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A press review by J. Arthur Thomson, by unspecified journal.

Printed, with manuscript additions and corrections, pp. 1-65, 69-72. Incomplete. With illustrations.

Thomson Lectures, Free Church College Aberdeen. Printed.

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.

Manuscript.

Manuscript.

Notes on the cell; cell structure; protoplasm; chlorophyll; and starch. Manuscript.

Lecture notes on central work by pioneering American zoologist, geneticist, and cell biologist, Edmund Beecher Wilson, 1856 – 1939. Signed. Manuscript.

Giving a synopsis of 'La Chimie de la Cellule Vivante' by Professor Armand Gautier. Pages numbered 1-5 A and B. Manuscript.

Manuscript.

Paginated 1-5. Manuscript.

Paginated a-b. Manuscript.

Pages numbered 12,13. Manuscript.

Paginated. Manuscript.

Lecture 3 on 'what the Darwinian ‘[theory] has cleared up'. Lecture IV giving a 'summary of Darwinism' and a list of his fellow-workers, i.e. Alfred Russell Wallace, British naturalist, 1823-1913; Herbert Spencer, English evolutionary philosopher, 1820-1903; Ernst [Heinrich] Haeckel, German naturalist, 1834-1919; and Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, 1825-1895. Lecture V on 'Darwinism and its critics': i.e. Asa Gray, American botanist, 1810-1888; Karl Wilhelm von Nageli, 1817- 1865; Herbert Spencer and Theodor Eimer. Pages numbered 13-18. Manuscript.