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Discusses progress of a joint forthcoming publication [probably The Evolution of Sex, 1889, in collaboration with J. Arthur Thomson]. Thomson highlights his recent articles in the Leader. Reference to [ ] McNab. Incomplete.

Typescript. 2 copies.

Manuscript.

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.

Endorsed 'Psychol[ogy]', and initialled 'J. A. T.' [J. Arthur Thomson]. Typescript.

Discusses plans, costs and photographs for a publication project [probably the forthcoming publication of The Evolution of Sex, in collaboration with J. Arthur Thomson]. Reference to Mr. Ellis and Mr. Pairman. Incomplete.

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

Manuscript.

Endorsed 'Address'. Manuscript.

Manuscript. Incomplete.

Includes chapter layouts: Biology - Botany: general 340-638; Evolution, natural selection and reproduction 639-726; Eugenics 727-732; Psychology 733-771; Nature study 772-789; Gardens 790-833; Dunfermline and Dundee naturalists' societies 834-840; Miscellanea 841-855; and Biology - botany: general [unnumbered]. Manuscript and typescript. Numbered pages.

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

Paginated a-c. Manuscript.

Manuscript. Paginated.

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.