Author: SIEBOLD, C. TH. E. VON
Title: Wahre Parthenogenesis bei Schmetterlingen und Bienen. Ein Beitrag zur Fortpflanzungsgeschichte der Thiere.
Description: Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1856. 8vo. W. 1 fold. engr. pl. Contemp. half cloth over green marbl. brds. (Spine giltlett.). (VII, 144 pp.). (Text and plate some foxed spots throughout.). Very good copy. DSB vol. XII, pp. 420 - 422: 'Siebold's most important topic of research, however, was parthenogenesis; and in 1856 he published "Wahre Parthenogenesis ..." ...Siebold's many publications soon attracted the attention of zoologists. No less a figure than Alexander von Humboldt - who was a guest at Siebold's house in Danzig on 12 and 13 september 1840 - intervened successfully with King Ludwig I of Bavaria in favour of Siebold's appointment to the chair of zoology and comparative anatomy at ... Erlangen...': Nordenskjöld, Hist. of Biology, p. 420:

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