Pp. ix, (1), 322, 210 text-figures. Later gray cloth spine, lettered in gilt, over the publisher’s brown cloth that is blind-stamped along the borders of the front and rear covers, lg 8vo. Clark was the first professor of Natural History at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. According to the forward to the Henry James Clark Papers, 1858-1912: “Clark's longest and most philosophical work, ‘Mind in Nature’ (1865), explored the origins and organization of life, grappling with larger concepts such as spontaneous generation (of which he was a strong advocate), symmetry, development and form, and the relationship of natural history to natural theology. Without referencing Charles Darwin, Clark staked out a position similar to Richard Owen on the evolution of life forms. Clark earned election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1856, and enjoyed membership in the Boston Society of Natural History (1857), American Microscopical Society (1865), and the National Academy of Sciences (1872).” Bookplate of the Harvard Club Library with a withdrawn stamp, no other library marks. Old signature on front endpaper.