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According to Wikipedia, Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar. He was a pioneer of mathematical and theoretical biology, travelled on expeditions to the Bering Strait and held the position of Professor of Natural History at University College, Dundee for 32 years, then at St Andrews for 31 years. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, was knighted, and received the Darwin Medal and the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal.

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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Published Works

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The Fertilisation of Flowers (131)
A glossary of Greek fishes (1936) (71)
On growth and form / by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. (1945) (22)
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus: British Museum 10057 and 10058 (13)
X.—On some new and rare Hydroid Zoophytes (Sertulariidæ and Thuiariidæ) from Australia and New Zealand (1879) (8)
The Greek Winds (1918) (7)
On the Pterylosis of the Giant Humming‐bird (Patagona gigas) (1901) (7)
On the Auditory Labyrinth of Orthagoriscus Mola L (1888) (5)
The Birds of Diomede (1918) (4)
THE REGENERATION OF LOST PARTS IN ANIMALS (1884) (3)
Note on a Tapeworm from Echidna (Tænia Echidnæ sp. n.) (1893) (3)
Sir Thomas Little Heath 1861-1940 (1941) (3)
Studies from the Museum of Zoology in University College, Dundee. (3)
Games and Playthings (1933) (3)
The Greek for a Zebra (1943) (2)
How to Catch Cuttlefish (1928) (2)
A bibliography of Protozoa, sponges, Coelenterata, and worms, including also the Polyzoa, Brachiopoda and Tunicata, for the years 1861-1883 / edited for the syndics of the University Press. (1)
A glossary of Greek birds, by D'Arcy Wentworth Thomoson. (1)
Note sur une liste de noms de poissons (1938) (1)
Animals for Show and Pleasure (1938) (1)
‘Byzantios olent lacertos’ (Stat. S. 4, 9, 13) (1932) (1)
North Sea fishery investigations : reports of the British delegates attending the international conferences, held at Stockholm, Christiania, and Copenhagen, with respect to fishery and hydrographical investigations in the North Sea, and correspondence relating thereto (1)
Wheat in Antiquity (1946) (1)
The Mind of the Ancient World . A Consideration of Pliny's Natural History . Pp. xv + 302; frontispiece. By H. N. Wethered. London: Longmans, 1937. Cloth, 12s. 6d. (1938) (1)
Fish in Tiber (1938) (1)
XIV.—Fifty Years Ago, in the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1935) (1)
Diocles of Carystus (1939) (0)
Sir James Mackenzie (1925) (0)
2. On the Blood of Myxine. (0)
Physiologus - Francesco Sbordone: Physiologus . Pp. cxix + 332. Milan: Società Anonima Editrice ‘Dante Alighieri’, 1936. Paper, L. 60. (1938) (0)
Our Debt to Greece and Rome: Mathematics . By David Eugene Smith. Pp. x+175. Sm. 8vo. George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd., 1923. Cloth, 5s. net. (1924) (0)
The geography of the Atlantic ocean (1913) (0)
The Greek for a Dormouse (1945) (0)
XXII.—The Emblem of the Crab in Relation to the sign Cancer (0)
The Beginnings of Botany (1940) (0)
Pliny, Naturalis Historia, XVIII, 97 (1945) (0)
3. On the Larynx and Stomach in Cetacea. (0)
Glanis and Juvenal V. 104. (See C.R. LII. 56.) (1938) (0)
ΚΤΙΛΟΣ (1932) (0)
Despatch from professor D'Arcy Thompson forwarding a report on his mission to Behring Sea in 1897 (0)
The Greek for a Goldfinch (1924) (0)
Aristotle's Zoology (1938) (0)
‘Mice and Rats and Such Small Deer’ (1938) (0)
Francis J. Carmody: Physiologus Latinus . Éditions préliminaires, versio B. Pp. 61. Paris: Droz, 1939. Paper. (1939) (0)
Fridtjof Nansen. 10. October 1861–13. May 1930 (1930) (0)
A bibliography of Protozoa, sponges, Coelenterata, and worms, including also the Polyzoa, Brachiopoda, and Tunicata, for the years 1861-1883. By D'Arcy W. Thompson. Edited for the syndics of the University press (0)
Drogen und Drogenhandel im Alterthum . Dr. Von Alfred Schmidt. Leipzig: J. Ambr. Barth. 1924. Pp. 136, 8vo. (0)
Aristophanes, Birds, 1122 (1940) (0)
The Ape in Antiquity (1939) (0)
Letter from D'Arcy W. Thompson to Alice E. Kober, August 17, 1942 (1942) (0)
Fish in Latin (1949) (0)
Archilochus, Fr. 56 (1941) (0)
Otto Pettersson. 1848–1941 (1948) (0)
XVII.—The ς′ of Diophantus (0)
Ancient Chemical Warfare (1933) (0)
Selections from Greek Mathematics (1940) (0)
Dioscoride Latino : Materia Medica. Libra primo. A cura di H. Mihӑescu. Pp.viii + 72. Jassy: A. A. Terek, 1938. Paper. (1939) (0)
The winds and the churches: an emendation in ‘Macbeth.’ (1940) (0)
Thompson on the Cranial Osteology of the Parrots (0)
Discussions: On the Multiplication of Large Numbers (1923) (0)

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On Growth and Form

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