Animal Mechanics (Signed)

Sir Charles Bell & Jeffries Wyman

The Riverside Press, 1902

[Inscribed by the author's brother Morrill Wyman to John Trowbridge (Rumford Professor) on front end page] Hardcover. No dust jacket. Tight binding. Shelf wear with some bumping/rubbing to corners. Clean, unmarked pages. First front end page and mid-page detached but included. Johns Hopkins University book plate to verso. xi, 135 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Morrill Wyman, brother of Jeffries, was an American physician and social reformer. Best known for his work on hay fever. A social reformer, Harvard overseer, hospital president, and increased public awareness of the use of  corporal punishment on young women and girls in public schools.  

John Trowbridge was an American physicist, noted for his research into electricity and magnetism, and for his innovations in scientific education. He was the Rumford Chair of Physics at Harvard University from 1888-1910.