Davenport, C. B. (Charles)

Inheritance in Poultry -- inscribed to geneticist Edmund B. Wilson

Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1906. First printing. Paperback. Tall 8vo, wraps, good copy with some wear and loss to covers, brownish stain to top outer corner of most pages. INSCRIBED: "Professor E. B. Wilson with the regards of Chas B. Davenport" and with Wilson's ink stamp. 136 pp, 17 gravure photoplates of fowl. Davenport was a biologist and geneticist influential in the eugenics movement; Wilson was one of the most well known geneticists and zoologists of his time, author of the enormously influential textbook, "The Cell." Good. Item #H24017

Price: $125.00