Includes sections on: 'vitality of seedlings'; 'germination'; 'physiology of germination'; 'the swelling tissue of seeds'; 'the absorption of organic material' and some related questions. Manuscript.
Zonder titelPossibly prepared for lectures informed by the work of German naturalist Gustav Jäger, 1832– 1917. Manuscript.
Zonder titelComprising 'general ideas to be borne in mind restating the Evolution Theory'. Manuscript.
Zonder titelPaginated 19/a-22/d. Manuscript.
Zonder titelPaper to be read before the Sociological Society, London University, by Professor J. A[rthur] Thomson. 2 copies of last page, one with manuscript additions and corrections. Printed.
Zonder titelIncomplete. Paginated 2-5. Manuscript.
Zonder titelSeries incomplete: includes introduction (2 pp.) and syllabuses for lectures ii-vi, viii (2 copies) and ix-xii. Printed.
Zonder titelReprinted from 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh', session 1885-1886, No. 5, pp. 803-823. Includes plate. Printed.
Zonder titelThe 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.
Zonder titelAttached, a manuscript poem by Thomson entitled 'Darwin in Doggerel'. Printed (1 p.) and manuscript (2 pp.).
Zonder titel.1 Letter from J. Arthur Thomson to James Oliphant (brother-in-law of Anna Geddes). Presents his views on Oliphant's article on Geddes's variation theory. 1 p.
.2 Letter from James Oliphant to J. Arthur Thomson. Oliphant is unconvinced by J. Arthur Thomson's arguments and expresses his own opinions on the matter. 4 pp., numbered.
Manuscript.
Zonder titelPrinted, with manuscript additions and corrections, pp. 1-65, 69-72. Incomplete. With illustrations.
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