Author: Boone, [P.] L.
Title: Scientific results of the Cruises of the yachts "Eagle" and "Ara", 1921-1928, William K. Vanderbilt, commanding. Coelenterata, Echinodermata and Mollusca. [AND] Scientific results of the World cruises of the yachts "Ara" 1928-1929, and "Alva" 1931-1932, "Alva" Mediterranean cruise 1933, and "Alva" South American cruise 1935, William K. Vanderbilt, commanding. Marine algae, Coelenterata, Annelida, Echinodermata, Crustacea, Mollusca.
Description: Huntington, NY, Privately Published, 1933-1938. Two volumes in two. 8vo (24.3 x 16.3 cm). 589 (217; 372) pp.; 285 (133; 152) plates. Original uniform dark green buckram with gilt title on the spines and front boards. = "The Vanderbilt Marine Museum is the privately owned depository of the marine collections of William K. Vanderbilt, Esquire, and is located on his country estate, 'Eagle's Nest,' Huntington, Long Island, New York. ...The scientific publications of the museum consist of a series of Bulletins, designed to disseminate results based on the marine zoological collections, every specimen of which was personally collected by Mr. Vanderbilt during a series of cruises in his yachts..." (from the prefaces). These are Bulletin of the Vanderbilt Marine Museum volumes IV and VII: Two parts of a seven-volume set but most other volumes deal with fish and - especially -crustaceans. These two parts are the ONLY ones with molluscs. In vol. IV are the Cephalopoda (pp. 165-198; plates 104-124), and Polyplacophora, Eupteropoda and Tectibranchia (pp. 199-210; plates 125-133. In volume VII, the Mollusca (Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Polyplacophora and Cephalopoda) occupy pp. 285-361, and plates 110-152. Author is the American malacologist and - principally - crustacean specialist Pearl Lee Boone (1891-1978). One source gives 1895 or 1896 as year of birth. For a while she worked at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, but was forced to leave. "During her time at the museum she was accused of incompetence by Waldo Schmitt and other colleagues, while she claimed she was harassed by him" (Wikipedia). She edited (and wrote most of) the Bulletin publications. Volume IV is rather common; Volume VII is much rarer. Very slight wear to board edges; cancelled stamp on titles, otherwise a very good, clean set.

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