| Description | With note identifying the correspondent
/1 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to E. W. MacBride, dated 4 March 1927. Lodge thanks MacBride for telling him about the frog's eggs and dirty needle; he wonders whether the introduction of any alien cell might stimulate nucleus division. He wants to interest students in unorthodox experiences.
/2 Letter from E. W. MacBride to Oliver Lodge, written from 43 Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea, dated 17 March 1927. MacBride praises Lodge's address at Imperial College. He writes that students are interested in questions such as the afterlife when they are addressed frankly and fearlessly. He explains the process of nucleus division when stimulated by a sterilised needle and a bloodied needle, with a small diagram in text.
/3 Letter from E. W. MacBride to Oliver Lodge, written from 'Britannia', Harlech, Wales, dated 18 August 1928. MacBride will let Lodge know what he thinks of Geley's 'From the unconscious to the conscious'. He describes the metamorphosis of insects and states: 'there is nothing in principle different from what occurs in the growth of other animals'.
/4 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to E. W. MacBride, dated 20 August 1928. Lodge thanks MacBride for his letter and writes: 'there is so much in the physics of biology that I should like to understand that I feel almost hopeless about it, and must leave it to the younger generation'.
/5 Letter from E. W. MacBride to Oliver Lodge, written from Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, London, dated 24 June 1929. MacBride explains how '[d]eficiency of fingers in a baby' occurs and writes that the trait is unlikely to be inherited.
/6 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to E. W. MacBride, dated 29 June 1931. Lodge responds to MacBride's paper in 'Nature' by discussing the process of evolution and the mechanism of heredity.
/7 Letter from E. W. MacBride to Oliver Lodge, written from 43 Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea, dated 5 July 1931. MacBride writes about evolution and the roles of psyche and matter in forming habit.
/8 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to E. W. MacBride, dated 6 July 1931. Lodge agrees that habit is connected with the bodily organism but questions whether it has an effect on nuclei. |