Descrizione

Paris, Édition du Bulletin Biologique de la France et de la Belgique, 1924. 8vo 171 pp.; 57 text figuress. Original printed wrappers. = A rare thesis by the French zoologist Emmanuel Fauré-Fremiet (1883-1971), containing descriptions and fine illustrations of new and seldom-seen species. Inscribed by the author, being a signed dedication to Prof. Kofoid, i.e., to the American zoologist Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865-1947) a leading expert on marine protozoans. Fauré-Fremiet "was a professor at the Sorbonne, and succeeded Henneguy as chair of comparative embryology at the Collège de France from 1928 to 1954. He published extensively on protozoology, especially the ciliates, on embryology, and experimental cell biology. At the Institut de Biologie Physicochimique (the Rothschild Institute), he developed diffraction X-Ray, and electron microscopy" (Wikipedia). Wrappers much frayed and chipped, with a few amateurish repairs; binding weak; otherwise very good.