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The Natural History Library $1.45NIO:^romPhilosophHOMER W. SMITHA DoubledayAnchorTheAmerican Museum ofNatural HistoryClifford HardingBIOLOGY DEPARTMENTFISH PHILOSOPHERFROM TOHOMER w. SMITH is onc of the outstanding figures inmodem physiology. Presently Chairman of the Depart-ment and Professor of Physiology at the New York Uni-versity School of Medicine, he has undertaken extensiveresearches on the structure and function of the kidney,and has written, in addition to numerous scientific arti-cles, the following key works on the subject: The Physi-Kidney;ology of the The Kidney: Structure and Func-tion in Health and Disease; and Principles RermlofPhysiology.Bom Denver,in Colorado, in ^^ prepared for a1895,career in medicine at the University of Denver where hereceived his A.B. degree, and Hopkinswent on to JohnsUniversity his Sc.D.for degree. As a National ResearchCouncil Fellow in Physiology, Dr. Smith studied for twoyears at the Harvard Medical School. A recipient of thePassano and Lasker awards, and a former Guggenheimfellow, he has also been awarded the Presidential Medalfor Merit.Dr. Smith is a member of the National Academy ofSciences, the American Physiological Society, the Ameri-can Society for Biological Chemists, the Association forAmerican Physicians, the Society for Experimental Biol-ogy and of the MountMedicine. Formerly presidentDesert Island is presently aBiological Laboratory, hetrustee of the Bermuda Laboratory for ...
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The Natural History Library $1.45
NIO
:^rom
Philosoph
HOMER W. SMITH
A DoubledayAnchor
TheAmerican Museum ofNatural History Clifford Harding
BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT
FISH PHILOSOPHERFROM TO HOMER w. SMITH is onc of the outstanding figures in
modem physiology. Presently Chairman of the Depart-
ment and Professor of Physiology at the New York Uni-
versity School of Medicine, he has undertaken extensive
researches on the structure and function of the kidney,
and has written, in addition to numerous scientific arti-
cles, the following key works on the subject: The Physi-
Kidney;ology of the The Kidney: Structure and Func-
tion in Health and Disease; and Principles Rermlof
Physiology.
Bom Denver,in Colorado, in ^^ prepared for a1895,
career in medicine at the University of Denver where he
received his A.B. degree, and Hopkinswent on to Johns
University his Sc.D.for degree. As a National Research
Council Fellow in Physiology, Dr. Smith studied for two
years at the Harvard Medical School. A recipient of the
Passano and Lasker awards, and a former Guggenheim
fellow, he has also been awarded the Presidential Medal
for Merit.
Dr. Smith is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences, the American Physiological Society, the Ameri-
can Society for Biological Chemists, the Association for
American Physicians, the Society for Experimental Biol-
ogy and of the MountMedicine. Formerly president
Desert Island is presently aBiological Laboratory, he
trustee of the Bermuda Laboratory for Biological Re-
search.
He is also the author of Kamongo: The Lungfish and
the Padre, a novel; The End Illusion, and Man andof
His Gods. THE NATURAL HISTORY LIBRARYmakes available in
paperback format books enduring interest inof
the and sciences. Publishedlife earth in co-
operation with The American Museum Natu-of
ral History by Doubleday Anchor Books, this
series introduces the student and the general
man—reader to the study his origins, his na-of
his environment—and to the wholeture, and
natural world, sub-microscopic to thefrom life
universe at large.
The series is guided by a board at The Ameri-
can Museum Natural History consistingof of:
Astronomer,Franklyn M. Branley, Associate De-
partment Astronomy; Charles M. Bogert,of
Chairman and Curator, Department Herpetol-of
ogy; E. Thomas Gilliard, Associate Curator, De-
partment Ornithology; Gordon F. Ekholm,of
Curator Mexican Archaeology, Departmentof of
Curator, De-Anthropology; and Bobb Schaeffer,
partment Vertebrate Paleontology.of FROM FISH TO
PHILOSOPHER
HOMER W. SMITH
WITH 11 ILLUSTRATIONS
PUBLISHED IN CO-OPERATION WITH
TEE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
THE NATURAL HISTORY LIBRARY
ANCHOR BOOKS
DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC.
GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK The Natural History Library Edition, 1961
by special arrangement with Little, Brown and Company
and CIBA Pharmaceutical Products Inc.
Copyright Museum of© 1961 by TheAmerican
Natural History
Copyright HomerW. Smith1953, 1959, by
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