Author: (Mayor, Alfred G.). Davenport, Charles B
Title: Alfred Goldsborough Mayor. (in Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXI Eighth Memoir)
Description: Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927. 1927. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927. 1927. Good. - Quarto [approximately 11-1/2 inches high by 8-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in printed tan wrappers. The binding is lightly rubbed & unevenly darkened. There is creasing & a short tear to the top corner of the front wrap with a crease & 2 short tears to its front edge. Title & 14 pages, partially unopened. Illustrated with a black-and-white portrait frontispiece. The top page corners are creased. Good.

This eighth memoir in a National Academy of Sciences series is a biography of Alfred Goldsborough Mayor [1868-1922]. Mayor was an American marine biologist and zoologist whose interest in Medusae [jellyfish] was encouraged by Alexander Agassiz and led to their cooperating on a publication on the jellyfish of the Atlantic coast of North America and to many joint expeditions. Mayor was also known for his publications and papers on subjects ranging from physics to hunting and fishing. Good .

Keywords: SCIENCE; BIOLOGY; ZOOLOGY; ALFRED GOLDSBOROUGH MAYOR; ALFRED G. MAYER; BIOGRAPHY; C. B. DAVENPORT; MEMOIRS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, VOLUME XXI; MEDUSAE; JELLYFISH; ALEXANDER AGASSIZ.

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