Possibly relating to a joint publication with Patrick Geddes. Manuscript.
Sans titreA press review by J. Arthur Thomson, by unspecified journal.
Sans titreReprinted from Popular Science Monthly.
Sans titreHe is glad the Town and Gown problem has been solved; agrees to transfer his advance into investment in debentures.
Sans titreWith reference to Universities and Colleges Exhibition.
Sans titreEnquiry about the possibility of Patrick Geddes being able to lecture at a conference on Public Morals 'with particular reference to sex-problems'.
Sans titreDiscusses 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'.
Sans titreDiscusses 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.
Sans titreThe 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.
Sans titreWith 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.
Sans titrePublication 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'.
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.
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