The Crounian Lectures On Muscular Motion For the Years MDCCXLIV and MDCCXLV. Read before the Royal Society: By James Parsons, M. D. and Fellow of the Royal Society. Being a Supplement to the Philosophical Transactions for those Years.
London:: Printed for C. Davis, over-against Gray'-Inn-Gate in Holborn; Printer to the Royal Society., 1745.
Physical Description
viii, 86 p., 3 pl. (fold.); 215mm (Quarto).
Series Title
Croonian lectures ; 1744, 1745
General Note
ESTC describes copies having [2] unnumbered pages before pages i-viii.
Contents
[T.p., dedic.] - Preface - [3 fold. pl.] - [Text, lectures I-III] - Table I [-III, i.e. notes on plates I-III].
Responsibility Note
Plates II and III are signed as engraved by J. Mynde.
The work is dedicated by the author to Martin Folkes, President, and to the Council and Fellows of the Royal Society.
References
ESTC, N3102
Summary Note
The Croonian lectures have been the Royal Society's premier lectures in biological sciences since 1738. They were devised by Dr Croone, one of the Society's original members (d. 1684) and his widow.
Reproductions
An electronic reproduction was published in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale). A microfilm version was published in 1991 (Woodbridge CT: Research Publications).
Provenance
Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Binding Note
18th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; rebacked and recornered in 20th century, spine lettered '1745', red morocco spine-label lettered 'Parsons' Crounian Lectures'. Bound with, Human Physiognomy Explain'd: In The Crounian Lectures On Muscular Motion. For the Year MDCCXLVI, by James Parsons (1747).