Biology and Its Makers: With Portraits and Other IllustrationsLocy, William A. (William Albert)
History
Biology and Its Makers: With Portraits and Other Illustrations
Locy, William A. (William Albert)
Biology -- History
The best brief account of the Rise of Physiology in Verworn's General
Physiology, 1899. More recent German editions of the same work.
Historical outline in Rutherford's Text-Book of Physiology, 1880.
Galen's Physiology: Verworn. Harvey: See references under Chapter
III; The analysis of his writings by Willis in The Works of Harvey,
translated into English, Sydenham Soc., 1847; See also Dr. Moreton's
facsimile reproduction of the first edition (1628) of De Motu Cordis
et Sanguinis, 1894. Haller: Fine portrait in his Elementa Physiologiæ,
1758; English translations of the Elementa. Charles Bell: Pettigrew;
Good summary in Foster's Life of Claude Bernard, p. 38 et seq. Johannes
Müller: His life, complete list of works, etc., in Gedächtnissrede
auf Johannes Müller by Du Bois-Reymond, 1860; _Eloge_ by Virchow in
_Edinburgh Med. Journ._, vol. 4; Picture of his monument in Coblenz,
_Archiv f. Mik. Anat._, vol. 55; Briefe von J. Müller and Anders
Retzius (1830-1857), 1900; His famous Handbuch der Physiologie and
English translations should be inspected. Ludwig: Burdon-Sanderson,
Ludwig and Modern Physiology, _Sci. Progress_, vol. V, 1896; The same
article in _Ann. Rept. Smithson. Inst._, 1896. Claude Bernard: Life by
M. Foster, 1899, excellent.
CHAPTER X
Good general account of the Rise of Embryology in Koelliker's
Embryologie, 1880; Minot, Embryology and Medical Progress, _Pop. Sci.
Mo._, vol. 69, 1906; Eycleshymer, A Sketch of the Past and Future of
Embryology, _St. Louis Med. Rev._, 1904. Harvey: As Embryologist,
Brooks in _J. Hop. Univ. Hospit. Bull._, vol. VIII, 1897. See above,
Chaps. III and IX for further references to Harvey. Malpighi: in
Embryology, Locy in _Pop. Sci. Mo._, 1905--portrait and selected
sketches from his embryological treatises. Wolff: Wheeler, Wolff and
the Theoria Generationis, in Woods Holl Biological Lectures, 1898;
Kirchoff in _Jenaische Zeitschr._, vol. 4, 1868; Waldeyer, Festrede in
Sitzbr. d. K. Preus. Akad. d. Wissenschaft., 1904; Haeckel in Evolution
of Man, vol. I, 1892. Bonnet and Pre-delineation: Whitman, Bonnet's
Theory of Evolution, also Evolution and Epigenesis, both in Woods
Holl Biological Lectures, 1895. Von Baer: Leben und Schriften, his
autobiography (1864), 2d edition, 1886; Life by Steida, 1886; Obituary,
_Proc. Roy. Soc._, 1878; Waldeyer in _Allg. Wien. Med. Ztg._, 1877;
_Nature_, vol. 15; Life by Stölzle, 1897; Haeckel, _loc. cit._, vol.
I; Locy, V. Baer and the Rise of Embryology, _Pop. Sci. Mo._, 1905;
Fine portrait as young man in _Harper's Mag_. for 1899; _Rev. Scient._,
1879. Kowalevsky: Lankester in _Nature_, vol. 66, 1902; Portrait and
biog. in _Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Marseille_, vol. 8, 1903. Balfour: M.
Foster in _Nature_, vol. 29, 1882; Also Life with portrait in the
Memorial Edition of Balfour's Works; Waldeyer in _Arch. f. Mik. Anat._,
vol. 21, 1882; Osborn Recollections, with portrait, _Science_, vol.
2, 1883. His: Mall in _Am. Journ. Anat._, vol. 4, 1905; Biography in
_Anat. Anz._, vol.
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