Discussion of a preface for a forthcoming book, concerning science and theology. Mention of [John] Kelman.
Accepting invitation and asking to bring John Middleton Murray, Geoffrey Sainsbury, Sir Richard Rees and Max Plowman, who are keen to meet Patrick Geddes.
Sin títuloEvans's work on Reading Corn Prices 1800-1815, mentioning [ ] Hewins at the School of Economics and [ ] [Grinling].
Asks Geddes for his article for 'Via Vitae'. Asks him to write a biological article.
Personal, with reference to 'Wardom and Peacedom'.
Includes discussion of statics, kinetics and education. Manuscript with diagrams.
Reproduction of a painting.
'No 22 Rome. Galerie Sciarra' endorsed in bottom margin.
Sin títuloThe collection covers most periods of Geddes’s life, and nearly all of the places in which he lived and worked. It comprises correspondence, notes, pamphlets and books, photographs, maps, plans, prints and drawings, including Geddes' famous 'thinking machines'.
Sin títuloMaps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of Afghanistan, Africa, Algeria, Antarctica, Arabia, Arctic and North Pole, Asia, Australasia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, British Isles, Burma, Canada, Ceylon, China, Colombia, Congo, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Indies, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland and Greenland, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Natal, Nepal, The Netherlands, New Zealand, North America, Norway, Nyasaland Protectorate, Pacific Islands, Palestine, Panama, Persia, Poland, Polynesia, Portugal, Rhodesia, St. Helena, Scandinavia, Siam, South America, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tibet, Transjordan, Turkey, Uganda, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United States of America, West Indies, The World, Yemen and Yugoslavia, various countries and unidentified and unallocated cities, landscapes, gardens and architecture. There is also a series of ideal and speculative town planning schemes and architectural designs.
The series reflects the national-political background against which Geddes was pursuing his idea of regionalism.
This section comprises the following series:
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Topography
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Diagrams
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Patrick Geddes and contemporaries (portraits and group photographs)
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Prints, drawings and paintings
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Miscellanea
'Lodovico Pozzo invet Trevis:'
'Ioani Sadelero f. Venetia 1599'
See Hollstein, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich, Dutch and Flemish etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700 (Amsterdam: van Gendt, 1949- ), 21, p. 180, no.583.
Sin títuloOriginal prints, drawings and paintings:
Individual artists (1-44)
Anonymous and unidentified paintings (45-47)
Anonymous and unidentified Indian paintings (48-52)
Anonymous and unidentified drawings (53-57)
Anonymous and unidentified engravings (58-63)
Reproductions of prints, drawings and paintings:
Individual artists (64-170)
Various artists (171-176)
Anonymous and unidentified prints, drawings and paitings (177-207)
Anonymous and unidentified Indian paintings and prints (208-213)
Anonymous and unidentified portraits (214-220)
Anonymous and unidentified lantern slides for lecture purposes (221-238)
Anonymous and unidentified miscellanea (239-241)
Prints and illustrations of sculptures:
Individual artists (242-253)
Anonymous and unidentified (254-270)
Miscellaneous art illustrations (271-274)
Jan (Johannes) Sadeler after various authors.
Thieme, Ulrich and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (Leipzig: Engelmann, E.A. Seemann, 1907-1950) mentions a series of six engravings with emblematic illustrations after verses by Alciatus, numbers 1 and 2 are from this series.
Sin título'Ierem Wolff exud.'
'Aug. Vind[ ]'