ARS MEMORIAE SEUPOTIUS REMINISCENTIAE: NOVA, EAQVE MAXIME
PERSPICVA METHODO, PER LOCA ET IMAGINES, AC PER NOTS ET
FIGURAS, IN MINIBUS POSITAS, TRADIA & EXPLICARA

Authore
Hieronymo Marafioto Polistinensi Calabro, Theology,
Francofurti, 1602. Illvstr. D. D. Balthassari Nilano 92 pp.

A superb illustrated presentation of views about palmistry
and its relation to divinations, necromancy etc. The
scientific utilization of ridged skin (volar skin) emerged
during our century to constitute the discipline known as
dactyloscopy in forensic applications and as dermatoglyphics
in the case of human-medical investigations. 
See notes re: Dr. H. Cummins).

Restored probably a century ago and with time this restored
binding has deteriorated - it needs to be restored again - 
the page contents are complete ... $ 600.

PHYSIOPHILOSOPHY by Lorenz Oken, M.D., Professor of Natural
History at the University of Zurich: &c. &c. from the
German by Alfred Tulk, London,  1847, 665 pp.

Phisiophilosophy is another name for Natural Philosophy. The
first edition was written in 1810 ... " the position taken,
namely, that the Animal Classes are virtually nothing else
than a representation of the sense-organs, and that they must
be arranged in accordance with them ... I first advanced the
doctrine, that all organic beings originate from and consist
of - vessicles or cells - ... these vessicles when singly
detached ... are the infusorial mass ... from whence all larger
organisms fashion themselves ... ". This volume is chock full
of thoughts and newly crafted words for emerging concepts
concerning evolution and genes, not yet but soon to be defined
by others. The chapter "Conception of Science" and "Truth"
offer: "Science is a series of necessarily inter-dependent and
consecutive propositions, which rest upon a certain fundamental
proposition. Now, if anything be certain it can only be one in
number ... there can also be only one science ... mathematics
... a science of mere forms without substance ... the highest
mathematical idea ... is the zero ... zero is in itself nothing
... the first act towards realization or becoming something, is
an origination of Many ... Many is a Definite ... the finite
only is real." Such prose is followed by pages dedicated to the
nature of God where we find; "Man is God wholly manifested"
(later elaborated by Hegel, Engels, Marx and Hitler) The main
effort of this treatise is to offer an organized view of the
mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms.

Note: Lorenz Ockenfuss later Oken 1779-1851 was a German
naturalist well known to Goethe as rector of the
Universtiy of Jena. His work underscores " a deep reliance on
deductive logic to explain all the mysteries of nature" (in
Br Encycl 23:754,1960).  The above book shows a compulsiveness
to fit God and Nature into neat formulas and tables in a unique
style, where each paragraph is numbered - perhaps a sign of
human arrogance, as if humans can not leave room for doubts
which nonetheless are part of human nature.  Oken is a poetic as
well as a tragic figure who inspired Goethe to make his
Dr. Faustus declare " ... primal sea jelly out of which all
life arises ... ", an anticipatory synthesis of what is now
called protoplasm.

P.S. from the library with the signature of Professor
Harold Cummins who transformed Dactiloscopy into a
biologic and medical science known as Dermatoglyphics, a term
he coined to refer to the scientific study of the patterns
present in the volar or ridged skin.

Needs to be rebound, all pages are in good condition  $500.
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GERMINAL SELECTION as a SOURCE OF DEFINITE VARIATION by
August Weismann, Chicago, The open Court Publishing Co.,
London, 1896.

In this pamphlet, Weismann attempts to define the concept
of gene; " ... the smallest and for us invisible vital
particles - the smallest ultimate units of vital
phenomena - elements which De Vries designated pangenes,
Wiesner plasomes, and I biophores ...".

Note: August Weismann 1834-1914 became a famous German
embryologist for his theory of the continuity of the
germ plasm. He proposed that living organism contain a
special hereditary substance or germ plasm which unlike
the perishable body (somatoplasm) is transmitted from
generation to generation (in Br Encycl.23:491,1960). He
vigorously opposed the doctrine of the inheritance of
acquired characters. (See offering of a volume with assays
by Wallace). Weismann opened the scientific world to the
impending explosive emergence of genetics. His work
predicted the discovery of meiosis and chromosomes.

