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Public lecture for International Association for the Advancement of Science, Arts and Education, Glasgow International Assembly.

Annotated by Patrick Geddes.

Session XLI, 1898-1899; Session XXXIII, 1890-1891; Session XLI, 1888-1889; Session XLIII, 1900-1901.

Minutes of Executive Committee 1901, (Glasgow International Assembly) by Patrick Geddes. Manuscript.

Preliminary programme for the Second National Social and Political Conference, USA, 'How can reform be accomplished? A conference on methods'. Includes lists of members of all committees.

Invites Geddes to the Museum of Science and Art, requests manifests which were not enclosed in Geddes' previous letter to him and discusses plans for the front of Ramsay Garden with reference to the United Free Church.

Acknowledges receipt of letter of 13 November from Patrick Geddes. Advises copy letter from Professor Robert Flint enclosed [extant] regarding a 'Chair of Sociology' and offering to provide a lecture on 'history as a science'. Mention of Mr Carnegie and his friend Mr Thomas Shaw MP.

Correspondence related to the introduction of a course of Nature Study for adults and teachers, and efforts to have it included in the national syllabus. Manuscript, typescript and printed.

John Struthers expresses support for Patrick Geddes’ course on Nature Study for school teachers. Thinks Geddes’ course is rather one on ‘Principles and Methods of Education’, rather than a science course. Discusses the use of the Outlook Tower as a base for the course. Struthers has not seen Professor Jackman’s ‘Course of Study’ and asks Geddes to order him a copy.

Manuscript.