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Sending him proof of papers, including one by Mr. Ratcliffe. Suggestion for an exhibition by Alasdair Geddes about war. [John] Ross and [ ] Berrington are working on 'the emergency exhibition'. Business involving [ ] Robinson, [ ] Ford, Lady Aberdeen and [ ] Nolan. Alasdair's literary promise.

Typescript.

Explains his ideas for an 'academic banking scheme'. Includes typescript copy and related diagram.

Encloses letter from Mackintosh [not extant], advises that he has received the letter from Mackintosh subsequent to Geddes' lecture at the South Place Institute.

Bartholomew has asked Branford to produce a chart by the Spring, showing chronological racial evolution. Branford states he is having difficulty expressing diagrammatically all that Bartholomew wants. His desire not to lose this opportunity of advertising Geddes's 'diagrammatic historic method'. He is also working on an economic and historical bibliography, and on the Eastern Question, showing the 'historic degeneration of the Turks'. Agrees with Geddes that military energies should be directed to engineering. Comments on 'the Grassmarket at 11 p. m.'

A paper read at a meeting of the London Economic Club by V. Branford.

Diagrams and notes on the evolution of societies; inheritance; variation; and the classification of the sciences. Manuscript.

Typescript.

Discusses Geddes' recommended corrections to a paper that Branford has written and which he accepts, including the substitution of 'formalist' for 'ceremonialist'. Refers to a special committee meeting of the Sociological Society in relation to Herbert Spencer.

'The Arts in Relation to Applied Sociology'
'V.V B. May 9 1903'

'Sociological Diagrams' endorsed on the reverse in manuscript in pencil.

Reprinted from The University Review, December 1905, pp. 243-54, and January 1906, pp. 329-44.

Manuscript.

Reply to GB 249 T-GED 9/820/2 [https://www.ica-atom.org/strathclyde/copy-letter-from-patrick-geddes-to-victor-branford;isad].
A discussion of the problems inherent in the proposed revitalisation of the country of Paraguay and its railway, and asking for financial aid to counter the policy of some who would like minimal development and quick dividends.