DEUXIÈME EXPÉDITION ANTARCTIQUE FRANÇAISE (1908-1910) COMMANDÉE par le DR. JEAN CHARCOT. Sciences Naturelles : Documents Scientifiques. CÉTACÉS DE L'ANTARCTIQUE (Baleinoptéres, Ziphiidés, Delphinidés), par le DR. J. LIOUVILLE, Naturaliste et Médecin de l'Expédition.

(SECOND FRENCH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION (1908-1910) COMMANDED by DR. JEAN CHARCOT. Natural Sciences: Scientific Papers. ANTARCTIC CETACEANS (Balaenoptera, Ziphiidae, Delphinidae), by DR. J. LIOUVILLE, Naturalist and Doctor of the Expedition.)

PARIS: Masson et Compagnie, 1913. First Edition.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the half-title page by Dr. JACQUES LIOUVILLE to the famous Biologist and Mathematician D'ARCY WENTWORTH THOMPSON:

"To / Professor D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Esq. / With the author's best compliments / Jacq. Liouville / 1914 / Member International Congress of Zoology".

Tipped on to the same half-title page is Liouville's card which states: "35 rue de l'Université (VIIe), Paris / DOCTEUR JACQUES LIOUVILLE / Lauréat de la Faculté de Médecine / Médecin et Naturaliste de l'Expédition Antarctique française."

Professionally rebound in Hardcovers, green cloth covered boards, gilt titling to the spine, 9x11 inches. Pagination: vi, 276 pages plus 15 plates at the rear.

ILLUSTRATED with 15 gorgeous plates, a frontispiece map, and some in text illustrations, graphs and charts. Most of the plates have had their tissue guards removed.

VERY GOOD condition, just lightly used, still tight, bright, clean and unmarked. The few tissue guards that are still on the plates are toned, not affecting the plates themselves.

A RARE SIGNED and INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION ASSOCIATION COPY.

About JACQUES LIOUVILLE (from Wikipedia):

******Jacques Liouville, b.1879 d.1960, was a French doctor, naturalist, oceanographer and explorer. He took part in the second French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) alongside HIS UNCLE, the FAMOUS EXPLORER JEAN-BAPTISTE CHARCOT. Liouville was the Director of the Institut Scientifique Chérifien from 1920 to 1937.******

About D'ARCY WENTWORTH THOMPSON (from Wikipedia):

******Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE, b.1860 d.1948, was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar. He was a pioneer of mathematical and theoretical biology, traveled on expeditions to the Bering Strait and held the position of Professor of Natural History at University College, Dundee for 32 years, then at St Andrews for 31 years. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, was knighted, and received the Darwin Medal and the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal.

Thompson is remembered as the author of the 1917 book On Growth and Form, which led the way for the scientific explanation of morphogenesis, the process by which patterns and body structures are formed in plants and animals. His description of the mathematical beauty of nature, and the mathematical basis of the forms of animals and plants, stimulated thinkers as diverse as Julian Huxley, C. H. Waddington, Alan Turing, René Thom, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Eduardo Paolozzi, Le Corbusier, Christopher Alexander and Mies van der Rohe.

Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1916, elected an International member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1928, knighted in 1937 and received the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1938. In 1941, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. He was awarded the Darwin Medal in 1946. For his revised On Growth and Form, he was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1942. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1885, and was active in the Society over many years, serving as president from 1934 to 1939.******