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Manuscript, 8 pp. and typescript, 1 p.

Manuscript.

Possibly prepared for lectures informed by the work of German naturalist Gustav Jäger, 1832– 1917. Manuscript.

Notes detailing the process of karyokinesis and laws of cell division. Manuscript.

Based partly on monographs by German botanists Albert Bernhard Frank, 1839 - 1900, and Wilhelm [Friedrich Philipp] Pfeffer, 1845 - 1920. Manuscript.

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.

Possibly relating to a joint publication with Patrick Geddes. Manuscript.

Includes draft of a review or article based on John Middleton Murray's God, Being an Introduction to the Science of Metabiology (1929). Manuscript.

Concerning proposed collaboration on book on 'The Principles of Biology'.

Discusses 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'.

Discusses 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.

Publication 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.

Regarding the book's preface.