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Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1906.BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON MARINE MOLLUSKS INSCRIBED BY AMERICAN TO BRITISH MALACOLOGIST.
18.5x27.5 cm offprint, brown printed paper covers, inscription to cover, "Mr. Ernest Ruthven Sykes with the writer's compliments," pp 109-151, plates XVII-XXXI. Spine worn, otherwise very good in custom archival mylar cover.
FRANK MACE MACFARLAND (1869-1951) spent a long and productive career devoted to the study of nudibranch sea slugs, some of which are the most beautifully colored and ecologically complex of all invertebrate inhabitants of in-shore marine habitats. His studies, particularly of the species-rich communities of California, were considered to be among the most detailed and meticulous of the time, and at his death in 1951, he was broadly acknowledged to be a world expert on this ecologically diverse group of mollusks. MacFarland was born in Centralia, Illinois, and studied at DePauw University in Indiana. In 1892 he enrolled as an advanced… Read More