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES WITH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT.
Three paperbound monographs 23x29 cm, printed paper wraps. I. Crustacea: title page, notice, 14 leaves of text, blank, 14 plates; II. Echinodermata: 44 pp, index, blank, 15 plates; III. Acalephs & Polyps: 52 pp, 13 plates. TOGETHER WITH two paperbound bibliographies "to accompany 'Selections from embryological monographs'", 15x24 cm, printed paper wraps: I. Crustacea by Walter Faxon, pp197-250; III. Acalephs, (truncated) pp 209-238. Covers browned with edge chips, some pages loose, texts and plates clean and bright. Very good minus n custom archival mylar covers.
ALEXANDER AGASSIZ (1835 – 1910), son of Louis Agassiz was an American scientist and engineer. Agassiz was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States with his father, Louis, in 1849. He graduated from Harvard University in 1855, and became a specialist in marine ichthyology. Agassiz was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1862. Up until the summer of 1866, Agassiz worked as an assistant in the museum of natural history that his father founded at Harvard, the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), of which he was first curator from 1874 to 1885 and then director until his death in 1910. Between 1877 and 1880 he took part in the three dredging expeditions of the steamer Blake of the Coast Survey, and presented a full account of them in two volumes (1888). In 1896 Agassiz visited Fiji and Queensland and inspected the Great Barrier Reef, publishing a paper on the subject in 1898.
WALTER FAXON 1848 – 1920) was an American ornithologist and crustaceologist. He received three degrees from Harvard University. He spent many years researching and classifying American crayfish, including the genera Astacus, Orconectes, and Procambarus, and contributed to at least 20 different scientific papers.
EDWARD LAURENS MARK (1847 – 1946) was an American zoologist, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Zoological Laboratory of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. In 1873 he traveled to Europe, becoming the first American to obtain a doctorate in the laboratory of Rudolf Leuckart; receiving his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Leipzig in 1876. Bringing the cytological and histological approach with him to Harvard University in 1877, he was responsible for the introduction of advanced European microscopic techniques. Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1885, he was one of the scientists and financial benefactors who founded The Bermuda Biological Station for Research in 1903. Continuing under the period of Mark's leadership, Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology became the major American centre for training research scholars in zoology; especially comparative embryology and later, comparative evolutionary embryology.
JESSE WALTER FEWKES (1850 – 1930) initially trained as a zoologist at Harvard University. He later turned to ethnological studies of the Native American tribes in the American Southwest. (Inventory #: 1636)