Haldane, John Scott
- Date:
- 3 May 1930
- Reference:
- PENROSE/3/8/3
- Part of:
- L. S. Penrose Papers
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Letter to J B Leathes concerning his Gifford Lectures, the difference between vitalism and the conception of life as implying co-ordination extending to environment, attempts to purge both scientific and biological camps of materialism, a conference on "The Nature of Life" in Cape Town opened by General Smuts, and his book on heat engines which is critical of orthodox thermodynamics.
Publication/Creation
3 May 1930
Physical description
1 letter
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A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.
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Location of original
The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.