Gray Sir James B 1891 (1 results)

8vo. Various paginations. Some with illustrations. Numerous printed wrappers bound in. Bound together in black cloth, gilt spine; covers stained, rubbed. One SIGNED by the author. Many with the ownership signature of Sir James Gray. Very good. This group of papers was collected by Sir James Gray, cytologist at King's College. Includes an early paper by William Bateson (1893); Avend Hagedoorn's "thoughtful essay" (Olby), "Autokatalytical substances; the determinants for the inheritable characters, a biomechanical theory of inheritance and evolution;" essays by the Nobel laureate Andre Lwoff; and other important contributors such as Leonard Doncaster, Leslie Dunn, E. M. East and Lucien Cuenot. PROVENANCE: Collected by Sir James Gray (b. 1891), whose name appears on the cover of a number of items. Sir James Gray was a cytologist at King's College, who specialized in the work of cyto-chemistry, which is rooted in the study of fixed and stained preparations. He wrote A textbook of experimental cytology, 1931. …