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Patrick Geddes wishes to apply for leave of absence from his duties as professor of Botany for the coming summer session. His intention is to gather an international team of town-planners to help reconstruct the destroyed cities of Belgium after military attacks. Mentions A. Francis, the Head of Local and Municipal Departments for the Presidency of Madras.

Autobiographical, and relating to biology and botany, nature study, town planning in Edinburgh, Outlook Tower, Summer Meetings and regional and city survey. Mention of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Linnaeus, Humboldt, [Charles] Darwin, Gottfried Wilhelm] Leibnitz, [René] Descartes, [Emmanuel] Kant and [Henri] Bergson. Typescript with manuscript amendments.

7 copy photographic prints relating to Dunfermline, marked up with order dimensions and re-touching notes. These images were undertaken by James Norval, as a commission from Patrick Geddes as part of his survey of Dunfermline. The survey informed his report to the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust 'City Development: a study of parks, gardens and culture-institutes' (1904). These images appear in the final report. The images are held on fine thin paper.

Copy photographs and illustration relating to Dunfermline, which appear in Patrick Geddes' 1904 report to the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust 'City Development: a study of parks, gardens and culture-institutes'.

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.

Copy photographic prints of a row of modern villas at Dundee, designed for college use, showing before and after images, the latter demonstrating improvements as a result of 'gardenesque' treatment. These images appear as figures 3 and 4 in Geddes' report to the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust 'City Development: a study of parks, gardens, and culture-institutes' (1904).

2 letters of correspondence between Patrick Geddes and G. H. Perris

Map of Havana.

This map is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

Maps and illustrations of Cyprus.

This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

Illustrations of Czechoslovakia.

This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

Photographs and maps of Denmark.

This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

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

Manuscript.

Showing the contents of each floor and the camera obscura.

Manuscript.

Handwritten draft and instruction for Whitson & Methven by Patrick Geddes, advertisement to be placed in the Scotsman newspaper, relating to the sale or feu of property at Ramsay Garden Terrace for the purpose of erecting one-storey range of educational buildings. Rear of page shows pencil drawing of unspecified architectural structure.