This pamphlet is the synthesis and essence of the work of
Weismann. "... Many critics have characterized it
(germinal selection) as - a pure creation of imagination -
... to a certain extent it is such, as every theory is ...
it is a favorite attitude nowadays to look upon theory ...
as a worthless survival from the epoch of decrepit
"nature-philosophies" ... and place the value of the
slightest new fact infinitely higher than that of -
the most beautiful theory -  ... it was never intended
(germinal selection) as a theory of life, nor, indeed,
primarily, as a theory of evolution, but first and above
all as a theory of heredity.  Reading this pamphlet is
like being a witness to a dialog between great pioneers
among them, De Vries, Empedocles, Galton, Hertwig, Hertz,
Huxley, Lamarck, Malthus, Morgan, Roux, Spencer, and
Wallace being addressed by Weissman.

NOTE! From the library of Professor Harold Cummins with
his authograph and a note; (the pamphlet was) "injured in
fire of 1913 and discarded by University Library". Dr.
Cummins was a pioneer in Biology and Medical Genetics who
coined the term Dermatoglyphics to refer to the scientific
study of the patterns present on volar or ridged skin. As a
world pioneer, Dr. Cummins was instrumental in the
establishment of the FBI fingerprinting dactyloscopic
system. Highly characteristic Dermatoglyphic traits noted
in children with "mongolism" led Dr. Cummins to postulate a
single genetic cause for the disorder two decades before the
discovery of trisomy 21.

Paper back pamphlet, complete, front cover missing .. $ 500.

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MANS PLACE IN NATURE and other ANTHROPOLOGICAL ESSAYS by
Thomas H. Huxley, New York, D. Appleton and Co. 1896.
328 pg.

The contents deal with, among other themes, relations of
man to the lower animals, on the methods and results of
ethnology, British ethnology, and the Aryan question
concerning which Huxley writes " ... it is wrong to call
the people who spoke the primitive Aryan dialects and
inhabited the primitive home, the Aryan race. "Aryan" is
properly a term of classification used in  philology.
"Race" is the name of a sub-division of one of those
groups of living things which are called "species" in the
technical language of Zoology and Botany: and the term
connotes the possession of characters distinct from those
of the other members of the species, which have a strong
tendency to appear in the progeny ... " Note that while
the position by Huxley is scientifically proper,
Governments continue to foster data collection on "race"
including "aryan" now "white" for formerly "Caucasian".

In good condition and its original binding ....... $ 75.

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NATURAL SELECTION  A Series of Essays by Alfred Russel
Wallace. Macmillan and Co., London, 1879. 384 pp.

NOTE: Alfred Russel Wallace 1823-1913 became a world
famous English naturalist who with Charles Darwin
proposed a theory on the origin of species by natural
selection. In 1855 he wrote "On the Law Which Has
Regulated the Introduction of New Species". In 1858,
Wallace  sent a letter to Darwin outlining the "idea of
the survival of the fittest" and Darwin commented "if
Wallace had my manuscript (of 1842) he could not have
made a better short abstract!". A joint paper by Wallace
and Darwin was read in July 1858. The next crucial step was
the possibility of the hereditary transmission of acquired
characters discussed by August Weismann (see another
offering). Darwin died before the resolution of this issue
but Wallace accepted the general views of Weismann who is a
great forefather of genetics. (Br.Encycl.23:302,1960).
Wallace introduces these essays with "I now wish to say a
few words on the reasons which have led me to publish this
work ... (essays containing) an outline sketch of the theory
of the origin of species ... afterwards termed by Mr. Darwin
"natural selection " conceived by me before I had the least
notion of the scope and nature of Mr. Darwins labours ...
while some writers give more credit than I deserve, others
may ...  I have felt all my life ... that Mr. Darwin had
been ... perhaps best fitted for the great work ...
Another reason which has led me to publish this ... are
some important points on which I differ from Mr. Darwin
... ". Wallace had resisted the idea that man was part of
the same evolutionary process as the rest of animals.

