Author: Bunge, A. [von]
Title: Untersuchungen zur Entwickelungsgeschichte des Beckengürtels der Amphibien, Reptilen und Vögel. Inaugural-Dissertation.
Description: Dorpat, [for the author], 1880. 8vo (21.3 x 13.3 cm). 57 pp.; two text illustrations, one large, multi-folded plate. = Thesis of the zoologist Alexander von Bunge (1851-1930). Not to be confused with his father, the Russian botanist and explorer Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803-1890). "From 1870 to 1878, he was a student at the University of Dorpat, where in 1874-75, he also worked as an assistant in the institute of anatomy. In 1880 he earned his medical doctorate [based on this thesis]. In 1885-86, he participated on a scientific journey to the Verkhoyansk region and the New Siberian Islands. On the expedition, they found the remains of mammoths and the fossils of other large mammals, and in the process, demonstrated that the New Siberian Islands had a relatively warm climate during the Late Pleistocene. Eduard von Toll gave the name "Bunge Land" for the low sandy shoal region joining Kotelny Island to Faddeyevsky Peninsula (formerly believed to be separate islands). Beginning in 1886, he worked as a physician on various Russian frigates, later participating in the Russo-Japanese War as head physician of the Russian Pacific Ocean squadron and marine hospitals in Port Arthur. In 1905 he embarked on an expedition to the mouth of the Yenisey River by way of the Northeast Passage" (Wikipedia). Disbound, plate detached; paper a bit spotted and toned, title and with a few, small, marginal chips, but otherwise good, complete.

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