Lo sviluppo della colonna vertebrale ne' pesci ossei

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30x22cm, 65,(8) pp., Recent binder's blind boards. Caption title. An extract from "Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Memorie della Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali, Serie 3, Volume XV; 1883". Pagination runs 311-372 + 8 single-side lithographed plates. ["Giovanni Battista Grassi was an Italian zoologist, known for work demonstrating that mosquitos carry the malaria parasite Plasmodium in their digestive tract, on the embryological development of honey bees, on parasites, particularly the vine parasite phylloxera, migrations and metamorphosis in eels, and on termites.,.In 1883 he became Professor of Comparative Zoology at the University of Catania, studying cestodes, the life cycle of the European eel (Catania) and the Moray eel (Rome). Also in Catania he began to study entomology and wrote a student text "The Origin and Descent of Myriapods and Insects" in addition to scientific papers. He also began to study malaria working with Raimondo Feletti on malaria, especially bird malaria. In 1895 Grassi was appointed professor of comparative anatomy at Rome University and joined Angelo Celli, Amico Bignami, Giuseppe Bastianelli and Ettore Marchiafava a group working on malaria in districts around Rome. Grassi was the group s entomologist. The group announced at the session of the Accademia dei Lincei on December 4, 1889 that a healthy man in a non-malarial zone had contracted tertian malaria after being bitten by an experimentally infected Anopheles claviger. Between 1900 and 1902, Grassi, Gustavo Pittaluga and Giovanni Noè made intensive sudies of malaria at Agro Portuense, at Fiumicino, on the Tiber, and on the plain of. N° de ref. del artículo 023861

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