In cloth, intact, few pencil marks, cover slightly
discolored ... $250.

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DAEDALUS or SCIENCE AND THE FUTURE. A paper read to the
Heretics, Cambridge on February 4th, 1923, by J. B. S.
Haldane, New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.,  1924. 93pp.

Haldane was a highly creative and forceful geneticist and
philosopher. In the Introduction he states " ... this
paper ... will be criticized ... this is necessary if
people are to be induced to think ... it is the whole
business of a university teacher to induce people to
think ...  I have no doubt that Einsteins name will still
be remembered ... A time will however come ... when
physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics
...  meanwhile we are in for a few centuries ... conducted
on a basis ... of Kantian idealism."  This booklet is a
fundamental statement by a great and controversial scientist
who made a great impact on Human Genetics and ended his
career in India.    In good condition $125.

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NATURES SECRETS REVEALED  SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAWS
OF SEX LIFE AND HEREDITY or EUGENICS  Vital Information for
the Married and Marriageable of All Ages; a Word at the
Right time to the Boy, Girl, Young Man, Young Woman, Husband,
Wife, Father and Mother; Also, Timely Help, counsel and
Instruction for Every Member of Every Home together with
Important Hints on Social purity, Heredity, Physical Manhood
and Womanhood by noted specialists embracing a Department on
Ethics of the Unmarried by Professor T. W. Shannon,
Introduced by Bishop Samuel Fallows etc. Profusely
Illustrated. S. A. Mullikin Co, Marietta, Ohio, 1919.

The title suggests the ravages of commercialism but the
contents are surprisingly temperate and reflect well the
sentiments of the epoch. In fact, this is a rather
complete home medical encyclopedia. " ... Anglo-Saxon
prudery and mock modesty, until very recent years, made
sex ... a tabooed subject. Today parents recognize the
value ... of a frank discussion of the subject."
Fascinating!
In cloth, intact, with numerous moving illustrations.
$ 120.

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EVOLUTION. Joseph Le Conte. Second Edition, New York: D.
Appleton & Co., 1896, 382 pp. illustrated.

Conte was professor in the University of California at
Berkley. During the decades that followed Darwin, the
impact on popular views of religion and faith by the
ideas associated with the origin of species was immense.
Even now, there are attempts to debase the idea of
evolution. Some scholars exploited and  continue to
exploit the issue selfishly in contrast to a minority of
others who attempt to contribute honestly toward a
balanced view. This work is a classic and daring example
of a remarkable person willing to tackle the complex issues
of biology, genetics as well as religion, dogmatism and
theology during difficult times. This is a paragon that
should stand in honor of Academic Freedom and the great
achievements fostered by the University of California at
Berkley.

"Surely, there are no questions of the day more burning
than these ... (is evolution true?)... Much, very much
has been written ... I have attempted to give a very
concise account ... an outline of the evidences of its
truths ... its relation to fundamental religious beliefs"

Part I offers a definition of Evolution, Part II deals
with the evidence and Part III examines "the Relation of

Evolution to Religious Thought". Concerning immortality
the author ventures ... "Everything is immortal or none.
Our boasted immortality by continued extension becomes
thinner and thinner until it evaporates into thin air. It
becomes nought else than conservation of energy, and not,
as we had hoped, conservation of self conscious personality
... Remember that the forces of Nature are naught else than
different forms of the one omnipresent Divine energy."

La Conte faces the common usual objection from theologians
in part III Chapter VI "The objection, that the above view
implies Pantheism" and says "I feel the full force of this
objection ... I freely admit that ... this scientific line
... strongly (carries) in the direction of pantheism ...
but spirit and matter, or mind and brain, or God and Nature,
is the fundamental antithesis which underlies and is the
cause of all other lesser antitheses ... absolutely
fundamental and ... forever irreconcilable ... we must
accept both sides ... the result of the limitation of our
faculties".

