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AMT/C/24
Folder inscribed, 'Morphogens. Turing I'. With MS note by Gandy, ' This contains consecutive pieces which were not incorporated by Hoskin and Richards in their paper'. Includes, among other unidentified pages:-
- 'Outline of the development of the daisy'. Includes sections on 'Considerations governing the choice of parameter' and 'Early stages in pattern formation'. Numbered by R.O. Gandy
- worked example of the theory in Morphogen theory of phyllotaxis II, showing how orthogonal eigenfunctions can be chosen for a linear model of diffusion between four discrete cells arranged as three satellites around a central cell
- '13 Stationary waves in continuous tissue and abstract space'
- 'Forced waves'
- 'discarded FIRSTART values'
- '4. The equations applied to a plane'
- 'Effect of quadratic terms'
- Substantial set of drafts and calculations, with [? Hoskin's] separate page heading, 'Stability and approximations'
- 'Hex stability with different values of ?'
- 'Damping due to the J term'
- draft of 'solvable and unsolvable problems' (Penguin Science News 31, 1954)
- 'Lattice solutions and their stability'
- 'Fig X': a nomogram.
Keywords: 'Effect of quadratic terms'; Morphogenesis; 'Morphogens. Turing I'; 'Outline of development of the daisy'; 'Stability and approximations'
Provenance: received from N.E. Hoskin in 1978
Copyright: Copyright © P.N. Furbank

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