Haldane, John Scott

Date:
3 May 1930
Reference:
PENROSE/3/8/3
Part of:
L. S. Penrose Papers
  • Archives and manuscripts

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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.

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3 May 1930

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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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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.

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