OSLER PRESENTATION COPY.


GOODRICH, EDWIN S. 1868-1946. The Evolution of Living Organisms. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, n.d. 8vo (163 x 112 mm). Publisher's green cloth. Fading to spine. Cracking to gutters at front and rear of book.PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM OSLER. English zoologist and comparative anatomist Edwin Stephen Goodrich was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, during Osler's time there as Regius Professor of Medicine. Osler's choice of his book as a gift is indicative of his ongoing interest in heredity and evolution spurred by the re-discovery of Gregor Mendel's work. See Victor McKusick, "Osler as a Medical Geneticist," Johns Hopkins Medical Journal, 1976.