<mods version='3.3' xmlns='http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3'> <titleInfo> <nonSort> The </nonSort> <title> advancement of science </title> <subTitle> Occasional essays &amp;amp; addresses </subTitle> </titleInfo> <name type='personal'> <namePart> Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray) </namePart> <namePart type='termsOfAddress'> Sir </namePart> <namePart type='date'> 1847-1929 </namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority='marcrelator' type='text'> creator </roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource> text </typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type='code' authority='marccountry'> enk </placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type='text'> London and </placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type='text'> New York </placeTerm> </place> <publisher> Macmillan </publisher> <dateIssued> 1890 </dateIssued> <issuance> monographic </issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority='iso639-2b' type='code'> eng </languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <form authority='marcform'> print </form> <extent> vi, 387 p. illus. 23 cm. </extent> </physicalDescription> <tableOfContents> Degeneration: a chapter in Darwinism.--Biology and the state.--Pasteur and hydrophobia. From the Nineteenth century, July 1886.--Examinations. From the Universal review, November 1888.--The scientific results of the International fisheries exhibition, London, 1883.--Centenarianism. From Macmillan's magazine, October 1871.--Parthenogenesis. A review of Von Siebold's Beiträge zur parthenogenesis der arthropoden. From Nature, 10th October, 1872.--A theory of heredity. A review of Haeckel's pamphlet entitled Perigenesis der plastidule. From Nature, 15th July, 1876.--The history and scope of zoology. From the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia britannica. </tableOfContents> <note type='statement of responsibility'> by E. Ray Lankester. </note> <subject authority=''> <topic/> </subject> <identifier type='lccn'> 02000158 </identifier> <recordInfo> <descriptionStandard> aacr2 </descriptionStandard> <recordContentSource authority='marcorg'> DLC </recordContentSource> <recordCreationDate encoding='marc'> 790501 </recordCreationDate> </recordInfo> </mods>