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Notes on heritage and burden using a debit and credit transaction model.

Notes plotting European cities and countries, and the ideas for which Geddes thought they were renowned.

Notes listing and quantifying contacts in France, Belgium, Italy and Germany.

Correspondence relating mainly to the re-establishment of Scots College, accomodation arragements for Scottish students in Montpellier, and discussions on educational reform.

Correspondence related to the financial losses and debts incurred by the Town and Gown Association. The correspondence also covers the debt owed to Henry Beveridge and rent arrears for the Outlook Tower, and Patrick Geddes' efforts to secure a new loan.

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.

Correspondence relating to the proposed Edinburgh Summer Meeting, 1905. Manuscript.

Correspondence and newspaper cuttings on the Scottish Education Reform Conference, Edinburgh 1905. Manuscript and printed.

Copy letter of a proposed exhibition on 'occupational' education at the Outlook Tower, and drafts.

Two letters relating to the Crosby Hall Pageant Play.

Regarding the mounting of the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition by the University of London.
Also copy letters from Patrick Geddes to Charles Robert Ashbee and John Ross. Mentions Raymond Unwin and Thomas Adams. Typescript.

Reference to [W.G.] Smith and [Johannes] Warming. Manuscript with diagrams.

On 'the Eutopia of Labour'; families and heredity; women's work and their role in history; Spencer and evolution; 'Classification of Science and Arts correlated with social transition'. Also includes a list of male types and part of a letter from Victor Branford regarding a sociological study group in Chelsea, on reverse of note. References to Sir C[hristopher] Wren, [William] Willett, V[ictor] Branford, B[ertrand] Russell, Henri Bergson and Arthur Geddes. Manuscript and typescript.

Includes a library classification scheme with references to Horace Plunkett, J. A[rthur] Thomson, John Dewey, Gandhi, G[ranville] Stanley Hall, [Thorstein] Veblen; and thinking machines with reference to [Auguste] Comte, [Frédéric] Le Play and Spencer. Manuscript.

Mentions graphics; 'IX-9'; child education; occupations. Manuscript.