Seeks help from Patrick Geddes in securing authors, asks to secure the 'Evolution of Cities' or an 'Introduction to Sociology' in conjunction with Victor Branford. Mentions enclosures sent to MacDougall and discusses a situation involving lawyers and children.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistOutlines that ten introductory lectures on the 'Study of Cities' are required for publication, with line illustrations only. Confirms that G. H. Perris will follow up with an agreement. Comments on Patrick Geddes' evolution syllabus and upcoming biological symposium. Suggests that they should write an essay or paper. Envelope extant and included.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistWrites about his failure to secure an author for 'Evolution', advises he is to meet with Ray Lankester. Encourages Patrick Geddes to commit to writing a joint book on the subject of evolution.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistIncludes draft of a review or article based on John Middleton Murray's God, Being an Introduction to the Science of Metabiology (1929). Manuscript.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistManuscript.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistRegarding the book's preface.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistManuscript, 8 pp. and typescript, 1 p.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistNotes apparently by J. Arthur Thomson for a lecture on the theory of evolution. Includes discussion of the nature and origin of variation; growth [theory]; Darwinian orthodoxy; problems of variation; causes of variation; and problems of evolution. Paginated. Typescript.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistWith bibliography. Typescript.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistExtensive notes and summary papers by J. Arthur Thomson on evolutionists, possibly in preparation for 'Evolution' (1912), or 'Biology' (1925), both co-written with Patrick Geddes. Includes full typescript of 'Weismann's Concessions' by American botanist and sociologist, Lester Frank Ward, 1841-1913. Among the evolutionists covered are: Theodor Eimer, J. T. Gulick, Henri Bergson, August Weismann, Lester Ward and Lloyd Morgan. Manuscript and typescript.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistManuscript.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistIncomplete. Manuscript.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistManuscript with typescript copy.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistBest 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.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologist