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Topics of lectures include: 'Making of seeds', 'Scattering of seeds', 'Life of seeds', 'Chemistry of seeds' and related questions [by J. A. Thomson]. Manuscript.

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Extensive 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.

Incomplete. Manuscript.

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Notes detailing the process of karyokinesis and laws of cell division. Manuscript.

Describing its chemistry, formation, distribution, life-history, movements, functions in the plant, physiology, and decomposition products. Also notes on pigments. Manuscript.

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Includes sections on: 'vitality of seedlings'; 'germination'; 'physiology of germination'; 'the swelling tissue of seeds'; 'the absorption of organic material' and some related questions. Manuscript.

Possibly prepared for lectures informed by the work of German naturalist Gustav Jäger, 1832– 1917. Manuscript.

Comprising 'general ideas to be borne in mind restating the Evolution Theory'. Manuscript.