Note comments in regards to Neo-Darwinism, which includes
vistas primarily ushered by A. Weismann (his work is
included in this listing). La Conte, in page 93 states
"... his celebrated theory of the immortality of germ-plasm
 ... the body consists of two kinds of cells wholly different -
somatic cells and germ-cells ... inheritance is only through
germ cells ... therefore changes produced by the environment
(on somatic cells) therefore can not be inherited ". The
rediscovery of Mendel was to take only a few more years.
In half leather original binding ............ $ 250.


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THE MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE An Explanation of and a
Complete Guide for the use of the Stanford Revision and
Extension of The Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Lewis
M. Terman, Professor of Education, Lelan Stanford Junior
University, Houghton Mifflin Co., New York, 1916. 362 pp.

A classic and early rendition of the uses of Intelligence
Tests. An excellent chronology of the modifications
introduced to the Binet-Simon scales by investigators at
Stanford University. Of interest to those who wish to
grasp the seminal ideas underscoring current usage of such
measures that have so profoundly influenced and continue
to shape social and immigration USA policies.  "One of
the most important facts ... the frequent association of
delinquency and mental deficiency ... "  "the median IQ
for children of the superior  social class is about 7
points above ... that means that by the age of 14 inferior
class children are about one year below ... the median...
or two years below ... " (such vistas underscore the
reasoning offered for child welfare programs)

NOTE! Lewis Madison Terman 1877-1956 was a U.S.
psychologist and pioneer in developing tools for mental
testing. His research of gifted children made him
famous. His first major publication was the work given here,
following which the term IQ became widely known. (more
given in the Encyclopedia Britannica vol. 21, 1960)

In cloth, binding slightly loose, lower spine slightly
worn ... $195.

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THE HAIR, Growth, Care, Diseases and their Treatment by
C. Henri Leonard, Hundred and Sixteen Illustrations.
Detroit, The Illustrated Medical Journal Co. Publishers,
London, 1879, 320 pp.

A review of anatomy, physiology, color and singular
aspects of hair biology, followed by an clear exposition
of recessive hair growth, canities, alopecia and a host of
other ailments. The work is divided into 28 Chapters. The
contents are crisp and surprisingly current, as if to point
out the modest progress achieved in a century since. Most
sections examine the etymology, mythology, history, causes,
diagnosis and therapy of various ailments. The section
concerned with "hair in unusual places" illustrates the
attributes of the text, as in, "some aspiring young men,
whose moustaches resemble markedly Pauls definition of
faith - the substance of things hoped for, but the evidence
of things not seen - might be pardoned for coveting ...";
or later "yet when that foetal, moustached aquatic mammal
(whale) reaches adult life (whale), the hair (on the upper
lip) seems to have - struck in -, for you find it then only
in the mouth, hanging down from around the upper jaw ... to
act as a strainer ... ", the chapter ends in a series of
Fables with allusions that Aristomenes and Leonidas who may
have had a heart covered by  hair, to end in a review of
scientific studies of Benzoars or Hair Balls. In the midst
of chapters concerned with fungi, parasites, syphilis and
tumors we find a chapter dedicated to "Modes of Dressing
the Hair" and illustrated with 32 figures offers vistas
hard to find elsewhere; "... a more usual way of dressing
hair ... hair drawn up into the form known among the
Greeks as corymbus, which more literally signifies the
hair at the top of the head ... seen in figure 49, which
is the head of the great goddess Diana." Another chapter
is dedicated to the hair of the ancient Assyrians,
Egyptians and Peruvian Incas. One wonders if modern
corporate profit driven editors would allow such "waste"
in a volume dedicated to medical matters ... but how is a
patient or therapist understand the pathetic attention and
billions spent on the "treatment" or depilation of humans
and their pets without a mythological perspective. This
book is a treat and its review calls for another of its
citations : "My hair is gray, but not with years; nor grew
it white, in a single night, as mens have grown from
sudden fears ... " by Byron in his "Prisoner of Chillion".
NOTE! From the library and with the seal of Professor
      Harold Cummins (more details given above) ...
Trichoglyphs denotes hair patterns, a biologic phenomena
akin to Dermatoglyphics.

