The tail is rubbed, else the book appears unread. x 135 pages, indexed. "John Irvine Hunter (1898-1924), professor of anatomy, was born on 24 January 1898 at Bendigo, Victoria,....Hunter was a prolific research worker and published twenty papers in medical and scientific journals. His earlier papers were chiefly on topics in embryology and neurology, but those of 1924 and 1925 were mostly concerned with the innervation of muscle." (Australian Dictionary of Biography)