Peripheral Nervous System. Collection of 13 offprints, pamphlets etc. from the library of Fred Mettler and Marcus Jacobson.

Publisher Information: 1876-1903.

Peripheral Vertebrate Nervous System. Bound collection of 15 offprints / extracts in English, Italian and German, as listed below. 1876-1903. 295 x 236 mm. Library buckram; spine title reads “Peripheral Vert. Nerv. System.” Minor toning and dust-soiling, a few edges frayed but very good. From the libraries of Fred A. Mettler (name tooled on spine) and Marcus Jacobson (bookplate).

From the libraries of two medical writers: Fred Mettler was editor of History of Medicine: A Correlative Text Arranged According to Subjects (1947; Garrison-Morton.com 6440), and Marcus Jacobson (1930-2002) was the author of several books on neuroscience.

Contains the following papers: 1. Balfour, Francis M. (1851-82). On the development of the spinal nerves in elasmobranch fishes. Extract from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 166 (1876): 175-195. 3 plates.

2. Ceci, Antonio (1852-1920). Contribuzione allo studio della fibra nervosa midollata ed osservazioni sui corpusculi amilacei dell’encefalo e midollo spinale. Extract from Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Memorie della classe di scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali 9 (1880-81): 81-101. 2 plates.

3. Colasanti, Giuseppe (1846-1903). Sulla degenerazione dei nervi recisi. Extract from Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Memorie della classe di scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali 2 (1878): 156-162. Plate.

4. Cole, Frank J. (1872-1959). Observations on the structure and morphology of the cranial nerves and lateral sense organs of fishes; with special reference to the genus Gadus. Extract from Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd series, Zoology 7 (1898): 115-221. 3 plates.

5. Ewart, James C. (1851-1933). The lateral sense organs of elasmobranchs. I. The sensory canals of laemargus. Extract from Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 37 (1891): 59-85. 2 plates.

6. Ewart and J. C. Mitchell. On the lateral sense organs of elasmobranchs. II. The sensory canals of the common skate (Raia batis). Extract from Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 37 (1891): 87-105. Folding plate.

7. Ewart. Supplementary note on the cranial nerves of elasmobranchs. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, 1892. 3pp.

8. Ewart. The electric organ of the skate.—Observations on the structure, relations, progressive development, and growth, of the electric organ of the skate. Extract from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 183 (1892): 389-420. 5 plates.

9. Fübringer, Max (1846-1920). Ueber die spino-occipitalen Nerven der Selachier und Holocephalen und ihre vergleichende Morphologie. Offprint from Festschrift für Carl Gegenbaur (Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1896). [2], 541-580pp.

10. Herrick, Charles Judson (1868-1960). The peripheral nervous system of the bony fishes. Offprint from U. S. Fish Commission Bulletin for 1898 (1899). [2], 315-320pp. Original printed front wrapper. Signature of Oliver S. Strong on the front wrapper.

11. Herrick. Cranial nerves.—The doctrine of nerve components. Extract from Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences (1901): 312-326. Portion of first leaf cut away, but article is complete.

12. Paterson, A. M. Development of the sympathetic nervous system in mammals. Extract from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 181 (1890): 159-186. 9 plates.

13. Ruffini, Angelo (1864-1929). Di un nuovo organo nervoso terminale e sulla presenza dei corpuscoli Golgi-Mazzoni nel connettivo sottocutaneo dei polpastrelli delle dita dell’uomo. Extract from Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Memorie della Classe di scienze, fisiche, matematiche e naturali, ser. 4a, 7 (1893): 397-409. 2 plates.

14. Schaper, Alfred (1863-1905). Die nervösen Elemente der Selachier-Retina in Methylenblaupräparaten. Offprint from Festschrift zum siebenzigsten Geburtstag von Carl von Kupffer (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1899). 10pp. 3 plates, each with printed key.

15. Strong, Oliver S. [Review of] The Cranial nerves of Squalus acanthias. Extract from Science, n.s., 17 (1903): 254-255.

Book Id: 50307

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