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On the Structure and Development of the Skull in the Common Snake. (Tropidonotus natrix). received October 15, 1877, - Read January 10, 1878.
(London, Harrison and Sons, 1879). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1878 - Vol. 169 - Part II. Pp. 385-417 and 7 lithographed plates.
First printing. Parker's work on comparative embryology and morphology settled the fate of Owen's transcendental archetype theory of the vertebrate skull once and for all.
On some Foraminifera from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, including Davis Straits and Buffin's Bay. Received April 26, - Read May 18, 1864.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1865). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1865. Vol. 155. Pp. 325-411 a. 8 lithographed plates with many figs.
First apprance of a classic paper on forarms, describing many type-specimens. Parker became one of the greatest authorities on the Foraminifera, a group containing microscopic single-celled amoeboid protists with calcareous tests (shells). Had he not met Rupert Jones and Crawford Williamson he might have remained an unpublished amateur. It was Jones, mainly, who taught him how to present his considerable knowledge, and together they wrote 34 papers on the forams.
On the Structure of the Skull in the Mammalia. Part (I-) III. (I. On the Structure and Development of the Skull in the Pig (Sus scrofa). II. Edentata. III. Insectivora). 3 Papers.
London, Taylor and Francis, 1874 - Harrison and Sons, 1886. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 164, pp. 289-336 and 10 lithographed plates, some coloured. - Vol. 176, pp. 1-275,(3) and 39 tinted lithographed plates.
