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Manuscript, 8 pp. and typescript, 1 p.

With reference to J. Stuart-Glennie and his resolve to 'raise an action against Professor Ramsay here for slander', over a matter of a lost manuscript, if he does not obtain Gifford lectureship in Edinburgh. Thomson feels it would be 'unwise, futile and unworthy'. Asks Geddes to write to Stuart-Glennie and give him advice.

Printed.

Endorsed 'Nat[ural] Sci[ence] - Jan 98'. Pages numbered 21-26. Printed.

Returning 'Nature's Method in the Evolution of Life' by [Thomas] Barclay, with some notes. Manuscript and typescript.

Read before the Scottish Microscopical Society. Pages numbered 130-144. Printed.

Reprinted from 'Natural Science', Vol. 2. No. 14. Printed

Thomson Lectures, Free Church College Aberdeen. Printed.

Notes on defining and describing evolution. Manuscript.

Incomplete. Discussion of sex, answering queries posited by [ ] Wallace, a Weismannite who does not believe in [Jean Baptiste] Lamarck's views. The Stewarts are going to Australia for Ella's health.

Topics of lectures include: 'Making of seeds', 'Scattering of seeds', 'Life of seeds', 'Chemistry of seeds' and related questions [by J. A. Thomson]. Manuscript.

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

Printed.

From 'Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh' and read on 21 January 1889. Printed. Pages numbered 91-116. Extensively annotated by hand in pencil.