Reprinted from 'Natural Science', Vol. 2. No. 14. Printed
Zonder titelSeeks help from Patrick Geddes in securing authors, asks to secure the 'Evolution of Cities' or an 'Introduction to Sociology' in conjunction with Victor Branford. Mentions enclosures sent to MacDougall and discusses a situation involving lawyers and children.
Zonder titelPublication 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.
Zonder titelManuscript, 8 pp. and typescript, 1 p.
Zonder titelThomson Lectures, Free Church College Aberdeen. 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 titelFrom 'Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh' and read on 21 January 1889. Printed. Pages numbered 91-116. Extensively annotated by hand in pencil.
Zonder titelPrinted, with manuscript additions and corrections, pp. 1-65, 69-72. Incomplete. With illustrations.
Zonder titelAttached, a manuscript poem by Thomson entitled 'Darwin in Doggerel'. Printed (1 p.) and manuscript (2 pp.).
Zonder titelDiscusses 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.
Zonder titelDiscusses 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'.
Zonder titelEnquiry about the possibility of Patrick Geddes being able to lecture at a conference on Public Morals 'with particular reference to sex-problems'.
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