A Visit With G. B. S.

1947 LIMITED EDITION OF A MEMOIR OF THE MEETING OF LEADING AMERICAN SCIENTIST AND BIBLIOPHILE WITH GEORGE BERNARD SHAW--COPY OF PROMINENT DIPLOMAT ACTIVE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DURING WW2.

7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red title label to cover with gilt silhouette of Shaw, ivory paper-covered boards with red cloth spine, frontispiece sepia photograph of George Bernard Shaw, [iv], 18 pp, colophon; very good with no dust jacket as issued, in custom archival mylar cover.

HERBERT MCLEAN EVANS (1882 - 1971) was an anatomist and embryologist at Johns Hopkins University. He moved back to California in 1915 and was made professor of anatomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and held that position until his death. His medical research at Berkeley addressed problems relating to human nutrition, endocrinology, embryology, and histology. He isolated human growth hormone, which is essential for human growth and development, and human cadaveric-derived groth hormone was used to treat growth failure in children until 1985. At that time, some treated patients developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, an acquired form of prion disease. This led to the development of the first human recombinant hormone that gave birth to the biotechnology industry. Evans became director of the Institute of Experimental Biology at Berkeley, in 1931. Evans took a strong interest in the history of science and was an active collector of rare books in the field. His collection was later acquired by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. As stated in a Prefatory Note to the volume offered here, The following account of a visit with Bernard Shaw is based upon a diary kept by H. M. E. while on an air trip to Europe, December 7, 1946-January 13, 1947, primarily to attend the December Seance Solonnelle of the University of Paris. The memoir describes 90 year-old Shaw's interest in Evans' hormone research, despite the well-known lampooning of medicine and science in the playwright's works.

JAMES D. LeCRON (1885-1961) was the assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture, as well as the Administrator of the Surplus Marketing Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Publisher: University of California Press

Year: 1947

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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