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Thanks Patrick Geddes for his recommendation to Dr George Edward Post in Beruit and advises that he has been appointed assistant curator at the botanical museum there. Outlines the terms of the appointment and advises that he will undertake study at Kew before departing for Beruit.

Notes dealing with the effects of external influences, such as temperature and light, on plants. Manuscript.

From 'The Scout'. Issue No. 181. Printed.

Source unknown.

Source unknown.

Details his proposed visit to Geddes. Hopes that Geddes has received the returned draft report on Abbotsholme School from Robert Oswald Moon. Refers to Granville Stanley Hall's book and describes his own state of health.

Concerning the Palolo fish. Printed.

With reference to the work on this subject by eminent botanist [W.F] Hofmeister, b. 1867, who in his textbook 'The Plant Cell', was first to introduce an alternative view to classical cell theory by introducing the ‘‘organismal concept of multicellularity’’. Typescript.

Articles by T. Wemys Fulton on the growth and maturation of the ovarian eggs of Teleostean fishes and the Angler or Frog fish. Incomplete, pp. 88-134. Parts II - 'On the growth and maturation of the ovarian eggs of teleostean fishes'; Part III - 'The ovaries and ovarian eggs of the Angler or Frog fish (Lophius puscatorius), and of the John Dory (Zeus Faber)'. Printed.

Requests help with the enclosed [not extant], mentions their success in securing work for the Carnegie Library in a competition but appear to be seeking to undertake work another class of building.

From Revue des deux mondes, pp. 825-860.

Topics include: 'composition of plant'; 'transpiration'; 'burning combustion oxidation'; 'vegetable v. animal physiology'; 'physiology of leaf'; and 'metabolism'. Manuscript.

Manuscript.

Printed.