Contributions From The Bermuda Biological Station For Research, Volumes I - VI -

Cambridge MA: Boston Society of Natural History. First edition.

COLLECTED PAPERS OF THE BERMUDA BIOLOGICAL STATION FROM ITS FOUNDING IN 1903 TO 1922, THE HEYDAY OF MARINE BIOLOGY IN AMERICA.

Six 10 inches tall hardcover volumes, blue-gray cloth binding with marine organism printed on covers, title to spines, each volume with title page, table of contents, and bound offprints including original printed wrappers. Inscribed on front paste down of each volume, "Rudolph F. Nunnemacher/ 19-Clark Uni-69." Vol. I, Nos. 1-10 (1904-1907), Vol. II, Nos. 11-24 (1907-1912), Vol. III, Nos. 25-51 (1912-1916), Vol. IV, Nos. 52-76 (1917), Vol. V, Nos. 77-111 (1918-1919), Vol. VI, Nos. 112-141 (1920-1922). Corners bumped, pages age-toned, water stains to bottom pages of Vols. II, IV and V, hinges cracked in Vol. III, overall very good. HEAVY SET WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.

The volumes contain 141 offprints including studies of anatomy, physiology, and behavior of marine life. 71 of the papers are authored by WILLIAM JOHN CROZIER (1892 -1955), an American physiologist who contributed to the field of psychology through his works on animal behavior and sensory processes. In 1918-1919, he was named assistant professor of physiology at the University of Illinois Medical School; in 1919 he was named assistant professor of zoology at the University of Chicago; in 1920-1925, he was named professor and head of the department of zoology at Rutgers University; and in 1925, he was named associate professor and head of the Department of General Physiology at Harvard University .In 1927, he became a professor at Harvard where he worked until he retired. He ran a General Physiology laboratory at the University of Harvard, which attracted many young researchers, the most notable being B.F. Skinner. Crozier spent his time studying the different types of tropisms, as well as the different factors that affected the behavior of tropisms. Crozier came up with the "parametric analysis" of behavior, which he believed to be his greatest contribution. Additional contributors include E. V. Cowdry, J. F. Fulton, E.L. Mark, and G. H. Parker.

EDMUND VINCENT COWDRY (1888 - 1975) After receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1913, Cowdry was appointed as an associate in anatomy at Johns Hopkins University. In 1921 Cowdry became an associate member at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York. The application of cytology to questions of physiology and pathology opened a chapter of Cowdry's career that was dedicated to the study of disease mechanisms at the level of the cell. His long career and prolific writings played a role in many fields of twentieth-century life sciences, including cytology, eugenics, bacteriology, and cancer research.

JOHN FARQUHAR FULTON (1899 – 1960) was an American neurophysiologist and historian of science. He received numerous degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He taught at Magdalen College School of Medicine at Oxford and later became the youngest Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale University. He studied at the University of Minnesota from 1917–18 and then transferred to Harvard University, receiving a B.S. in 1921. Starting in 1921, he studied neurophysiology at Magdalen College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a B.A. with first class honors in 1923. Then, as a Christopher Welch Scholar at Magdalen College, he received an M.A. and a D.Phil. in 1925. He then received an M.D. from Harvard in 1927. After his time at Harvard, he focused his studies on neurosurgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston under Harvey Cushing.

EDWARD LAURENS MARK (1847 - 1946] was an American zoologist, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Zoological Laboratory of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) at Harvard University. In 1873 he traveled to Europe, becoming the first American to obtain a doctorate in the laboratory of Rudolf Leuckart, receiving his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Leipzig in 1876. Bringing the cytological and histological approach with him to Harvard University in 1877, he was responsible for the introduction of advanced European microscopic techniques. He became assistant professor of zoology in 1883 and Hersey professor of anatomy in 1885, a position he held until his retirement in 1921. Continuing under the period of Mark's leadership, Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology became the major American center for training research scholars in zoology; especially comparative embryology and later, comparative evolutionary embryology.

GEORGE HOWARD PARKER (1864 –1955) was an American zoologist. He was a professor at Harvard, and investigated the anatomy and physiology of sense organs and animal reactions. He graduated from Harvard in 1887 with his undergraduate degree, later pursuing special courses there and at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin and Freiburg. He became assistant instructor in zoology at Harvard in 1888 and occupied different positions there, earning his Ph.D. in 1891 and becoming professor of zoology in 1906. He was Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and also of the American Philosophical Society.

THE BERMUDA BIOLOGICAL STATION. The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (known as BIOS) is an independent, non-profit marine science and education institute located in Ferry Reach, St. George's, Bermuda. The Institute, founded in 1903 as the Bermuda Biological Station, hosts a full-time faculty of oceanographers, biologists, and environmental scientists, graduate and undergraduate students. BIOS's strategic mid-Atlantic Ocean location has at its doorstep a diverse marine environment, with close proximity to deep ocean as well as coral reef and near shore habitats. Prior to 5 September 2006, BIOS was known as the Bermuda Biological Station for Research. Founded in 1903 and incorporated in New York as a US not-for-profit institution in 1926, in its initial years BIOS was a seasonal field station for visiting zoologists and biologists to take advantage of Bermuda's diverse marine environment. After the Second World War, BIOS became a year-round research center, anchored by the establishment in 1954 of Hydrostation 'S': regular deep ocean observations of a single point in the ocean that continue today, creating the longest continuous oceanic database in the world. During the following few decades, increasing numbers of visiting scientists brought an increased emphasis on biological and geological studies. Summers from 1928 to 1939, oceanographic explorer William Beebe worked in Bermuda. During those years, Beebe visited BIOS (then the Bermuda Biological Station for Research) and worked with BIOS staff. While Beebe is best remembered for his Bathysphere dives at Nonsuch Island, he made a number of other significant scientific contributions during his stay, mainly the discovery of new species of marine life.

PROVENANCE: RUDOLPH NUNNEMACHER (1913-1988) was chair of biology at Clark University, a marine biologist and neuroanatomist who performed research at the Bermuda Biological Station, leading field trips there for 21 years.