The bookplate with the hand-written name of Thomas L. Jones (Figure 50) is not a custom, personalized bookplate; it is a generic “Science” bookplate.  There is another bookplate of the same generic design (Figure 51), signed Cy. L. Wall(?).  Still, it’s a rather nice bookplate, with microscope, chemical apparatus, medical apparatus (stethoscope, forceps), and caduceus symbolism.

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The bookplate of Dr. Ludwig Kofler (1865-1947) (Figure 52) has suggestions of botany, chemistry and pharmacy – the plant, the distillation apparatus, and the balance, but dates from the 1920’s, before his interest in thermomicroscopy (Figure 53).  Most readers will know Kofler’s name through the Kofler Hotstage, the Kofler Hotbar, and his numerous books on thermal methods in the microscopical study of pharmaceuticals.

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The bookplate of Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865-1947) is very interesting (Figure 54); there are planktonic organisms about to be hauled into the plankton net being towed by the research vessel.  Kofoid was born in Illinois in 1865, did his undergraduate work at Oberlin College, and received his PhD in Zoology from Harvard in 1894.  He was at the University of Michigan for a year, and for five and a half years, he was Superintendent of the Illinois Biological Station, where he wrote numerous articles and books, including the massive The Plankton of the Illinois River 1894-1899.  He next went to the University of California at Berkeley where he was a leading member of the faculty for twenty-five years.  Look at the upper left end of the bookplate; the campanile (bell tower) seen outside the window is the one on the Berkeley campus of the University of California.  Kofoid was one of the leading investigators in protozoology and limnology, and was the developer of what came to be known as the Kofoid Bucket, a device used in the collection of planktonic samples.  Here is a color plate from Kofoid’s spectacular 1921 publication on The Free-living Unarmored Dinoflagellata (Figure 55); some of these forms appear in his bookplate.  The associates of Professor Kofoid are said to have been always impressed by the succession of arrivals of packages of books, which did not cease until his death in 1947.  A few months before his death, he gave the University more than 40,000 volumes, including many rare works in the history of science and medicine.  His obituary appears in Science 106 462-3 (1947).

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