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From the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Vol. XI. Read 21 March, 4 April and 2 May 1881.

Endorsed: '1881' and 'J. Tyrwhitt'.

Showing Olympus and an industrial town, and relating to theological Olympus, war, individual progress, politics, science and industry (paleotechnic).

Mention of university renewal in Calcutta and Dacca, and proposals for the University of Jerusalem. Typescript.

Manuscript.

Showing the different classifications of occupations under the headings ‘Postman (Conventional)’; ‘Child (Dramatic)’; and ‘Sociologist (Evolutionary)’.

Comparative analysis of universities in the West and East (Japan, India and Palestine). Mention of the International Conference on University Progress and resolutions from the International Educational Conference [Edinburgh].
Typescript.

An address to the University Extension Students' Guild, University of London, South Kensington, February 1906. Reprinted from The University Review, July 1906.

Endorsed: '1906' and 'J. Tyrwhitt'.

Manuscript.

Autobiographical, and relating to education in Paris. Mention of [Thomas] Huxley, [Yves] Delage, Lavisse, Lacaze, [Louis] Pasteur, the national library of France, the Sorbonne, the Comedie Française, the Odeon, Sarah Bernhardt [Henriette Rosine Bernard], the Louvre, the Salon, the Conservatoire, the Opera and the Jardin des Plantes. Discussion of morality and various cities. Typescript with manuscript amendments.

Published by Patrick Geddes & Colleagues, The Outlook Tower, Castlehill, Edinburgh'.

Relating to Meduso, Gorgono, and ~Polis.

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

Manuscript

Reprinted from the Sociological Review, January 1908.

Branford's descriptions of a visit to Rome, especially the new University City (Citta Universitaria) in Rome and the possibility of establishing a Sociological Institute there. Also mention of a new fruit and vegetable market; an agricultural co-operative bank; a working class quarter in the style of a garden-city; textile factories; the transformation of a street into an incipient 'Rue des Nations'; the Pincian gardens; Villa Medici; Ludovisi Quarter; International Institute of Agriculture; Mussolini; fascism in Italy; St. Peter's cathedral. Branford plans to use these observations in a lecture on 'Incipient Rome and its Region'. He suggests a town planning exhibition in Rome would be a modest beginning to 'a sociological mission to the Fascists'. Typescript with manuscript annotations.
La Colline, Territet, Switzerland.