Published by New Haven, etc.: Yale University Press, 1938., 1938
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First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. xii, 401, [1, list of Silliman Lectures] pp; 192 text figures. Original cloth. Bottom corner of the front cover and the first few leaves have a small bump, else Near Fine, in worn dust jacket (the front flap of the dust jacket is NOT price-clipped!) First Edition. Spemann's Silliman Lectures at Yale University in 1933. The lectures were first published in 1936 in German: Experimentelle Beiträge zu einer Theorie der Entwicklung. Deutsche Ausgabe der Silliman Lectures gehalten an der Yale University im Spätjahr 1933 (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1936). Hans Spemann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 "for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development". See Garrison-Morton 530 for Spemann and Hilde Mangold's 1924 paper on the "organizer" in embryological development.