A press review by J. Arthur Thomson, by unspecified journal.
Sans titreOutlines 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.
Sans titreThe 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.
Sans titreWith 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.
Sans titreWith reference to Universities and Colleges Exhibition.
Sans titrePrinted, with manuscript additions and corrections, pp. 1-65, 69-72. Incomplete. With illustrations.
Sans titreThomson Lectures, Free Church College Aberdeen. Printed.
Sans titreNotes 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.
Sans titreNotes on the cell; cell structure; protoplasm; chlorophyll; and starch. Manuscript.
Sans titreLecture notes on central work by pioneering American zoologist, geneticist, and cell biologist, Edmund Beecher Wilson, 1856 – 1939. Signed. Manuscript.
Sans titreGiving a synopsis of 'La Chimie de la Cellule Vivante' by Professor Armand Gautier. Pages numbered 1-5 A and B. Manuscript.
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