Essays on growth and form presented to D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
By: Edited by W.E. Le Gros Clark and P.B. Medawar.
Contributors: Clark, Wilfrid E. Le Gros 1895-1971, ed.; Medawar, P. B. 1915- joint ed.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1945
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Thompson, Sir D'Arcy Wentworth, 1860-; Growth.
Notes: "References" at end of each chapter.
Table of contents: title: Deformation patterns in the cerebral cortex, by W.E.L. Clark.; title: Growth and form in an insect, by V.B. Wigglesworth.; title: The history of the shape of a nerve-fibre, by J.Z. Young.; title: On biological transformations, by J.H. Woodger.; title: Some problems in the study of allometric growth, by E.C.R. Reeve and J.S. Huxley.; title: Size, shape, and age, by P.B. Medawar.; title: The analysis of growing form, by O.W. Richards and A.J. Kavanagh.; title: Size and organization in the development of ascidians, by N.J. Berrill.; title: Growth and form in tissue cultures, by E.N. Willmer.; title: Some reflections on the forms of simpler cells, by J.F. Danielli.; title: The forms of biological molecules, by W.T. Astbury.; title: Population analysis as a chapter in the mathematical theory of evolution, by A.J. Lotka.; title: A list of the published writings of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, by G.H. Bushnell.