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1.D'Arcy Thompson, On Growth and Form, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press, 1942) p1096–7. Referred to as OG&F in future references.
2.Stephen Jay Gould in his introduction to On Growth and Form (Canto edition 1992) p. ix.
3.Parts of this essay are drawn from various other works by the author, most notably Matthew Jarron and Cathy Caudwell, D'Arcy Thompson and his Zoology Museum in Dundee (University of Dundee Museum Services, 2010).
4.From MS of BBC lecture broadcast 1/5/1960 (University of Dundee Archive Services, URSF 2/12/3(14)).
5.Mrs A H Harris, MS of undated talk ‘An Aristocrat of Learning’ (University of St Andrews Library Special Collections, MS 50166/1).
6.Address delivered at the opening of session 1903–4, quoted in The College December 1903 p. 9.
7.Address delivered at the opening of session 1903–4, quoted in The College December 1903 p. 7–8.
8.Address delivered at the opening of session 1903–4, quoted in The College December 1903 p. 9.
9.Letter to Mary Lily Walker 18/10/1889 (University of St Andrews Library Special Collections MS 44464).
10.Ruth D'Arcy Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson: The Scholar-Naturalist (Oxford University Press, 1958) p89–90. Referred to as ScholarNaturalist in future references.
11.Ibid p161.
12.D'Arcy Thompson, ‘Magnalia Naturae; or The Greater Problems of Biology’, Science vol 34 Issue 875, pp. 417–428.
13.Letter to D'Arcy Thompson from Cambridge University Press 25/5/1915 (University of St Andrews Library Special Collections MS 42523).
14.Letter from D'Arcy Thompson to Cambridge University Press 15/11/1917 (University of St Andrews Library Special Collections MS 42633).
15.Nature 13/9/1917.
16.Nature 30/8/1894.
17.Scholar-Naturalist p. 161–2.
18.OG&F p. 1095.
19.OG&F p. 1053.
20.D'Arcy Thompson, ‘Magnalia Naturae; or The Greater Problems of Biology’, Science vol 34 Issue 875, pp. 417–428.
21.OG&F p. 10.
22.OG&F p. 6.
23.OG&F p. 4.
24.Letter to Mary Lily Walker 25/5/1898 (University of St Andrews Library Special Collections MS 44609).
25.OG&F p. 13.
26.Three of these models are still held in the D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, University of Dundee.
27.OG&F p. 751.
28.OG&F p. 931.
29.OG&F p. 1080.
30.OG&F p. 1097
31.From MS of BBC lecture broadcast 1/5/1960 (University of Dundee Archive Services, URSF 2/12/3(14)).
32.Alan Turing, ‘The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 237 (1952) pp. 37–72.
33.James D Murray, ‘How the Leopard Gets its Spots’, Scientific American, 256, 3 (1988) pp. 80–87.
34.OG&F p. 1030.
35.Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1996) p. 200.
36.Personal communication with author, 2011.
37.Dawkins included an extract from On Growth and Form in his Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (Oxford University Press 2008), noting the influence it had had on his work.
38.Personal communication with author, 2011.
39.OG&F p. 2.
40.David Cohen, ‘Who's Afraid of Henry Moore?’ in Dorothy Kosinski (ed), Henry Moore — Sculpting the 20th Century, Yale University Press 2001, p. 264.
41.From an interview in 2003 by Hans-Ulrich Obrist in Tate Magazine issue 4 at http://www.tate.org.uk/magazine/issue4/popdaddy.htm.
42.A notable example of this is Andy Lomas, who has created digital effects for Avatar and the Matrix films while also exhibiting his algorithm- derived art prints in galleries, citing D'Arcy as his key influence.
43.Personal communication with author, 2011.
44.Letter from Herbert Read to D'Arcy Thompson, undated but probably 1944 (University of St Andrews Library Special Collections MS 25480).
45.Letter from Patrick Geddes to D'Arcy Thompson 25/1/1896 (University of St Andrews Library Special Collections MS 16359).
46.OG&F p. 392.