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Thomson, John Arthur

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Thomson, John Arthur (1861–1933)

Scottish naturalist and author of biological texts.

A sometime lecturer in zoology and biology in the School of Medicine, Edinburgh, he was also regius professor of natural history at Aberdeen, 1899–1920. He is the author of: Study of Animal Life (1892), Herbert Spencer (1906), Darwinism and Human Life (1910; revised 1916), Biology of Birds (1923), Science and Religion (1925), Outline of Biology (1930), Biology for Everyman (1934). He was knighted in 1930.

He was born in East Lothian; educated at the universities of Edinburgh, Jena, and Berlin.



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