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Also includes certificate for claiming the effects of David Jardine Bruce, late seaman of H.M. Navy, by Christina Jardine Bruce, 3 June 1862.

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

On sun dials; the stars; globes; the planets; planet paths; spectrum analysis; eclipses; cosmospheres; current developments in astronomy; Celtic astronomy; and diagrams on the construction of orreries. Manuscript with diagrams.

Contains miscellaneous papers with rough notes by [Patrick Geddes]. Mentions: [Autosthenics]; Freud; Bergson; W. James; Nietzsche; various projects and schemes; various places, particularly Edinburgh; 1916 voyage; childhood thoughts and problems; old age. Includes drafts of Indian reports including Indore and [Tanjore]. Manuscript with some typescript and diagrams.

17 photographic prints, probably copies, of images taken by James Norval, a photographer operating in Dunfermline. Geddes commissioned Norval to visually document Dunfermline in its entirety as part of his survey of the town on behalf of the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust. The images were used to inform his report 'City Development: A study of parks, gardens and culture-institutes' (1904). This file of images do not appear in the final report.

Includes: small draft outline of programme and Outlook Tower Guide for an Edinburgh Winter Meeting; notice for Junior Outlook Tower Association; Outlook Tower, suggested subjects for photographs (possibly for publicity purposes). Manuscript and typescript.

Correspondence relating chiefly to the establishment of University Halls on Patrick Geddes' model in Edinburgh and London. The correspondence also covers Geddes' initiative to set up an inter-library loan service for the University Halls in Edinburgh, student accomodation for international students, university organisation schemes and the role of universities in the educational system.

Printed, with manuscript endorsements.

On 'E. M. H. O. Spiral'; 'Too good to be true'; 'Young Scots'; 'Conclusion of the whole matter'. Manuscript with diagrams.

Manuscript.

Journal of the Institute of Civil Engineers No. 2, December 1950. Printed.

Also newspaper cutting: 'Maryland to get a Levitt Project'. No date. Source unknown.

Newspaper cutting: 'Huge housing project'. No date. Source unknown.

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.