Essays on Growth and Form presented to D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Abstract

THE production of a Festschrift is not a usual practice in Britain ; but there are some men whose influence has been so decisive in stimulating the widespread exploration of a scientific problem which they were unequivocally responsible for pointing out, that a tribute to their insight comes spontaneously to the minds of their followers when the occasion arises. Few British biologists who are concerned with the general problems of anatomy would hesitate to include D'Arcy Thompson in this category, or to feel a wish, on some suitable occasion, to make an acknowledgment of their debt to him. The occasion which has been chosen for the presentation of this volume of studies is the completion of his sixtieth year as professor, first in University College, Dundee, which later became incorporated in the University of St. Andrews.

Essays on Growth and Form presented to D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Edited by W. E. Le Gros Clark P. B. Medawar. Pp. viii + 408 + 13 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1945.) 21s. net.