Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Nottingham 1866 by Grove, William Robert [W.R.] And Others - 1867

London: John Murray, 1867. Hardcover. Good. Contains William Robert [W.R.] Grove's important presidential oration on the sixth anniversary of the 1860 Huxley-Wilberforce debate. This "Discourse on Continuity" reflected the rapid acceptance of Darwinian ideas, and was the subject of much correspondence with Darwin and his colleagues. Other Articles include: A Catalogue of Observations of Luminous Meteors. Investigation of the Alum Bay Leaf Bed. Report on Muscular Irritability and the relations which exist beween Muscle, Nerve, and Blood. Physiological Action of Certain Compounds of Amyl and Ethyl. Exploring the Coasts of the Hebrides. Report on the Lunar Committee for Mapping the Surface of the Moon. An Account of Meteorological and Physical Observations in Three Balloon Ascents. Report on the Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands. And more. Approx. 1000 pp. Ex-lib but otherwise sound and bright. Rebound in library buckram to match original binding.