One Autograph Letter Signed, and four Typed Notes Signed to "Dr. Crow" [W.B. Crow, author of "Contributions to the Principles of Morphology".]

Author: 
Charles Singer, historian of science, technology, and medicine
Publication details: 
5 North Grove, Highgate Village, [London], N6, 1928-1931.
£120.00
SKU: 13712

Total of five letters, total 5pp., 8vo (4) and 12mo (1), small amount of chipping and staining, texts clear and complete. (1928) He acknowledges receipt of "Symmetry in Organisms" which he read with 'pleasure & profit'; (March 1929) He acknowldges recipt of 'Principles of Morphology' which he found particularly interesting "because I am writing the section on the subject in my 'History of Biology'"; (April 1929) "I am delighted to sign your application for teh Royal Society of Medicine. I fear you will find it rather expensive. Don't do it if you cannot afford it." He's making enquiries for him in London on an unknown issue; (Sept. 1930) Thanks for his "paper on the voice which I have just read with great pleasure and greatly admire your versatility", and gives news; (Feb. 1931) "Very many thanks for your reprint on the vertebral theory of the skull. Oddly enough I was recently reading up the subject for my 'Short History of Biology' which is printed but not published."