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GB 249 T-GED/18/1/714
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Lecture notes by [J. Arthur Thomson] on Darwinian theory, its advocates and critics
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7 pp.
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Lecture 3 on 'what the Darwinian ‘[theory] has cleared up'. Lecture IV giving a 'summary of Darwinism' and a list of his fellow-workers, i.e. Alfred Russell Wallace, British naturalist, 1823-1913; Herbert Spencer, English evolutionary philosopher, 1820-1903; Ernst [Heinrich] Haeckel, German naturalist, 1834-1919; and Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, 1825-1895. Lecture V on 'Darwinism and its critics': i.e. Asa Gray, American botanist, 1810-1888; Karl Wilhelm von Nageli, 1817- 1865; Herbert Spencer and Theodor Eimer. Pages numbered 13-18. Manuscript.
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