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Includes: weather reports; a pamphlet by H.R. Mill on 'Observations of the Rainband from June 1882 to January 1883'. From the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1882-83, pp. 41-56; articles: ‘Long Waves of Winter Weather' by A.B. MacDowall; 'Microscopy' by J.H. Cooke; and 'Notes on Comets and Meteors' by W.F. Denning. All from Knowledge. 1 February 1900.

Possibly used as hand-outs at lectures. Manuscript copies.

Includes: an invitation to Professor and Mrs. Geddes from Mr. and Mrs. John Brown to inspect St. Ellen's Works, Edenderry (Damask and Linen Weaving) and Longhurst physical and electrical laboratory; Mrs. T. Brown-Murdoch; Edinburgh Academy; His Highness the Gaekwar; Dr. A.W. George; Jamini Kanta Koar; Henri Mazel (9 July 1916); Mr. H. Victor Rabagliati. Printed with some manuscript.

Printed, manuscript and typescript. Includes:

• Pamphlet relating to the Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, and a Shakespeare Festival, under the direction of F.R. Benson. 1912.
• Letter to Patrick Geddes mentioning a season of Shakespearean plays by F.R. Benson and his company at the Coronet Theatre, London. 20 November 1912.
• Programme, with cast list: The Passing of the Third Floor Back by Jerome K. Jerome at Terry's Theatre.
• Cutting showing illustration of Sir Lumley Skeffington.
• Notice and subscription form of the Eager Heart Company; manuscript note on mystery plays.
• 'Thinking machine' based on the swastika and incorporating Art and Law.

Topics mentioned include: town planning; medicine; sex; the sciences; archaeology; education; life theory; economics; biology; botany; photosynthesis; ethics; evolution; peace and war; art; geotechnics; the slave trade; and Germany. Also references to: V[ictor] B[ranford]; J. Arthur Thomson; Rabindranath Tagore and [Wilhelm] Liebknecht. Manuscript.

Includes:

• Plan of University Hall of Residence and Crosby Hall, Chelsea.
• Pamphlet: 'Residential Flats'.
• Pamphlet: 'Proposed Hall of Residence for Women in London'.

Bundle of papers, chiefly correspondence, relating to the University and City Association of London and Crosby Hall, Chelsea. Manuscript, typescript and printed.

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.

The Rev. Samuel A. Martin; Norman McDougall; the Rev. R.C. Bodkin; Mr. and Mrs. Ross; Rev. F.J. Foakes Jackson and Mr. J. Henry Stanford-Szewlinski. Also, a business card of Preston W. Search and a card from Henri Bergson introducing Patrick Geddes to M.G. de Reynold. (7 October 1923). Printed with manuscript endorsements.

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

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

On: the 'Six dramas' and the hexagonal ring; place, work, folk; education; peace and war; proverbs; Solomon; the living past and incipient future. Manuscript with diagrams.

Apparently for a lecture about the work of W.D. Lang and C.P. [Chalwin] on recent advances in [auxology] defined as 'the science of growth stages'. Discussing inter alia: globe; Scots College, University Halls [Chelsea and Edinburgh]; [ ] Gillick and Utopias. Manuscript.

Mentions epistemology; sociology; Crosby Hall, London. Includes various rhymes. Manuscript with diagrams.