Meyer, A. — Über das vorderhirn einiger Reptilien.

Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1892. 8vo (22.5 x 14.2 cm). 73 pp., two large folded, tinted plates. = Thesis of the Swiss - later American - medical doctor, anatomist and herpetologist Adolf Meyer (1866-1950) - not to be confused with the herpetologist Adolf Bernard Meyer (1840-1911). With detailed descriptions and illustrations of the brains of Reptilia, including Lacerta viridis, Anguis fragilis, Iguana tuberculosa, Testudo graeca, Chelone mydas, and other species. Published in the Zeitschrift für wissenschaftlige Zoologie, but this is an offprint. Spine cover chipped, otherwise a very good copy. Rare.