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

Manuscript.

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.

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On reverse of notepaper for Summer Meeting at King’s College, July 12-31 (no year mentioned).

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Relating to reconstruction, city and town planning (which Geddes believes complements the tasks of the peace movement), 'Hague resolutions' [from the International Conference of Women, The Netherlands, April 1915, [see T-TYR 1/6 [https://www.ica-atom.org/strathclyde/folder-enclosing-correspondence-and-miscellaneous-notes-mostly-related-to-peace-activities-during-world-war-1%3bisad]]. Manuscript. 2 documents, one incomplete.

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.

Topics include: history, literature, philosophers and librarians, mythology, subjective-synthetic, synthetics and synergies, classification of the sciences.
Manuscript.

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On localisation and communities. Mention of Elberfield in Edinburgh and of John Ruskin's Fors Clavigera. Manuscript.

Letter from Patrick Geddes at Dunfermline to Mrs C.H. Grinling, an early Fabian socialist activist and editor and publisher of the 'Woolwich Pioneer' newspaper, discussing Geddes' Dunfermline town plan and his approach to town planning in general. Alludes to Andrew Carnegie and refers briefly to Paul Desjardin.

Invitation to an 'At Home' from Patrick Geddes at London to Mr and Mrs C.H.Grinling.

Bundle of 9 files, containing 189 ff. Contains a range of photographic prints, plans and illustrations which were commissioned or drawn by Patrick Geddes during his survey of Dunfermline or included in the 1904 report 'City Development: a study of parks, gardens and culture-institutes' which was commissioned by the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust. Geddes' proposals were never adopted by the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust but the report is considered to be one of Geddes' most influential early urban planning works.

Copy illustrations, plans, sections and elevations of proposed new structures or proposed revised structures to be situated in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline. These are included as illustrations in Geddes' report to the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, 'City Development: a study of parks, gardens and culture-institutes', (1904).

Copy photographic prints relating to Dunfermline, created by James Norval as a commission from Patrick Geddes as part of his survey of Dunfermline. The images appear in Geddes' report to the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust 'City Development: a study of parks, gardens and culture-institutes' (1904). The images are marked up with proposed dimensions and re-touching notes in Geddes' handwriting.