Growth in Length: Embryological Essays

Richard Assheton
Cambridge University Press, 5/22/2014
EAN 9781107696679, ISBN10: 1107696674

Paperback, 118 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm
Language: English

Originally published in 1916, this book contains the text of three lectures delivered by Richard Assheton to zoology students at the University of London in 1913 on the subject of how the vertebrate embryo grows along its main axis. An essay by Assheton from 1910 on the mechanics of gastrulation is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of embryology.

Publications by the same author
The growth in length of the vertebrate embryo
The geometrical relation of the nuclei in an invaginating gastrula (e.g. amphioxus) considered in connection with cell rhythm , and Dreisch's conception of entelechy
Literature referred to.