Over de voorouderlijke stamvormen der vertebraten. [AND] De evolutie in nieuwe banen.

Amsterdam, Johannes Müller, 1883. 4to (28.0 x 23.0 cm). 20 pp.; one large, folded lithographed plate. Original pictorial wrappers. = Rare paper by the Dutch zoologist and Darwinist Ambrosius Arnold Willem Hubrecht (1853-1915), Professor of Zoology in the medical faculty of Utrecht University. This work deals with the origin of the vertebrates, and was separately published from the Natuurkundige Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (Journal of the Dutch royal Academy of Sciences). The Hubrecht Institute was named after him. Hubrecht lived in Janskerkhof in Utrecht, an official residence that was later also to contain the Anatomy/Embryology Laboratory and the Anatomy Museum of Utrecht University. At the beginning of the 1880s Hubrecht corresponded with Charles Darwin, who paved the way for the theory of evolution in his book, On the origin of species. During his life Hubrecht assembled a vast amount of embryonic material from a number of species, particularly from the former Dutch colonies of the East Indies. This collection is available for study at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, which is part of the Humboldt-Universität. In addition some cultural-historical items are on display at the Utrecht University Museum. Small tear in front wrapper. The plate caption inadvertently omitted description of figs. 16-18; these have been added in an old hand. A very good copy. Added: the author's speech on evolution "De evolutie in nieuwe banen", held on 20 March 1902. Offprint, 30 pp., wrappers chipped, otherwise a very good copy. Both works are rare.