With reference to the publication of Patrick Geddes's papers after his death. Reference to James Slater and John Ross, and the possibility of some papers being at Montpellier.
Sem títuloIncludes chapter layouts: Biology - Botany: general 340-638; Evolution, natural selection and reproduction 639-726; Eugenics 727-732; Psychology 733-771; Nature study 772-789; Gardens 790-833; Dunfermline and Dundee naturalists' societies 834-840; Miscellanea 841-855; and Biology - botany: general [unnumbered]. Manuscript and typescript. Numbered pages.
Sem títuloPublication of Geddes's papers.
Suggests that if a volume of Patrick Geddes's sociological papers is to be published, such material as McGregor already has should be used for an essay entitled 'His Conception of Sociology'.
Regarding the book's preface.
Sem títuloPaginated a-c. Manuscript.
Sem títuloManuscript. Paginated.
Sem títuloBest known for his three-volume collaboration with Bertrand Russell, ‘Principia Mathematica’ (1910, 1912, 1913), the British philosopher of logic and mathematics Alfred North Whitehead, 1861–1947, was the originator of ‘Process theory’ in philosophy. Significantly, for Geddes and Thomson, the theory rejects philosophies which value static notions of being and instead advances a dynamic notion of becoming that views the world as “a web of interrelated processes” over an independence of things. Manuscript and typescript.
Sem títuloManuscript with typescript copy.
Sem títuloPart of letter regarding the recipient's proposal to produce a new book on sex. Manuscript.
Sem títuloConcerning proposed collaboration on book on 'The Principles of Biology'.
Sem títuloIncomplete. Manuscript.
Sem títuloIncludes draft of a review or article based on John Middleton Murray's God, Being an Introduction to the Science of Metabiology (1929). Manuscript.
Sem títuloReprinted from Popular Science Monthly.
Sem títuloDiscusses his reply to publishers, Walter Scott Publishing Company, on the failure to uphold the agreement in the decade since the edition of The Evolution of Sex was published, and a denial of Frederick J. Crowest's claim of leftover stock as reason for not paying royalties. Expresses his desire to 'get away from this firm altogether'.
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