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Manual winnowing machine
GB 249 OM/479/2/1 · File · c 1931
Part of T. A. Miller Brownlie papers

Photographs of T. A. Miller Brownlie's improved winnowing machine, designed to ensure against loss of crop due to failure of natural wind at the harvesting season. This smaller, manually-operated version of the machine is pictured from various angles with three trays laid beside it to collect the grain.

GB 249 T-GED/19/1/3 · File · [c 1928 - 1931]
Part of Patrick Geddes papers

References to sociology; ethopolity; education; 'life and thought process'; 'the after-war relapse into peace' etc. Includes personal details of his life; account of a dream; notes on Victor Branford in relation to a memorial to him; a draft letter to the Secretary of the Carnegie University Trust, relating to the availability of four additional Research Scholarships each for £50 (1930-1931); manuscript map (mainly Europe). Also mentions many colleagues and places. Manuscript with diagrams.

GB 249 T-GED/17/7 · File · [ c 1931]
Part of Patrick Geddes papers

[These 'thinking machines' are discussed in Philip Boardman's 'The Worlds of Patrick Geddes', 1978, pp. 465-467]. Includes memo from Geddes to Williams and Norgate requesting alterations. Manuscript and typescript.

GB 249 OM/268/2/1 · File · 1931
Part of Andrew Jardine papers
  • Page of manuscript notes taken at an Evening Students' Representative Council meeting on 3 December 1931.
  • One pencil sketch and one ink sketch for the design of an Evening Students' Representative Council lapel badge. The ink sketch is dated 10 December 1931, endorsed with Andrew Jardine's initials and annotated in pencil: 'Full Size'. Both sketches closely resemble a sample badge held in OJA/29.
  • Calling card of Martha R.S. Dunlop, Secretary of the Evening Students' Representative Council
GB 249 T-GED/16/1/2 · File · [c 1892 - 1930]
Part of Patrick Geddes papers

Manuscript, typescript and printed. Includes: diagram of roof of Outlook Tower showing possible arrangement of apparatus; letter from John Aitken regarding elementary classes he has been asked to take; newspaper cutting, source unknown, being a review of 'Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology' by Robert de Courcy Ward; letter from A.N.R. Goldie of the Meteorological Office.