The Author's Response to the anticipated Suspicion that he attaches a superstitious or fanciful importance to the number three, and forces Divisions to a Procrustean Bed of Trichotomy
Manuscript Metadata
Resource ID
29646
Access
Open
Contributed by
Frederik Wellmann
type of material
A. MS.
description
Published, in part, as 1.568-572. Unpublished (pp. 11-20): The classification of the animal world is continued. CSP's admission of his slight acquaintance with zoology and, in spite of his study of classification under Agassiz for six months (1860), his "incapacity" for this kind of work. An examination of Huxley's classification of fish. Also unpublished (pp. R9.1-9.8): Artificial things are classified, with a view toward establishing trichotomies.
general index
Agassiz Louis, Categories, biological Classification, Huxley Thomas H., Thirdness, Zoology
pagination
pp. 1-20, with 2 pp. of variants plus 10 pp. of an untitled earlier draft (9/11/10)
Date
1919~
number
MS0902_013
abbreviated title
(R)
date (Robin)
c. 1919
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