Author: Cienkowski, Leon [ Tsenkovsky, Lev Semyonovich (1822-1887)] [ Menshutkin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich (1842-1907)] ; et al.
Title: Zur Morphologie der Bacterien [bound together with 5 other unrelated monographs by various authors]
Description: St-Pétersbourg, l'Académie Impériale, 1877. Later cloth. 30x22cm, 139,(8) pp. Later (recent) binder's blind cloth. Some stains and pinholing to the last item.. Some tape marks to title and last page of first item. Good. ¶ This is a single volume containing 6 monographs of the series Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St-Pétersbourg, VIIe Série,, including Tome XXV, No.s 2; 3; 4; & 5 (1877); Tome XI, No. 17 (1868); and Tome XV, No. 5 (1870) . Includes: 1) Leon Cienkowski "Zur Morphologie der Bacterien" [1877, 18 pages + 2 engraved plates]; 2) Carl Schmidt ; & F, Dohrandt "Wassermenge und Suspensionsschlamm des Amu-Darja in seinem Unterlaufe" [1877; 48 pages + a folding chart]; 3) N. von Kokscharow "Über Waluewit" [1877; 21 pages + an engraved plate]; 4) Nikolai Menshutkin " Recherches sur l'influence exercée par l'isomérie des alcools et des acides sur la formation des é thers composés" [1877; 33 pages + 2 folding graphs]; 5) Filip Vasiljevic Ovsjannikov "Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Leuchtorgane von Lampyris noctiluca" [1868; 11 pages + engraved plate]; 6) Julius Fritzsche "Über einen eigenthümlichen Molecular-Zustand des Zinnes" [1870; 8 pages + an engraved plate]. [" Tsenkovsky was a Polish-Ukrainian botanist, protozoologist, bacteriologist...one of the pioneers of the ontogenetic method of studying lower plants and lower animals. Also, he was developing a concept on genetic unity of flora and fauna...one of the advocates of the teachings of Charles Darwin...." - wikipedia]; [" Menshutkin was a Russian chemist who discovered the process of converting a tertiary amine to a quaternary ammonium salt via the reaction with an alkyl halide, now known as the Menshutkin reaction" - wikipedia];

Keywords: History of Science, Bacteriology, Medicine, Organic Chemistry, Russian Science, Tsarist Russia, , ,