Evolution / by Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur Thomson.

  • Patrick Geddes
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[1911?]
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Credit: Evolution / by Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    valuable uncompleted treatise on the plasticity and modifiability of the organism.] Davenport C. B.—“Statistical Methods in the Study of Variation.” 2nd Edition, 1904. [A useful introduction to biometrics. ] **-“Inheritance in Poultry.” 1906. [A fine series of experiments in breeding.] **Delage, Yves.—“L’Heredit6 et les grands problemes de la biologie gen^rale.” 1895 ; 2nd Edition, 1902. [A great book, discussing with scholarship and impartiality the chief problems of biology ; Lamarckian on the whole and against Weismann ; with a detailed bibliography.] See also an excellent short book by Delage and Goldsmidt, “ Les Theories de 1’Evolution.” 1809. Deperet, C.—The Transformations of the Animal World.” 1909. [A useful concrete study of the actual history of thejvpast.] *Doncaster, L. — “ Heredity in the light of recent Research.” 1910. [A pithy and clear introduction.] Driesch, Hans.—“ Science and Philosophy of the Organism.” Gifford Lectures in the University of Aberdeen. 2 vols., 1908. [A deep and original vindication of vitalism, diffi¬ cult for most readers ; a fine gymnasium for intellectual athletes.] Eimer, G. H. Th.—“Organic Evolution.” 1890. [Lamarckian and Goethian, with a theory of orthogenesis, or progres¬ sive variation along a definite line.] **Ewart, J. Cossar.—“ Penycuik Experiments. ” 1899. [An account of important breeding experiments bearing on hybridization, reversion, variation, etc.] “Fifty Years of Darwinism: Modern Aspects of Evolution.” Centennial addresses in honour of Charles Darwin before the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 1909. [An exceedingly interesting and valuable series of lectures on Darwinism, by numerous authorities.] ***Galton, Francis.—“Natural Inheritance.” 1889. [A classic book, applying statistical methods to the study of inheritance, and expounding important generalizations, such as Filial Regression.] Geddes, Patrick.—“Variation and Selection ” in “ Encyclo¬ paedia Britannica,” 9th Edition. “ Darwinian Theory,” “Evolution,” in “Chambers’sEncyclopaedia.” “Chapters in Modern Botany.” 1893. Geddes, P., and Thomson, J. Arthur.—“The Evolution of
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