3 volumes of Advances in Genetics (vols. 2, 3, & 8).

New York:: Academic Press, 1948; 1950; 1956., 1948. 8vo. viii, 373; viii, 267; ix, 402 pp. Articles, figs., photos, index. Green cloth, gilt & black spines. Ownership rubber stamps of contributing author Norman Horowitz, California Institute of Technology. FINE. FIRST EDITION. Articles include: "The bearing of the New Systematics on Genetical Problems. The Nature of Species." Ernst Mayr; "Genetic Effects of Radiation." D. G. Catcheside. Milislav Demerec was a Croatian-American geneticist, and the director of the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington [CIW], now Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1941 to 1960, recruiting Barbara (truncated) McClintock and Alfred Hershey. Demerec was born and raised in Kostajnica. "In the 1940s the direction of Demerec's research changed to the genetics of bacteria and their viruses after a symposium given by Max Delbrück. During World War II he used his knowledge of bacterial genetics to increase the yield from the Penicillium. Following the war he continued to work on bacterial genetics and the problem of antibiotic resistance in E. coli, Salmonella, and Staphylococcus. In 1946 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1947 became the founding editor of Advances in Genetics, the first journal to review the finding of modern genetics. In the 1950s he served on the genetics panel of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation. In 1952 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society." EXTRA POSTAGE WILL APPLY. (Inventory #: S7854)