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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.

Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologist
GB 249 T-GED/18/1/247 · Item · 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.

Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologist
GB 249 T-GED/18/1/286 · Item · [c. 1912-1925]
Part of Patrick Geddes papers

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.

Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologist
GB 249 T-GED/18/1/317 · Item · 1925
Part of Patrick Geddes papers

Best 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