Contributions to Embryology

Abstract

LONG before the war it was being realised in England that the centre of embryologicai research, at least so far as concerns inquiries into the developmental stages of the human body, was shifting from the laboratories of Germany to those of the United States. The transference was the work of one man—the late Prof. F. P. Mall, who died in 1917 at the age of fifty-five. Prof. Mall stocked the new and highly equipped anatomical laboratories of the United States with young men and women who had served their apprenticeship with him in the anatomical department of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. In 1918 he would have reached the twenty-fifth anniversary of his appointment at Baltimore, and his pupils, “in recognition of his inspiring leadership, and in response to the strong feeling of affection with which they had come to regard him,” intended to mark the occasion by dedicating to him a volume of their most recent investigations. These essays, owing to his untimely death, have now to appear as a memorial volume, and the sense of regret that Prof. Mall did not live to study it will be felt as acutely on this side of the Atlantic as on the other, for many of its contributors have made highly important additions to our knowledge of the growing embryo. The volume is issued by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, under the ægis of which Prof. Mall had established a department of embryology two years before his death.

Contributions to Embryology.

Vol. ix., Nos. 27 to 46. A Memorial to Franklin Paine Mall. (Publication No. 272.) Pp. v + 554 + plates. (Washington: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1920.)