[2 papers] "L'Oocyte de Pholcus Phalangioides Fuessl."

Offprint from: Bulletins de l'Academie Royale de Belgique, 3rd series, t. XXXIII, no. 4. Brussels:: l'Academie Royale de Belgique, 1897; 1898., 1897. BOUND WITH: BAMBEKE. "Recherches sur l'Oocyte de Pholcus Phalangioides (Fuessl)." Offprint from: Archives de Biologie, tome XV. Liege: Vaillant-Carmanne, 1898. 8vo. 307-321; 511-598 pp. 6 double-page chromolithographic plates (2nd paper). Early brown cloth, gilt spine, original printed wrappers bound in. INSCRIBED & RUBBER STAMPED "Hommage de l'Auteur." Ownership signature of F. M. MacFarland. FINE. Includes six stunning double-page chromolithographs of microscopic scenes. Inscribed by the author. In 1884, Bambeke gave up the hygiene course to devote himself to histology and embryology. He published a series of memoirs on the constitution of the egg in the Bulletins of the Belgian Academy of Sciences and in Archives de biologie, including: a mediating report of the germinal vesicle with the periphery of the vitellus (1883), on the ovarian egg of Scorpène (1893), on the oocyte of Pholcus phalangioides (1898). PROVENANCE: Frank Mace MacFarland (1869–1951) was an American malacologist associated with Stanford University in California. He played a leading role in organizing the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory (now Hopkins Marine Station) in Pacific Grove, California, of which he was in charge from 1910 to 1913 and co-director from 1915 to 1917, and in which he maintained an active interest throughout the remainder of his life.