Paper bound, spine deteriorated, page content complete
...$ 250.

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HANDEDNESS  Right and Left by Ira S. Wile, M.S., M.D.,
Boston, Lothrope et Co., 1934. In cloth, 439 pp.

Perhaps among the best review on the subject. The analysis
and readability of the complex issues are in depth and
precise. This review concerned with "hand preferences"
spans the knowledge gained from studies of primitive man,
philology and explores systematically, theories on the
causation of dominant handedness, heliotropism, magic and
hand values, religion and hand symbolism. Each chapter is
rather brilliant and significantly, the superb and well
organized authoritative bibliography is followed by a 26
page index of expanded references. This is a serious work.

NOTE! Ex libris from the library of Professor Harold
Cummins. In short, this unique and key review of the
complex and unresolved topic of handedness offers summary
vistas to this intriguing extant issue related to cerebral
dominance and body lateralization or asymmetry. The
bibliography and data presented render this volume the
character of a thesaurus. In cloth, the binding is tight,
the covers are slightly discolored ... $ 250.

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"ESSAI SUR LA SANTE ET SUR LES MOYENS DE PROLONGER LA VIE"
Traduit de lAnglois de M Cheyne, Docteur en Medicine,&
Membre de la Societe Royale de Londres. A Paris, Chez
ROLLIN, 1725.

Chapters discuss means of prolonging life by presenting
hygienic ideas about air, management of drinking fluids,
diet, exercise and rest, evacuations, etc. Contrary to
many books of this genre, this treatise is a serious work.
367 pages.  Intact ... $ 500.

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PARENTHOOD AND RACE CULTURE. An Outline of Eugenics.
Caleb Willimas Saleeby, M.D., Cassell & Co. Ltd.,
London, 1909.

" Some years ago I ventured to coin the word eugenist,
which is now the accepted term ... it is at once a
science, and a religion ... he or she who would rather
leave this matter is placing "religion" or "morality" or
"politics" above the welfare of the life to come ... "
This is an epoch making work, elegant, precise for its
time, honest. The matter is presented in two parts:
Theory and Practice of Eugenics, or in more modern
terms, Genetic Counseling.

"This book, a first attempt to survey and define the
whole field of eugenics, appears in the year which finds
us celebrating the centenary of the birth of Charles
Darwin and the jubilee of the publication of The Origin
of Species. ... The present volume seeks to supply ...
which is at least considered and responsible ...
selection for parenthood based on the facts of
heredity ... no system can ignore education or be
effective without it ..." The treatment of Alcohol as a
"racial poison", is amazingly accurate and balanced.
Saleeby gives much credit to the views held by August
Weismann and expressed in his "Germ-Plasm" and "Germinal
Selection" landmark books (note; also listed here).

The index of subjects and index of names are very helpful.
This book is a superb exponent of the feverish rush to
inject "genetic" points of view at the time when the Laws
of Mendel were barely known, and yet, the arguments in
this instance are rather free from the nonsense that
permeates other works of the same period.

NOTE: the author claims credit for the word EUGENICS.
In green cloth, agreeably worn ... $275.

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SUPERSTITIONS connected with the History and Practice of
MEDICINE AND SURGERY by Thomas J Pettigrew, Philadelphia, Ed
Barrington, 1844. 345 pp.

This provocative work is organized in chapters dedicated to:
Value of Health - Empiricism - Paracelsus; Alchemy; Astrology;
Early Medicine; Talismans; Amulets; Charms; On the Influence of
the Mind upon the Body; Royal Gift of Healing; Valentine
Greatrakes: and Sympathetical Cures. This is a serious treatise
where some facts noted were better known then than now.

NOTE! formerly in the Library (ex libris) of Prof. Harold Cummins
      who is credited with the development of Dactiloscopy and
Dermatolgyphics (the scientific study of fingerprints and other
patterns of the ridged skin). Dr. Cummins was instrumental in the
establishment of the FBI fingerprinting system.

In perfect condition (except for one page being partially torn
without loss of text) .................................. $ 225.