Ztyud'í nad" prostyshimi zhivotn'ími cvera Rossii. [Studies on simple animals from northern Russia].

St. Petersburg, B. O. Demakov, 1878. Large 8vo (25.3 x 16.2 cm). 183 pp.; three lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = An important but seldom seen work on microscopic life (Ciliata and Flagellifera) by the Russian botanist and microbiologist Konstantin Sergeevich Mereschkowski (1855-1921). 'In 1898, he left his wife and young son in Crimea and emigrated to America, where he took the name "William Adler". He worked in California as a botanist at Los Angeles and Berkeley University, devising a new system of classification of the diatoms. Mereschkowski argued that the cell organelles, the nucleus and the chloroplast, are the descendants of bacteria that evolved into an intracellular symbiosis with amoebae. His ideas are strikingly reflected in the modern symbiogenesis theory developed and popularised by Lynn Margulis, and now widely accepted.' (Wikipedia). In Russian with Latin nomenclature. Rare. Provenance: a loosely inserted hand-written pencilled note to Mrs Kofoid by the American biologist Bertha Lousa Uhlemeyer (1887-1956) "I have another articcle in Russian - alittle shorter than the first ." Uncut. Spine reinforced with a linen strip; a half-circular waterstain in the inner corners of the plates, otherwise a very good copy.