The works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4)
Francis Maitland Balfour was professor of animal morphology at Cambridge and one of the founders of comparative embryology when he was killed in a climbing accident in the Alps in 1882, at the age of thirty. His collected works were published in a memorial edition edited by Michael Foster and Adam Sedgwick. This third volume contains the second part of his Treatise on Comparative Embryology, devoted to the chordates: lancelets, tunicates, fishes, amphibians, birds, reptiles and mammals, followed by general conclusions on the ancestral form of the group and a long section on the development of organs, from the skin and nervous system to the skull. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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