The significance of bone structure.

Dwight, Thomas Jr., 1843–1911.

Boston : Pub. by the Society, 1886.

Journal : Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History ; vol. 4, no. 1.

Description : [1]-15 p., [3 l.] pl. ; ill.: 35 phot. figs., 1 tbl. ; 31 cm.

Photographs : 3 phototypes, composites of human and animal bone sections, numbered in the plate.

Photographer : The Lewis Company (27 Boylston St., Boston Mass).

Subject : Cancellous bone — Comparative anatomy.

Notes :

• Author caption: By Thomas Dwight, M. D., Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard University.
• Medical degree: Harvard Medical School, 1867.
• Surgeon, out-patients, Boston City Hospital, 1877–1880.
• Visiting-surgeon, Carney Hospital, 1876–1883.
• Staff president, Carney Hospital, 1883–1898.
• Instructor, comparative anatomy, Harvard, 1872.
• Lecturer in anatomy, Medical School of Maine at Bowdoin, 1873-1878.
• Parkman Professor of Anatomy, Harvard, 1883.
• President, Association of American Anatomists, 1894.
• Includes bibliography.
• Read before the Boston Society of Natural History ; March 3, 1886.
• Offprint also issued.
• Photo caption: Dwight Bone Structure ; Pl. 1[-3].
• Photo caption: Memoirs Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. Vol. IV. ; The Lewis Co. Boston.
• Index Medicus: 20205371170, 20405811090.

Dwight completed his postgraduate studies under Rüdinger in Munich, where he learned to prepare cryo-specimens. He was one of the first anatomists to introduce the technique to American scientists, elucidated in his most famous work, "Frozen sections of a child" (Wood, 1881). He succeeded Oliver Wendell Holmes as the Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard, benefiting, no doubt, by the august legacy of his father-in-law, John Collins Warren (1778 –1856), who was the first to hold the chair. Dwight surpassed both men in the number of contributions he made to anatomical science, notably on the subject of variations and anomalies of the skeleton.