A Stereoscopic Atlas of the Chick

1937 RARE COMPLETE SET OF OVER 100 PHOTOGRAPHIC STEREOSCOPE CARDS ILLUSTRATING EMBRYOLOGY OF THE CHICK, WITH OPTICAL VIEWER.

Printed card with Table of Contents and 113 photographic stereoscope cards (printed card, plate cards 1-109, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, plate cards 110-113, 4 x 6 inches, in original blue paper-covered box with gilt title to side, folding stereoscopic viewer with steel frame and glass lenses, printed illustrated instructions for use. Also enclosed is a sample copy of one of a set of 10 photographs of dissections of the 15-day rat embryo. Surface wear to box, but intact without repairs; complete and very good.

JOSEPH ABRAHAM LONG (1879-1953) had a remarkably long association with the University of California: forty-five years. He joined the faculty in Zoology as an Instructor in 1908, immediately after the completion of his doctor's degree at Harvard University. Long's major teaching effort was in embryology; he organized and developed courses in general vertebrate and advanced mammalian morphogenesis. His widely known atlases of chick and rat development, co-authored with his associate, Dr. Paul L. Burlingame, represent a major contribution to instruction in developmental anatomy. These labelled stereoscopic photographs of beautifully prepared specimens--whole mounts, India-ink-injected embryos, and microscopic dissections--greatly facilitate the students' understanding of structural relationships in the vertebrate embryo by providing striking and illuminating three-dimensional views of the unfolding, ever changing morphogenic patterns. Professor Long was a master technician, skilled in the preparation of biological material for microscopic study. A few examples of Long's inventiveness may be cited: a unique method for dissecting embryos by means of electrically operated knives made from slivers of razor blades, and by needles held and delicately controlled by a system of levers; a complete photographic assembly (inclined camera, illuminator, specimen holder, etc.) for making stereoscopic photomicrographs of dissected embryos; and a remarkably complex organ-culture apparatus with mechanical heart, reservoirs, filters, and aerators. The investigations with Professor Evans on the estrous cycle of the rat are classic, and culminated in 1922 in a volume in the University of California Memoirs. This monograph has been basic to many researches throughout the world in embryology, histology, endocrinology, and reproductive physiology. The Long-Evans strain of rats, now used in many laboratories, is another legacy--a living one--of that fruitful collaboration.

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Publisher: California Laboratory Supply Co.

Year: 1937

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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