Item #117784 Coral and Atolls. Their History, Description, Theories of their Origin both before and since that of Darwin, the Influence of Winds, Tides and Ocean Currents on their Formation and Transformations, their Present Condition, Products, Fauna and Flora. Frederic Wood JONES.
Coral and Atolls. Their History, Description, Theories of their Origin both before and since that of Darwin, the Influence of Winds, Tides and Ocean Currents on their Formation and Transformations, their Present Condition, Products, Fauna and Flora

Coral and Atolls. Their History, Description, Theories of their Origin both before and since that of Darwin, the Influence of Winds, Tides and Ocean Currents on their Formation and Transformations, their Present Condition, Products, Fauna and Flora

London, Lovell Reeve & Co., Ltd, 1910.

Octavo, xiv, 392 pages with 79 illustrations (some full-page) plus a folding map, a folding chart and 27 pages of plates (one double-page).

Maroon cloth (top edge gilt, others uncut) slightly flecked, sunned and bumped at the extremities; endpapers offset; a very good copy.

Frederic Wood Jones (1879-1954), 'anatomist, naturalist and anthropologist ... as a young graduate, Wood Jones found medicine 'cramped and small when compared to biology' and jumped at the chance of a post as medical officer to the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co. on the Cocos-Keeling Islands (1905-06). There his duties left him time for studies in natural history which earned him a doctorate, published as "Coral and Atolls" (London, 1910). There, too, he met his future wife Gertrude, daughter of George Clunies-Ross, governor of Cocos-Keeling' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). Provenance: Dr Edith Ulrica 'Rica' Hubbe (1885-1967), with her signature ('Rica Hubbe | 1927') on the front flyleaf.

Item #117784

Price (AUD): $200.00

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