Malignancy and evolution : a biological inquiry into the nature and causes of cancer / by Morley Roberts. With a preface by William Sampson Handley, M.S. Lond., F.R.C.S. Late Vice-President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Senior Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Member of the Executive Committee of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, Foreign Member of the Academy of Medicine of Rome, and of the Servian Committee for Cancer Research.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942.

Contributor:

Handley, W. Sampson (William Sampson), 1872-1962.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer.

Pathology.

Evolution.

Penn Provenance:

Gluck, 1895-1978 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

319 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm

Edition:

[New edition.].

Manufacture:

Bungay, Suffolk : Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited.

Place of Publication:

London : Grayson & Grayson, Curzon Street, Mayfair, [1934]

Notes:

Half-title page also has errata on recto.

"First published in 1926."

Contains preface from first edition by W. Sampson Handley and preface to new edition by author.

On dust-jacket: This book has been highly praised by the following Celebrated Medical Authorities: Sir Arthur Keith, F.R.S. Late Conservator Royal College of Surgeons; Dr. Langdon Brown, Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge; Dr. G. W. Nicholson, Professor of Morbid Histology, Guy's Hospital; Dr. A. F. Hurst, Senior Physician, Guy's Hospital; Professor Raymond Pearl, Professor of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A. Read the Opinions of these Eminent Authorities on the Back of this Wrapper.

Price from dust-jacket: 18/- Net.

Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-310) and index.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to Gluck from M.R. 21.1.39.

OCLC:

63600692