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PETER UNDERHILL
The person behind this signature remains a mystery; all that we have been able to determine is that he was acquainted with Christopher Morley.
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Creator: Haldane, J. B. S. (John Burdon Sanderson), 1892-1964
Title: Daedalus: Or Science and the Future
Description: Inscribed by Peter Underhill with spelling corrections in two further hands
Imprint: New York: Dutton, 1924
Item Date: 1924
Material Type: Monographs
ADA Caption: Daedelus: Or Science and the Future
Curatorial Department: Book Collection
Collection Name: Christopher Morley Collection
Stack Location: q 171 H15 1924c MOR
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Selected pages of a copy of J. B. S. Haldane's Daedalus: Or Science and the Future (New York: Dutton, 1924), inscribed by Peter Underhill.
This volume resides in the personal library of Christopher Morley. Underhill's signature matches closely with the one that appears on the door towards the bottom of the back left panel. The book, by renowned English geneticist J. B. S. Haldane, imagines how the invention of in-vitro fertilization (only a theoretical concept at the time) might change the world. It was one of several volumes written by the left-leaning scientist for a general audience.