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Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistPossibly prepared for lectures informed by the work of German naturalist Gustav Jäger, 1832– 1917. Manuscript.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistNotes detailing the process of karyokinesis and laws of cell division. Manuscript.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistBased partly on monographs by German botanists Albert Bernhard Frank, 1839 - 1900, and Wilhelm [Friedrich Philipp] Pfeffer, 1845 - 1920. Manuscript.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistNotes 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, zoologistManuscript.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistPossibly relating to a joint publication with Patrick Geddes. Manuscript.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistIncludes draft of a review or article based on John Middleton Murray's God, Being an Introduction to the Science of Metabiology (1929). Manuscript.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistDiscusses his reply to publishers, Walter Scott Publishing Company, on the failure to uphold the agreement in the decade since the edition of The Evolution of Sex was published, and a denial of Frederick J. Crowest's claim of leftover stock as reason for not paying royalties. Expresses his desire to 'get away from this firm altogether'.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistDiscusses the revised edition of The Evolution of Sex and enquires if Geddes can create an envoi entitled "Sex in Evolution" to present to the publishers.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistPublication of Geddes's papers.
Suggests that if a volume of Patrick Geddes's sociological papers is to be published, such material as McGregor already has should be used for an essay entitled 'His Conception of Sociology'.
With 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.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistRegarding the book's preface.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistIn Switzerland working on the 'World Institute'. His doubts about co-writing a book on sex. Mention of Langdon Davies, publisher.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologistThe 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.
Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933, Knight, zoologist