Author: Stechow, E.
Title: Beiträge zur Kenntnis von Branchiocerianthus imperator (Allman). Inaugural-Dissertation.
Description: München, F. Straub, 1908. 4to (28.0 x 21.9 cm). 31 pp.; ten fine text illustrations. Original printed wrappers. = A fine copy of a rare thesis by what later became the leading German authority on Anthozoa and Hydrozoa, Eberhard Stechow (1883-1959). Stechow wrote about 40 scientific papers and described numerous new genera and species. He also created the first comprehensive determination tables of the Hydrozoa and put particular emphasis on the phylogenetic relationships. From 1905 to 1937, Stechow's worked at the Zoologische Staatssammlung in Munich, first as a volunteer research assistant. Since 1927 as an assistant, then as conservator and from 1937 as a department manager. His research trips took him to the Mediterranean region, the West Indies and California. From there he brought many hydrozoans back to Munich. Today, this collection houses over 1000 specimens preserved in ethanol and several thousand micro-preparations, among which are numerous type specimens (cf. Wikipedia). Slight toning to wrapper edges, otherwise an excellent, clean and unmarked copy.

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