Dendy Arthur Editor (2 results)
Published by George G. Harrap, London, 1922
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- First Edition
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Add to basketOriginal Cloth. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Edition. 237 pages. With illustrations. Slight foxing to first and last few pages and edges. Slight wear & slight soiling to spine, covers & corners. With library stamps & labels.; Ex-Library; Octavo (standard book size).
Published by London: Constable and Company Ltd. 1919., 1919
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo (224mm.) Pp. [9] ix [1], [2] 3 - 227 [1]. With a half title. Occasional text diagrams and illustrations. Contents clean. Publisher's brown cloth backed boards. This assemblage of IX papers given at nine public lectures delivered at King's College, London in the Spring tem of… the Session 1917-18 under the auspices of the Imperial Studies Committee of the University of London include the following - Man's account with the lower animals, by E. Dendy; Some educational and moral aspects of zoology, by G.C. Bourne; Museums and research, by C. Tate Regan; Man and the web of life, by J.A. Thomson; The origin of man, by F.W. Jones; Some inhabitants of man and their migrations, by R.T. Leiper; The future of the science of breeding, by R.C. Punnett; Our food from the sea, by W.A. Herdman; Tsetse-flies and colonisation, by R. Newstead; Index.Overall, a near fine copy. Arthur Dendy (1865-1925), zoologist, was born on 20 January 1865 at Patricroft, Manchester. He graduated in 1885 with an honours degree in zoology from Owens College, Victoria University, Manchester (M.Sc., 1887; D.Sc., 1891). He moved to Australia in 1888, on the recommendation of Professor Baldwin Spencer, he was appointed demonstrator and assistant lecturer in biology at the University of Melbourne. He did much pioneering work on the identification of sponges, and was was the first scientist to carry out systematic research on the cryptic terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Victoria. The term cryptozoa was coined by him to describe the light-abhorring animals found under logs or stones in damp, dark situations. In 1893 Dendy was appointed professor of biology at Canterbury College, University of New Zealand, in 1903 professor of biology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and in 1905 professor of zoology at King's College, London. For more details of Dendy see the Australian Dictionary of Biography where many of these details are vailable.
