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GB 249 T-GED/1/1/3/3 · Piece · 24 October 1910
Part of Patrick Geddes papers

Outlines 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.

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GB 249 T-GED/9/17 · Stuk · 5 December 1887
Part of Patrick Geddes papers

The pursuit of knowledge. Criticism of 'Vestiges' - the progress of man, (with a thought diagram), mentioning the theories of Weismann, Darwin, Oliphant, Fiske and Miss Buckly and stressing his belief in the importance of the reproductive factor. Commentary on disestablishment of the church. The Duke of Argyll's attack on natural selection: he is 'tolerably far gone in muddleheadedness'. Reference to Fothergill, Erasmus, [Jean Baptiste] Lamarck, Robert Chambers and Thomas Huxley.

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GB 249 T-GED/18/1/247 · Stuk · 29 August 1905
Part of Patrick Geddes papers

Notes 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.

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