The bookplate of Garrett Hardin (Figure 46, 47) is quite intriguing, and can be explained, in part, by knowing that its owner was Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of California at Santa Barbara.  He was trained as an ecologist and microbiologist at the University of Chicago, and at Stanford University.  He is perhaps best known for his 1968 essay, The Tragedy of the Common (Science 162), now reprinted in over 100 anthologies; it has to do with ecology, population theory, economics, and political science.   In the bookplate, the winged and horned demon-like figure guides the ambiguous ear-trunk-arm in writing on sheaves of paper that turn into the likeness of a tape worm, but as we get farther out, the writing paper segments become, successively, a paramecium, algae, euglenoid forms, planaria, amoebae, . . . and they trail off ever more minute.  Interesting.

click image to enlarge (168K) Figure 46

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There is a beautiful interior illustrated in the bookplate of Henry Roughton Hogg (Figures 48,49).  The splendid binocular microscope on the table is covered with a bell jar; a beautiful refractor telescope with finder and movable mount is toward the left.  There is a spider in the upper left.  The Latin inscription along the side, Duce Natura Sequor, can be translated as “pleasant is the pursuit of Nature.”  What a very wonderful room this is, with microscope, refractor telescope, and plenty of good books; a very inviting room.  Henry Roughton Hogg was an insurance adjustor in Rochester, NY, who was described as “an avid book collector.”  His father was a historian in Rochester.

click image to enlarge (188K) Figure 48

click image to enlarge (161K) Figure 49