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On science and industrial progress; nature studies; the Nature Study Movement; regional surveys; civics; the drift of science; classification of the sciences; notations; catacombs; economics; ethics. Reference to Robert Flint's 'Philosophy as Scientia Scientiarum and a History of Classification of the Sciences'. Mention of [Charles] Renouvier. Manuscript with diagrams.

Includes charts showing the transition from 'Imperial IX' to 'Progressive 9'; and a jotter with notes on the classification of biology. Manuscript and typescript.

Possibly relating to Geddes and Branford's proposed institute of synthetic studies. Topics include: classification of the sciences; life notation; religion and the Church; neo-politics; 'present world - ideal world'. Mentions [Rudolf Hermann] Lotze. Some notes written on the reverse of a copy of Geddes's application to the S[cottish] E[ducation] D[epartment] for the directorship of the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, 4 March 1903. Manuscript and typescript with diagrams.

Relating to the classification of the sciences; classification of K[nowled]g[e]; life notations; life theory; synthesis; 'The Two Problems of Ph[ylogen]y conceived as an Interpretation of Real Existence'; 'evolution of species'; thinking machines. Also includes diagrams endorsed 'End papers', possibly for 'Life: Outlines of General Biology'. Reference to [Herbert] Spencer; [Ludwig Andreas] Feuerbach; G[ustav] T[heodor] Fechner; Dr. Eder; [Rabindranath] Tagore; [Paul] Otlet; [Honoré de] Balzac, H[arold Hart] Mann. Manuscript with diagrams.

Includes references to the Decadents, the Symbolists and Iconography, with mention of [Oscar Wilde], Zarathustra, [Emile] Zola, [Dante Gabriel] Rossetti and William Sharp. Manuscript.

Reference to economics and ethics. Manuscript with diagrams.

Two versions. Manuscript.

Printed from various sources.

'Artificial Reseau Photospherique' by the Rev. Arthur East.
'Photographs of the Nebulae M8 Sagittarii etc.' by Isaac Roberts.
'Astronomy without a telescope' by E. Walter Maunder.
'Chemical Evolution: a chapter of History' by G. Cecil Fry.

Manuscript and printed.

Subjects include: biological collaborators; national characteristics; his circle of friends and business associates; notes based on LIF/RSA scheme; transition from LIF to NGE; the organisation of botanical studies. Manuscript.

Manuscript.

Manuscript.

Printed, with manuscript endorsements.