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Incomplete. With annotated copy. Typescript and manuscript.

Includes list of instructions to an assistant regarding items to be purchased and the organisation of the laboratory. Manuscript.

Several notes endorsed 'RBG' [Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh]. Manuscript.

Includes a report on the Annual General Meeting of the Association of Technical Institutions.

Acknowledges reciept of letter. Expresses sympathy about the accident at Darjeeling & subsequent illness. Proposed establishment of Department of Sociology at University of Bombay. Author's review of Geddes's 'Indore Report on the University'. Requests his opinion on European situation post First World War. Mann analyses the situation in terms of a 'fight almost to the death between man and property'. Anticipates Geddes' 'Essentials of Sociology in relation to Economics'. Details of famine in India in 1919.

Personal news. Mention of Theodore Whitmarsh, Herbert Hoover and Stephen Harris; also Dhan Gopal Mukerji and his new play Dream of Kalidasa at the Princes Theatre, New York. Asks for a Scot to help establish home-spun weaving in the Catskills. Attributes Alberta's sudden good health to Christian Science.

Note on reverse from HGM

Reference to Raymond Unwin and Royal Institute of British Architects in relation to 'plans'. Under heading 'Social Finance', Ross says that after discussions with Victor Branford, they have 'sufficient suggestions to form the framework of a book'. Will submit some ideas for Geddes's comments.

Personal with references to Miss [Mabel] Barker and [Edward] McGegan.

With reference to Sociological Review and some of Geddes's articles in it, especially 'Report to the Durbar of Indore'. More general comments on Geddes's town planning and restoration work in India.

Unspecified business. Mention of Mrs. Davies, [ ] Bryce, [ ] Gardiner,
[ ] Massingham, [ ] Merinson, [ ] Addison. Incomplete.

Enclosing printed copy of Senate Agenda giving terms of Patrick Geddes's prospective appointment as Professor of Sociology.

With reference to Geddes's candidature for Chair of Civics and Sociology at Bombay University. Reference to article by Geddes in Sociological Review about his Report to the Durbar of Indore.

Congratulates Geddes on the 'New Jerusalem Undertaking'. Asks Geddes to contribute to a journal called The King's Highway. Incomplete.

Reference to: his wife's illness; his hopes to come to the University of Bombay to work with Geddes; the newly formed Civic Education League, replacing the C[ivic] & M[oral] E[ducation] L[eague] and the Liberal Personal Service Association. Mention of the Sociological Society and the Regional Associations; post War disillusionment; the National Democratic Party and regional education in Wales.

With reference to Ghurye's application for a grant for overseas research in Sociology. Reference to Patrick Geddes.