PARKER, WILLIAM KITCHEN. - HEPATHOLOGY

On the Structure and Development of the Skull in the Common Snake. (Tropidonotus natrix). received October 15, 1877, - Read January 10, 1878.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1879). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1878 - Vol. 169 - Part II. Pp. 385-417 and 7 lithographed plates.

First printing. Parker's work on comparative embryology and morphology settled the fate of Owen's transcendental archetype theory of the vertebrate skull once and for all.

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