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The Sociological Review, contents page and pp. 108-119. Vol. XIX. No. 2. April 1927.

Relating to relationships between biology and psychology, biopsychosis and psychobiosis, biotics, evolution, place/work/folk.

Mention of [August] Weismann, [Charles] Darwin and [Jean Baptiste] Lamarck.

Manuscript

From The Sociological Review, pp. 40-63. Vol. [ ]. January 1927.

Attached: notes by [Jaqueline Tyrwhitt] on 'The Charting of Life'. Manuscript.

Illustrations by Hendrik Willem Van Loon.

'A Schoolboy's Bag and a City's Pageant' by Patrick Geddes. Survey. Vol. 53. pp. 525-529, 553-554. With an introduction: 'Who Is Patrick Geddes?' by Lewis Mumford. Survey. Vol. 53. pp 523-524. 1 February 1925.

'Cities, and the Soils They Grow From' by Patrick Geddes. Survey. Vol. 54. pp. 40-44. 1925.

'The Valley Plan of Civilisation' by Patrick Geddes. Survey. Vol. 54. pp. 288-290, 322-325. June 1925.

'The Valley in the Town' by Patrick Geddes. Survey. Vol. 54. pp. 396-400, 415-[16], 1925.

'The Education of Two Boys' by Patrick Geddes. Survey. Vol. [54], pp. 571-575, 587-590. 1 February 1925.

Mention of Aristotle, Bacon, Comte, Spencer, Kant and Plato.

Manuscript.

For the [Sociological Review]. Typescript with manuscript annotations.

Discusses the proposed Northern College.

'City of Colombo'

Two copies of a map of the City of Colombo, differently annotated.

Scale: 1 inch to 16 chains

'Published under the direction of W. C. S. Ingles [... ] Surveyor General, Ceylon'

Discusses the scientific methods of Ferdinand Schiller and John Stuart Mill.

Comparing and contrasting Western and Eastern (especially Indian) culture and education. Mention of: Town and Gown Association; Masques of Learning; Indian students in Edinburgh; Tagore; Bose; Sir Atul Chatterjee; Sir Michael Sadler; Dr. [Ananda Kentish] Coomaraswamy; Mr. [Ernest] Havell; the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition in Bombay and Patrick Geddes' surveys in India (Bombay, Poona, Surat, Broach, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Ajmere, Amber, Jaipur, Muttra, Delhis, Agra, Cawnpore, Lucknow and Allahabad). Typescript with manuscript annotations.

Note by Patrick Geddes regarding introductions in Athens, refers to Miss Trikoupis, sister of late prime minister Charilaos Trikoupis.

A Pageant of Education from Primitive to Celtic Times. 6th Edition. London: Sociological Publications Ltd. Edinburgh: Patrick Geddes and Colleagues. Bombay & Karachi: The Modern Publishing Co.

Relating to place/work/folk.

On reverse, several small diagrams, including swastikas and a valley section.

Paper read before the Civics Group of the Sociological Society, 19 November 1914.

Endorsed by [Patrick Geddes] 'Keep. P. G.' and endorsed by [Jaqueline Tyrwhitt] 'J. Tyrwhitt'. Heavily annotated in unknown script.

Ramsay Gardens. Setting out Geddes's negotiations with Mr and Lady Steele regarding the price of purchasing Mr Steele's annuity. Refers to his employment of Mr James Slater as an independent and impartial expert to value the property. Includes a note to advise that Geddes will incur additional costs due the architects instruction to have an engineer sink special foundations and abandoning plans to erect studios upon a portion of the ground. Includes mention of Messrs Condie & Co., and the Royal Scottish Academy.