The Crounian Lectures On Muscular Motion For the Years MDCCXLIV and MDCCXLV. Read before the Royal Society: By James Parsons, M. D. and Fellow of the Royal Society. Being a Supplement to the Philosophical Transactions for those Years.

James Parsons

RA Collection: Book

Record number

03/2870

Author

Variant Title

Philosophical transactions

Imprint

London:: Printed for C. Davis, over-against Gray'-Inn-Gate in Holborn; Printer to the Royal Society., 1745.

Physical Description

viii, 86 p., 3 pl. (fold.); 215mm (Quarto).

Series Title

Croonian lectures ; 1744, 1745

General Note

ESTC describes copies having [2] unnumbered pages before pages i-viii.

Contents

[T.p., dedic.] - Preface - [3 fold. pl.] - [Text, lectures I-III] - Table I [-III, i.e. notes on plates I-III].

Responsibility Note

Plates II and III are signed as engraved by J. Mynde.

The work is dedicated by the author to Martin Folkes, President, and to the Council and Fellows of the Royal Society.

References

ESTC, N3102

Summary Note

The Croonian lectures have been the Royal Society's premier lectures in biological sciences since 1738. They were devised by Dr Croone, one of the Society's original members (d. 1684) and his widow.

Reproductions

An electronic reproduction was published in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale). A microfilm version was published in 1991 (Woodbridge CT: Research Publications).

Provenance

Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.

Binding Note

18th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; rebacked and recornered in 20th century, spine lettered '1745', red morocco spine-label lettered 'Parsons' Crounian Lectures'. Bound with, Human Physiognomy Explain'd: In The Crounian Lectures On Muscular Motion. For the Year MDCCXLVI, by James Parsons (1747).

Name as Subject

Subject

Movement - Muscles - Anatomy
Lectures - Great Britain - 18th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century

Contributors

James Mynde, engraver
Martin Folkes, dedicatee
Charles Davis, publisher
Royal Society (London), dedicatee